2012/2/1 Michael Ströder <mich...@stroeder.com>
> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>
>> --On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 1:40 PM +0100 Michael Ströder
>> <mich...@stroeder.com> wrote:
>>
>> Nick Milas wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 1/2/2012 12:19 μμ, Emmanuel Lecharny wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Any direction on how to test the build and to check out the branch in
>>>>> order to run the tests ?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Can someone provide a current source code (2.4 Branch) build as a .tgz?
>>>>
>>>> Or, can someone provide directions on how we can do it from OpenLDAP git
>>>> repository? (This would be a more complex scenario.)
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not an git expert. But here's what I did following some git
>>> cookbooks:
>>>
>>> $ mkdir /tmp/openldap-git
>>> $ cd /tmp/openldap-git
>>> $ git clone
>>> git://git.openldap.org/**openldap.git<http://git.openldap.org/openldap.git>
>>> $ cd openldap
>>>
>>> You now have a clone of the whole repository including all branches with
>>> the default branch set to 'master'. You have to switch the active branch
>>> to RE24.
>>>
>>
>> I find this a little simpler:
>>
>> git archive --format=tar
>> --remote=git-master.openldap.**org:~git/git/openldap.git
>> OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4
>>
>
> Yes, that's simpler.
>
> Maybe the page
> http://www.openldap.org/**software/repo.html<http://www.openldap.org/software/repo.html>should
> contain a description like this or the table in section "Useful
> Branches and Tags" on that page should contain links like the one posted by
> Marco? This could lead to more people actually testing pre-releases in the
> RE24 branch.
>
+1
Actually this has been my biggest obstacle to give a contribute to the
project.
As an example, consider also that in my corp cvs/git protocols are not
available through the internet. Web is the only way...
Marco
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