From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2020 06:27:59 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jun 2020, #01; Wed, 3)
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD3O=+FyY4TrwjDdwGBAEEK1QPPzMZ0WSEL8UM_cecBgoQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <8e479e02-81c5-6329-ff1f-304b1cd4e292@gmail.com>

On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 4:53 PM Kaartic Sivaraam
<kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 04-06-2020 20:02, Christian Couder wrote:

> > Then there
> > is the issue of making it easier to build Git and to understand and
> > fix build issues.
>
> Yeah, that would be nice. As a first step we could link to steps for
> building Git from the hypothetical article about the '-rc'.
> The "Install Dependencies" section of MyFirstContribution is
> an option[1].
>
> [1]: https://git-scm.com/docs/MyFirstContribution#dependencies

A related issue (https://github.com/git/git.github.io/issues/435) was
opened recently about https://git.github.io/ not helping with
debugging Git, so there is a new page to try to help with this. You
can see it at:

https://git.github.io/Hacking-Git/

and:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/Hacking-Git.md