Hi Frederick, I know some non R-core people use this workflow to keep local patches in git branches: https://bookdown.org/lionel/contributing/
Best, Gabor On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 1:37 AM <frede...@ofb.net> wrote: > > Dear R-devel, > > I checked out a recent copy of R via Subversion and made a few changes to the > code. I wanted to commit them locally to my repo, just to stay organized and > keep them separate from other changes I plan to make. However, I was not able > to commit them because I don't think SVN allows this? > > Plan B, check out a Git mirror of R, https://github.com/wch/r-source/ > > It has some instructions for building: https://github.com/wch/r-source/wiki > > However, there are some complicated workarounds due to a commit from 2013 > (https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/4f13e5325dfbcb9fc8f55fc6027af9ae9c7750a3). > And it only seems to succeed if the build directory is the same as the > source directory. > > Makefile.in has some odd stuff that might be related, like why is it checking > for "$(srcdir)/doc/FAQ" rather than "$(top_builddir)/doc/FAQ"? Conversely, > there is a check for "$(top_builddir)/.git" which I would expect to be in > "$(srcdir)/.git" instead. And it runs "git svn info" which seems to take > indefinitely long - I am not using "git svn", I'm just trying to build from a > regular git repo. This is difficult to debug because it is inside an @if, so > "make -n" still runs it. Also there are no comments to explain what e.g. the > "svnonly" target is doing, or anything else. > > After some time I still have little idea why it is necessary for the build > system to depend on the revision control system. Clearly we are trying to do > something fancy, but why not e.g. just failover to "Last Changed Date: > unknown; not SVN" if SVN-REVISION is missing? > > I am wondering if there is any plan to clean up this situation because it > seems like a stumbling block for users who might want to contribute to R. > > Thanks, > > Frederick > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
