summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/doc/git-howto.texi
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorAndreas Cadhalpun <Andreas.Cadhalpun@googlemail.com>2015-11-25 00:52:39 +0100
committerAndreas Cadhalpun <Andreas.Cadhalpun@googlemail.com>2015-12-02 20:39:18 +0100
commitfb1bf4454e6e8d70c001969c0e423399235d3224 (patch)
tree14917a72dff73963a0de60c12375042c2511edc0 /doc/git-howto.texi
parentbc517be6b0fb276997e431ae7708b2d1681d1aff (diff)
downloadffmpeg-fb1bf4454e6e8d70c001969c0e423399235d3224.tar.gz
git-howto: mention how to clone ffmpeg-web
Signed-off-by: Andreas Cadhalpun <Andreas.Cadhalpun@googlemail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/git-howto.texi')
-rw-r--r--doc/git-howto.texi15
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/git-howto.texi b/doc/git-howto.texi
index bf37bcced4..e5e3c81795 100644
--- a/doc/git-howto.texi
+++ b/doc/git-howto.texi
@@ -65,6 +65,21 @@ git clone git@@source.ffmpeg.org:ffmpeg <target>
This will put the FFmpeg sources into the directory @var{<target>} and let
you push back your changes to the remote repository.
+@example
+git clone gil@@ffmpeg.org:ffmpeg-web <target>
+@end example
+
+This will put the source of the FFmpeg website into the directory
+@var{<target>} and let you push back your changes to the remote repository.
+(Note that @var{gil} stands for GItoLite and is not a typo of @var{git}.)
+
+If you don't have write-access to the ffmpeg-web repository, you can
+create patches after making a read-only ffmpeg-web clone:
+
+@example
+git clone git://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-web <target>
+@end example
+
Make sure that you do not have Windows line endings in your checkouts,
otherwise you may experience spurious compilation failures. One way to
achieve this is to run