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

Maybe KiCad could be made to pull the new changes automatically ("git pull
https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library"; or "git fetch upstream" if it's a
fork) on startup? However this would require the libraries to be installed
in a user-writeable directory.




On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Kaspar Emanuel <kaspar.emanuel@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On 21 March 2014 08:10, Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > When you get a repo because you want to contribute (either is kicad it
> > self or the kicad lib repo) u clone the master repo, you do your
> > modifications, you create and send to developers your patch, Done.
> >
> > Few days after your patch gets applied and ideally your would like to
> > re-synch your current repo with the newest repo but it is not possible
> > because your current repo is out of synch since you did your
> > modifications locally.
>
> No, at this point you could switch your fp_lib_table to use the KiCad
> github repo for that libary or keep it pointing to your local repo as
> they should be the same. If there are additional changes in the KiCad
> repo then you can pull those changes. If you have additional changes
> since you made the patch you can make a new patch.
>
> >Maybe, some sort of intermediate tool that sits between the pcb guy
> and git is needed?
>
> I think this is a good idea. Libgit2 could help with this.
>
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