See below please.

On 1 November 2012 17:15, Ariel Constenla-Haile <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 11:47:18AM -0400, Rob Weir wrote:
> > Sure, not a problem.  If at all possible, it is a good practice to
> > grab the source from Subversion, to a genuine local working copy, and
> > then post your changes, including additions, as a diff file.
> >
> > See:
> http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/svn-basics.html#creating_and_submitting_patches
> >
> > Give it a try,  All the cool contributors use Subversion ;-)
>
> Two advices before Jan gives it a try:
>
> - make sure you have enough space, the whole checkout is circa 9 GB,
>   besides the website gets "compiled", ca. 5 GB more
>
I have about 3 Tb, so that is not the problem, download seems to more of an
issue. Apache dont like me hanging in there for hours downloading.


>
> - Subversion really sucks, I would recommend to work with git-svn,
>   specially with a repo this size
>
Due to a hint from Juergen (for AOO source), I am already doing that.

But big THANKS for your advice.


>
>
> Regards
> --
> Ariel Constenla-Haile
> La Plata, Argentina
>

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