[PATCH] dim: Update getting started

Jani Nikula jani.nikula at intel.com
Tue Sep 3 08:36:19 UTC 2019


On Tue, 03 Sep 2019, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> We expect a clone now since
>
> commit 2e9ddb93dac994c7367d2e44d7939c63f780f240
> Author: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
> Date:   Fri Jan 11 14:36:48 2019 +0200
>
>     dim: don't setup maintainer-tools as aux checkout
>
> But somehow the getting started pages haven't been updated.
>
> Cc: Ayan Halder <Ayan.Halder at arm.com>
> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>

Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>


> ---
>  getting-started.rst | 12 ++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/getting-started.rst b/getting-started.rst
> index 5d4ce9c1991e..ea672497982d 100644
> --- a/getting-started.rst
> +++ b/getting-started.rst
> @@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ There's also a sample config file for ~/.dimrc::
>  
>      https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/maintainer-tools/raw/master/dimrc.sample
>  
> +The recommended way to setup dim is to simply clone it::
> +
> +    $ cd $DIM_PREFIX # defaults to ~/.src, or whatever you've set in your .dimrc
> +    $ git clone git at gitlab.freedesktop.org:drm/maintainer-tools.git
> +
>  Plus, there's bash completion in the same directory if you feel like using that.
>  Run::
>  
> @@ -23,10 +28,9 @@ your .dimrc to match your setup and then run::
>  
>      $ dim setup
>  
> -This will also check out the latest maintainer-tools branches, so please replace
> -the dim you just downloaded with a symlink after this step. And by the way, if
> -you have improvements for dim, see `contributing
> -<dim.html#contributing-bug-reports-and-discussion>`_.
> +This expects that you have the maintainer-tools already checked out in
> +$DIM_PREFIX/maintainer-tools. And by the way, if you have improvements for dim,
> +see `contributing <dim.html#contributing-bug-reports-and-discussion>`_.
>  
>  If you have a freedesktop.org account and plan to push things on one of the
>  drm-xxx repos, you should use the ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/drm-xxx urls

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center


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