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[Chris Morgan <chmorgan@xxxxxxxxx>]

> There is another option for people who want to use Git: a mirror. There is a
> mirror under the KiCad user account (the one with all the libraries) on
> GitHub:
>
> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror
>
> However, it usually seems to be out of date, and very sporadically updated.
> For some time, I have had a mirror under my account:
>
> https://github.com/blairbonnett-mirrors/kicad
>
> This is synchronised to the product series of the Bazaar repository every 10
> minutes by a script on my server. Any patches generated against this mirror
> should be able to be applied against the Bazaar repo quite happily.
>
> One thing that I will have a go at doing shortly is adding the bzr revision
> numbers to the commit messages in GitHub. The mirror is updated by bzr
> fast-export and git fast-import; I am not sure if this process is
> customisable but I will try to figure something out.
>
> Oh, and I would be quite happy to shift my mirror to the kicad account and
> continue to auto-update that. My concern would be more about it getting
> swamped by the number of library repos there -- it was hard to find it
> amongst the list of repos even when I knew it was there somewhere. I suppose
> if it is linked in a wiki page / website this is less of a concern.
>
> Regards,
> Blair
>

This sounds great. I'd love to have the ability to use git/github and
fork from the latest code. I suspect it would make the other git users
happy as well, assuming that is easy to get patches back over for
application on the bzr side.

Chris