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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/3/2014 4:09 PM, Blair Bonnett wrote:
> On 4 November 2014 09:43, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>> Before we get too far down that path, I think there is a better set of
> tools for caching
>> Github results locally--git.
>>
>> I work relatively often from airplanes or countries with poor internet
> access, so I use
>> scripts to copy stuff locally.
>>
>> To be completely honest, I have been confused as to why Dick went
> straight for a 
>> particular Git host's API, as compared to using Git itself.  Disk
> space, maybe?  
>> I am one of the users (like Bernhard, I guess) who doesn't really like
> using the 
>> Github plugin, and uses data on disk instead.  Git provides a way for
> me to quickly
>> download the new work Carl and the other library folks have done.
>>
>> If someone wants to talk about this more, I'm up for it.
> 
> I'm with you on this -- I love GitHub, but it would also be nice to use
> local Git repositories, e.g., for a set of common components that are
> stocked in our department and for which the footprints have been
> checked. Offline support via caching would also be good -- I'll admit I
> haven't played with the copy-on-write option Wayne mentions, but from
> the manual it sounds like it only saves local copies of footprints you
> edit rather than the whole library.
> 
> To this end, some time ago I was playing around with writing a basic Git
> plugin working using libgit2 [1] to interface with the repository i.e.,
> no external git executable required. At that stage I only had
> authentication-less HTTP cloning working, but libgit2 supports basic
> username + password and SSH authentication. Further down the track it
> could also support writing changes back to a repository.

I'm not opposed to adding a git plugin to Pcbnew.  It would make git a
dependency which can be problematic on Windows.  Most of the windows git
builds I have seen require msys which uses Posix like paths which could
be a problem.  You may have to translate paths on windows to make this
work correctly unless you can find a native version of git.

I wonder if you could you set up a local github server on your system
(assuming the github server software is freely available) and point the
github plugin to 127.0.0.1?  It might be an interesting experiment.

> 
> Its currently got a couple of bugs in it and is based against a rather
> old version of KiCad. I'll have a crack at rebasing and fixing those
> bugs soon -- I might get a chance tonight otherwise it may have to be
> the weekend -- and posting it here for others to try out. 
> 
> Blair
> 
> [1] https://libgit2.github.com/
> 
> 
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