Re: [Rd] best way to build from Git

2019-12-31 Thread frederik
Thank you all for your replies. On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 01:06:48PM +, Gábor Csárdi wrote: On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 12:39 PM Martin Maechler ... It would probably really be useful, if Lionel (or someone else) updated his nice write-up and auxiliary {script / make} - files so things work too w

Re: [Rd] best way to build from Git

2019-12-26 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 26/12/2019 7:38 a.m., Martin Maechler wrote: Gábor Csárdi on Thu, 26 Dec 2019 08:23:10 + writes: > 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 T

Re: [Rd] best way to build from Git

2019-12-26 Thread Gábor Csárdi
On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 12:39 PM Martin Maechler wrote: [...] > As Frederik notes / ask as well about it: > R-core people typically never build "inside the source tree" > (not "polluting" the source tree by built stuff) > but rather in separate build directory, as I'm pretty sure we've > recommend

Re: [Rd] best way to build from Git

2019-12-26 Thread Martin Maechler
> Gábor Csárdi > on Thu, 26 Dec 2019 08:23:10 + writes: > 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 Thank you, Gabor, and notably, Lionel, for p

Re: [Rd] best way to build from Git

2019-12-26 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 25/12/2019 8:37 p.m., 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 abl

Re: [Rd] best way to build from Git

2019-12-26 Thread Gábor Csárdi
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 wrote: > > Dear R-devel, > > I checked out a recent copy of R via Subversion and made a few changes to the

[Rd] best way to build from Git

2019-12-25 Thread frederik
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