>I wanted to locally build a newer tesseract package of upstreams current SVN
What's wrong with uupdate? It took me about five minutes to build today's 3.02.02 point release. >May I help you setting up a git repo? Sounds scary. I'm comfortable with the current setup; will I get confused going to git? If so, probably not worth it. For reference, I found quilt to be a little challenging. -Jeff
