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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/3/2014 4:58 PM, Blair Bonnett wrote:
> On 4 November 2014 10:19, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto: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>
>> > <mailto: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 haven't tried it so I cannot comment on it.  If anyone has use a
native windows build of libgit2, please let us know if it works
reliably.  I don't want to introduce a dependency that doesn't work on
all supported platforms.

> 
>>> 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.

Darn!  It was worth a shot.

> 
>>
>> >
>> > 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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