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[Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, Dick renamed them all yesterday.


On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> A repository owner will want his copy-on-write directory to be the git
> working directory, so that the updates to the libraries can be pushed
> easily. Having the repositories ending in ".pretty" would make the default
> folder naming during the git clone match the requirement.
>
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> On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Povilas Kanapickas <povilas@xxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> 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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