[tei-council] Mods for supporting git

Martin Holmes mholmes at uvic.ca
Mon Nov 24 13:16:20 EST 2014


HI Hugh,

I don't see why Jinks should break if the default behaviour hasn't 
changed, but the best way to find out is to commit it and see what 
happens. :-)

Thanks for this change, it'll be really useful.

Cheers,
Martin

On 14-11-24 10:05 AM, Hugh Cayless wrote:
>   Hi All,
>
> I’ve made some changes to the P5 Makefile and to the XSLT that uses
> svndate.xml so that it’s possible to build the Guidelines in a git repo
> without messing around with the Makefile. I’ve added a new parameter, VCS,
> that defaults to "svn", but if you use VCS=git when you run make, then it
> generates a pseudo-svn-info XML file using the git log command, and the
> process uses that to incorporate the commit and date info.
>
> My question is: will anything (like Mr. Jenkins) break horribly if I commit
> this? I’ve tested it and it works just fine locally. You can see the
> modifications here:
> https://github.com/hcayless/TEI-Guidelines/commit/361126a96250cd7cda3bb271b4b3351c1e0b69a9
>
> Thoughts? I'm poised to commit it if nobody objects.
>
> Hugh
>


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