Click Git Information

Click sources are maintained in a Git repository. Most Click developers and users should rely on the Git sources, since we release Click infrequently. Git is a distributed source control management system.

Click sources on Github
Click packages sources on Github

Click classic sources
Click classic packages sources

First, download and install git, version 1.5.0 or greater. Ready-to-install packages are available for major Linux variants and for MacPorts on Mac OS X, among others. On Windows, it is probably easier to use cvs, but Windows installations are possible.

Two main Click repositories exist. The "classic" repository is generally stable and has few committers (mostly Eddie Kohler). The repository on Github has more committers and may evolve faster.

To fetch the classic Click repository into a local directory called DIR:

% git clone git://read.cs.ucla.edu/git/click DIR 

This downloads the Click sources, including complete change history, into about 37MB of disk space. Then, cd DIR and run ./configure OPTIONS and build as usual. Life will be easier if you have autoconf-2.59 or higher.

To update to the latest version checked in to the public repository, change into your working copy directory DIR and run:

% git pull

To fetch the classic Click packages:

% git clone git://read.cs.ucla.edu/git/click-packages DIR

The Github versions can be fetched as follows:

% git clone git://github.com/kohler/click.git DIR 
% git clone git://github.com/kohler/click-packages.git DIR 

You can also edit .git/config files or use git remote to set up a repository that follows both Github and classic repositories.