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Hi all

I do look at all the new posts regarding new builds provided by a host of members on this forum and cannot believe how quick everyone seems to be providing new ISO's to test out.

I know that Woof-CE is on GitHub and I wanted to know if there was an application that I could use?

I did see a post in the Development section re: SmartGit and a Pet/SFS has been kindly provided.

viewtopic.php?p=62517&hilit=smartgit#p62517

If I wanted to get involved, what do I need to install to begin?

a smartgit sfs is also in the repo for easyos
https://bkhome.org/news/202209/smartgit ... eated.html
git may also be in your devx.sfs
are you asking for advice about what to do after you make an account at github?

Hi Williamw

Thanks for your reply.

LOL, I didn't know it is/could be included in my DevX (FossaPup64-95).

I have never used it before or nor know how to invoke it.

So far, I always download the source zipped files and then proceed from there.

............ need to setup an account with GitHub

I also use Sourceforge and they use SVN (?).

Is there an application for this too?

Is there an application for this too?

dunno

I was curious about what you were hoping to to next cause I am new to working with github also and following the topic with interest.

downloading apps doesn't need an account, but having an account is necessary to contribute to someone else's project.

The EasyOS devx sfs has git, svn and mercurial.
From when I was involved with the pups, devx sfs had git and svn.
Other pup users would have to tell what is in the current devx sfs's

I posted some notes about configuring SmartGit, that others might find useful:

https://bkhome.org/news/202211/openembe ... ithub.html

Although i created a sfs, didn't use it. Just downloaded the tarball and expanded it and configured it to run as "portable"

Note, you probably don't need the devx, as smartgit has git builtin

I recommend VS Code (or VSCodium), GitHub's web editor (see https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/w ... ibutor-101) or https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/w ... ing-gitpod.

I uploaded a post here about using git and github. Might be a good start if you want to dive into the world of git.

Other wise, if you don't want to spend time learning git commands and/or use a GUI, the you can directly edit your repositories' contents from github. Do this:-

1. Go to your github repo.

2. Click on Code button.

3. Click on Codespaces tab in the opened menu.

4. Click on + sign.

This will create a new github workspace, with editor much like VSCode.

Next time you can directly access that same codespace.

Note that just making changes wouldn't make them available in the github repo. You'll have to commit the changes as well.

For more info read this. But you'll want to consider the charges as well- https://docs.github.com/en/billing/mana ... l-accounts.

So instead you might want to make changes to github from VSCode (set-up on your PC) directly. This seems to be a great tutorial, that too by VSCode itself.

Thank you all for your replies.
I can see a lot of reading ahead of me.
I will the tutorials posted already before I take my first steps.