Yep, I do have email notification on its brilliant
I will make roughly weekly alpha releases on sourceforge, making a release for every git would take too much time and I want to make at least some regression testing and documentation updates and improvements for each alpha.
On Git:
First of all you can use webgit at
http://trac-git.assembla.com/fpdb/browser. However you would have to open each changed file, scroll to the bottom, select original format, then save.
To get git for gentoo just do emerge git -av
To get it for Windows go to
http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list
There's a bunch of instructions at
http://www.assembla.com/spaces/fpdb/trac_git_tool
For example, to pull the git tree just create a new directory (lets say ~/fpdb/ ) and type:
git clone git://git.assembla.com/fpdb.git
then you make your changes and run git-add--interactive from ~/fpdb/
now press u and and enter. It'll list any changed files. Assuming you want to commit all changes just press * and enter twice.
If you added any files press a and enter, then the number of the added file. then press enter again to return to the "main screen".
now press q and enter to quit git-add.
i keep my commit message in since_last_commit.txt (don't add this file with git-add though) so to commit you'd run:
git-commit -F since_last_commit.txt
I haven't checked yet how to use git to "create a patch" so in the meantime theres two options:
- just zip (or rar or tbz2 or whatever) up the entire directory and email it to me
- get your own public git tree to commit to, for example at
http://repo.or.cz/ Then I could just pull from your tree.
Any questions just post again, I'll add this to git-instructions at some point