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Re: Github Library repositories

 

On 12/01/2013 11:45 PM, Carl Poirier wrote:
> OK, actually, I had not understood all of the copy-on-write
> functionality of the GITHUB_PLUGIN, which Dick committed very recently.
>  Some information about it can be read here
> <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kicad-testing-committers/kicad/testing/view/head:/pcbnew/github/github_plugin.h#L33>.
> 
> Actually, we would need the repositories to end in ".pretty". This will
> indicate at the same time that it's a pretty library, so no need for a
> prefix.
> 

Looking at the code it seems that only local directories must have the
.pretty suffix. There are no requirements on github repository names. In
fact, they are not parsed in any way except to build an URL to fetch the
contents of a repository.

Regards,
Povilas



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