[ Dekstop Help ] First Contributions - Lesson Learned

Doug Smythies dsmythies at telus.net
Sun Jan 12 16:02:36 UTC 2014


Herein, I am just commenting on something that was left
out from the IRC stuff on this:

On 2014.01.12 06:59 Stephen M. Webb wrote:
On 01/12/2014 04:35 AM, Greg Beam wrote:

> Why not check out once and copy?  Because in the mean time someone
> could have checked in changes to lp:ubuntu-docs and
> you would be working from a stale branch.

Yes, but gnome said to always do a "bzr pull" on your
local "base" directory before the copy step such that
it is always up to date.

> If you need to reduce bandwidth, you can use --lightweight to
> not copy history.

Yes, a very good point.





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