Re: [png-mng-implement] Compiling libpng with Windows CE 6

[Brandon C. <ca...@nr...>]

Glenn Randers-Pehrson wrote:
> There is a move afoot to put everything in a "git" repository but I don't
> think that is going to help much (but it might).  I have the "git"
> repository ready to go, once someone sets up a "git" daemon

It's possible to serve the repository using simple http. So if you want
to put it out there as a work-in-progress repo that is possible.

The repo _is_ the .git directory. So you just copy the .git directory in your
repo to libpng.git somewhere on the web site.

If you haven't already done so, you probably want to run 'git gc' to pack all
loose objects first. There are a few things that should be done to minimize
the download size for http clients, but as a work-in-progress repo, I wouldn't
worry about them now. (what I'm talking about here is related to packs, and
avoiding the situation where git clients using dumb http have to download the
entire repo every time they update because the whole repo is in a single pack
file).

Then a client can do for example:

git clone http://www.libpng.org/libpng.git my_libpng_repo

Also, I agree with Bob, that regardless of public access, "version control"
is surely a good thing. I'm hoping it will make things easier for Glenn
including the 1.4.x re-sync.

Admittedly, I haven't looked at the 1.4 branch, but ideally, you want to get
to the point where you can pull updates and bug fixes from the 1.2 branch
into the 1.4 branch. i.e. 'git pull . v1.2' from the v1.4 branch

-brandon