From 581f8137052db60d072ee5a4cefdf7292cddab05 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bryce Harrington Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 23:54:49 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] HACKING: Add link to git tutorial and wordsmith a bit --- HACKING | 18 ++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING index 752efbab2..aba2c545b 100644 --- a/HACKING +++ b/HACKING @@ -73,9 +73,9 @@ We use /git/ for version control. See: http://cairographics.org/download/ -TODO: -Add links to some git tutorials or better, write a few paragraphs -about how to use git to efficiently hack on cairo. +For more information on using git, see: + + http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Infrastructure/git/ Build System @@ -103,10 +103,9 @@ No manual ChangeLog writing is necessary. Copyrights and Licensing ------------------------ -The cairo library is dual-licensed under LGPL and MPL. See file named -COPYING for details. The test suites are more liberal. For example, -GPL code is allowed in the test suites, though it's always better to -keep things simple. +The cairo library is dual-licensed under LGPL and MPL. See the file +named COPYING for details. The test suites are more liberal, and are +allowed to include GPL code. When writing new code, update the file headers to add your (or your employers) copyright line and contributor line. If adding new files @@ -174,9 +173,8 @@ Some of those should gradually be moved to doc/. Utilities --------- -There are a few useful utilities we have developed that are either -useful when writing code using cairo, or writing cairo, or useful in -general. These tools can be found under the util/ directory. +We have developed several utilities useful for writing cairo or code +that uses cairo. These tools can be found under the util/ directory. See util/README for more information.