[josm-dev] Git mirror of JOSM on GitHub

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

Thats great, I will test build it.

I have been dreaming last night about compiling josm with the GNU Java Compiler:
http://gcc.gnu.org/java/

will see how that works out

mike

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab at gmail.com> wrote:
> I got tired of waiting for `svn up' when rebuilding JOSM and wanted to
> commit some local patches. So I made a Git mirror of JOSM that I and
> others can use. It's very handy for getting faster updates, a local
> history and the ability to patch JOSM without SVN write access:
>
>    http://github.com/avar/josm
>
> It's made with `git-svn`. It has two branches, the master branch is
> unaltered from git-svn and can be used to bootstrap from git-svn[1]:
>
>    http://github.com/avar/josm/tree/master
>
> The second one is the mirror branch. This one is checked out by
> default and includes all the svn externals plus this hack to get it to
> build under Git:
>
>    http://github.com/avar/josm
>    http://github.com/avar/josm/commit/f5f16565e
>
> It would be nice if the core build.xml supported getting the revision
> from the git history if applicable, but my ant fu didn't suffice to
> make this happen.
>
> Finally this is the script that does the mirroring:
>
>    http://github.com/avar/josm-mirror
>
> It runs through cron every 30 minutes and hits the
> josm.openstreetmap.org server with `git svn fetch`. I can adjust the
> frequency if the server admins think this is too much.
>
> 1. Example of git-svn bootstrapping:
> http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/git-svn-tutorial
>
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