Erlang Source via Git 终于可以即使获取代码了

Erlang Source via Git     2008-08-01

From the erlang-questions mailing list:

    “I find Matthew Foemmel’s http://github.com/mfoemmel/erlang-otp/tree git repository to be very handy for browsing the OTP source, working out when features were added (the history goes back to R6B-0) and so on. Erlang/OTP packaging for debian/macports/… is much easier to track
    against this repository too.

Thanks to Geoff Cant for pointing this out. I wonder what would happen if people started submitting patches to this tree? Hmmm…..

这般老头也是固执，我们都等这么久了。。。

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2 楼 mryufeng 2008-08-04  

可惜不是官方的。。。

1 楼 mryufeng 2008-08-04  

I wrote a little script the other day to download all of the Erlang/OTP source releases that were available at erlang.org, and stick them in a single git repository. I've uploaded it to GitHub, if anyone's interested:

http://github.com/mfoemmel/erlang-otp/tree/master

I found out after the fact that archaelus had done something similar, and has a git repository hosted here:

http://git.erlang.geek.nz/?p=erlang-otp.git;a=summary

The main difference between the two is that the one at GitHub includes releases going a lot further back (R6B-0 vs R11B-5) - which is good if you're curious about how Erlang has evolved over time, but also means the repository is that much bigger when it comes time to do a clone (Erlang includes a bunch of binary files in their "source" releases, which don't seem to compress very well). Archaelus also includes a few 3rd party patchsets in his repository, which may be of interest.

The nice thing about GitHub, however, is that it makes it really easy for anyone to branch a project and make changes, and then make those changes available to everyone else (who can then merge them back into their own branches, and so on). Maybe this could help open up the Erlang development process a bit?