xf86-video-radeonhd pushed.

Felipe Contreras felipe.contreras at gmail.com
Wed Sep 19 08:29:46 PDT 2007


On 9/19/07, Sean <seanlkml at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:57:43 +0100
> "Igor Mozolevsky" <igor at hybrid-lab.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > > git clone
> > > http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd/
> >
> > Why not just dump it into  ftp.x.org/pub/individual/driver for those who
> > just want the file without the added hassle of protocol on top of protocol
> > on top of N other protocols wrappers?  Problems are always simple - there's
> > no need to reinvent the wheel just because some guy feels like doing
> > something different for a year...
> >
>
> No idea what you're trying to say, but there's no need to use ftp to download
> the files from above.  Git clone over http would work fine if the repository
> was created properly.  And even though it's not set up properly in this case,
> it's pretty easy to grab over http _anyway_ with something like:
>
> $ mkdir radeonhd
> $ cd radeonhd
> $ git init
> $ lftp -e "mirror . .git" \
>     http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd
> $ git checkout

Well, it seems it's not "properly" set up.

The trick you mentioned works...

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Thanks.

-- 
Felipe Contreras



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