Re: libsvn_ra_git [was: svn commit: r1583639 [1/3] - ...]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com>wrote:

> Stefan Sperling wrote:
>
> >> URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1583639
> >> Log:
> >> Create the ra-git branch: git repository access for Suversion
> >
> > For those who are going to test/review this:
> >
> > I forgot to mention that we currently use libgit-0.20.0 as our base.
> > A different version of libgit2 might not work as expected.
> >
> > Building libgit2 is a breeze, by the way. It has a very portable
> > cmake-based build system and no externals dependencies (except
> > libssh, but that isn't yet supported by ra-git anyway).
>
> Very cool!
>
> I committed a couple of tweaks to the 'build.conf' file to help it build
> on Linux (I'm using Ubuntu 12.04). For the record, I built and installed
> libgit2 like this:
>
>
Did you guys run this by legal@?

libgit2 is GPLv2 licensed. I know they claim to support permissive linking
and that should be the end of it, but ASF legal might still want to weigh
in.

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Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/