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>
 
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