Author: kkolinko
Date: Wed Jun 20 10:56:12 2012
New Revision: 1352043
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1352043&view=rev
Log:
Add answers to several frequent questions regarding the Git mirrors.
Modified:
tomcat/site/trunk/docs/svn.html
tomcat/site/trunk/xdocs/svn.xml
Modified: tomcat/site/trunk/docs/svn.html
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/site/trunk/docs/svn.html?rev=1352043&r1=1352042&r2=1352043&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- tomcat/site/trunk/docs/svn.html (original)
+++ tomcat/site/trunk/docs/svn.html Wed Jun 20 10:56:12 2012
@@ -418,6 +418,31 @@ its projects. See <a href="http://git.ap
</p>
+<p>
+<em>Several notes for the users of Git</em>:</p>
+
+
+<ol>
+
+<li>The Git repositories at <a
href="http://git.apache.org/";>http://git.apache.org/</a>
+ and their clones at GitHub are only mirrors. The official code repository
+ is the Subversion one, documented above.</li>
+
+<li>The Git mirrors do not have support for the <code>svn:externals</code>
+ property.<br>
+ A consequence of this is that the <strong>tomcat70.git</strong> repository
+ lacks the source code for the <code>jdbc-pool</code> module. The code comes
+ from certain revision of Tomcat trunk, as configured by the
+ <code>svn:externals</code> property that is set on the <code>modules</code>
+ directory.
+ To be able to build Tomcat 7, you have to get the missing source code, e.g.
+ from a source archive of a released version of Tomcat 7.</li>
+
+<li>To propose a patch, please follow general patch submission guidelines,
+ documented on the <a href="bugreport.html">Bug Database</a> page.</li>
+
+</ol>
+
</blockquote>
</p>
</td>
Modified: tomcat/site/trunk/xdocs/svn.xml
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/site/trunk/xdocs/svn.xml?rev=1352043&r1=1352042&r2=1352043&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- tomcat/site/trunk/xdocs/svn.xml (original)
+++ tomcat/site/trunk/xdocs/svn.xml Wed Jun 20 10:56:12 2012
@@ -124,6 +124,24 @@ http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat</
<p>The Apache Software Foundation provides read-only Git mirrors for
its projects. See <a href="http://git.apache.org/";>http://git.apache.org/</a>
</p>
+<p><em>Several notes for the users of Git</em>:</p>
+
+<ol>
+ <li>The Git repositories at <a
href="http://git.apache.org/";>http://git.apache.org/</a>
+ and their clones at GitHub are only mirrors. The official code repository
+ is the Subversion one, documented above.</li>
+ <li>The Git mirrors do not have support for the <code>svn:externals</code>
+ property.<br/>
+ A consequence of this is that the <strong>tomcat70.git</strong> repository
+ lacks the source code for the <code>jdbc-pool</code> module. The code comes
+ from certain revision of Tomcat trunk, as configured by the
+ <code>svn:externals</code> property that is set on the <code>modules</code>
+ directory.
+ To be able to build Tomcat 7, you have to get the missing source code, e.g.
+ from a source archive of a released version of Tomcat 7.</li>
+ <li>To propose a patch, please follow general patch submission guidelines,
+ documented on the <a href="bugreport.html">Bug Database</a> page.</li>
+</ol>
</section>
</body>
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