[VTK ARB] git checkouts

[Jeff Baumes]

Thanks for the comments. Marcus, could you integrate these suggestions
into the wiki pages?

Thanks,
Jeff

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Andrew Maclean <a.maclean at cas.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi All,
> Following up on our April meeting.
>
> I have been following the "New git commit hooks" thread and decided to
> checkout the git repositories for vtk and ParaView using the
> instructions in the wikis.
>
> The VTK instructions in (http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Git) are very easy
> to follow and very clear. I like the comment "All further commands work
> inside the local copy of the repository created by the clone:" this
> makes it really clear to novice users.
>
> For ParaView (http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Git),  whoever wrote
> this has captured the additional complexity of using submodules very
> clearly. One tiny thing that I can suggest is to put in a comment like
> in the vtk one metioning that the following instructions should be done
> in the ParaView repository. Also there are two Submodules headings (1.3)
> and (2) which confused me a little because I didn't look at the contents
> section.
>
> Once again congratulations to the people (Brad et. al.) who wrote these
> instructions.
>
> I haven committed anything and I haven't tried these instructions in
> Windows but I see no problems there.
>
>
> Regards
>  Andrew
>
>
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