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[Blair Bonnett <blair.bonnett@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4 November 2014 10:19, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.

libgit2 claims to build with zero dependencies for both MinGW and native
Windows builds. I'll be interested to see how it works in reality.

>> 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.

Unfortunately their software is not freely available -- they do sell an
enterprise version, but thats a little out of my price range. Assuming the
github plugin doesn't hardcode any URLs then I imagine it would work with
an enterprise install since the API etc should be the same.

>
> >
> > 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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