From: Ian Lynagh Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 22:08:12 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Update README to talk about git rather than darcs X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?p=ghc-hetmet.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=88e9830e959786e06686c3b700081c2ea5a3abfd;hp=6552d9fcee9dcd676ae45896e7f4486d8a95b566 Update README to talk about git rather than darcs --- diff --git a/README b/README index 72a9609..e0727cb 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -27,35 +27,18 @@ There are two ways to get a source tree: which contains GHC itself and the "boot" libraries. - 2. Check out the source code from darcs - --------------------------------------- + 2. Check out the source code from git + ------------------------------------- - The recommended way to get a darcs checkout is to start off by - downloading a snapshot with a name like: + First get the GHC git repository: - ghc-HEAD-2009-09-09-ghc-corelibs-testsuite.tar.bz2 - - from: - - http://darcs.haskell.org/ - - and then untar it and bring it up-to-date with: - - $ cd ghc - $ ./darcs-all get - - - Alternatively you can use darcs to get the repos, but it will take a - lot longer. First get the GHC darcs repository: - - $ darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc/ + $ git clone http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc.git/ Then run the darcs-all script in that repository to get the other repositories: $ cd ghc - $ chmod +x darcs-all - $ ./darcs-all get + $ ./sync-all get This checks out the "boot" packages.