X-Git-Url: http://git.tdb.fi/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=35c9c6913b5eda0422f0407f94f83b26ba3ecbaf;hb=e1171a57a76c1f3277c54bcc48a9fe6c29b741ec;hp=0ff77c375e82c7957b9c8c935498a9934698c065;hpb=f8e39675cccd01b4b76d88b0f9bef922fce3e8f3;p=ext%2Fsubsurface.git diff --git a/README b/README index 0ff77c3..35c9c69 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -4,20 +4,38 @@ I'm tired of java programs that don't work etc. License: GPLv2 -You need libxml2-devel and gtk2-devel to build this. +You need libxml2-devel, gtk2-devel and GConf2-devel to build this. + +You also need to have libdivecomputer installed, which goes something like this: + + git clone git://libdivecomputer.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/libdivecomputer/libdivecomputer + cd libdivecomputer + autoreconf --install + ./configure + make + sudo make install Usage: make - ./divelog dives/*.xml + ./subsurface dives/*.xml to see my dives (with no notes or commentary). -There's a lot of duplicates in there, and divelog will de-duplicate the -ones that are exactly the same (just because they were imported multiple -times). But at least two of the dives have duplicates that were edited -by Dirk in the Suunto Dive Manager, so they don't trigger the "exact -duplicates" match. +Or, if you have a dive computer supported by libdivecomputer (and +connected to /dev/ttyUSB0), you can just do + + make + ./subsurface + +and select "Import" from the File menu, tell it what dive computer you +have, and hit "OK". + +There's a lot of duplicates in the XML files that come as an example, +and subsurface will de-duplicate the ones that are exactly the same +(just because they were imported multiple times). But at least two of +the dives have duplicates that were edited by Dirk in the Suunto Dive +Manager, so they don't trigger the "exact duplicates" match. WARNING! I wasn't kidding when I said that I've done this by reading gtk2 tutorials as I've gone along. If somebody is more comfortable with @@ -38,3 +56,35 @@ my divemaster course, so they are from following open water students along (many of them the confined*water dives). There a lot of the action is at the surface, so some of the "dives" are 4ft deep and 2min long. + +Contributing: + +Please either send me signed-off patches or a pull request with +signed-off commits. If you don't sign off on them, I will not accept +them. This means adding a line that says "Signed-off-by: Name " +at the end of each commit, indicating that you wrote the code and have +the right to pass it on as an open source patch. + +See: http://gerrit.googlecode.com/svn/documentation/2.0/user-signedoffby.html + +Also, please write good git commit messages. A good commit message +looks like this: + + header line: explaining the commit in one line + + Body of commit message is a few lines of text, explaining things + in more detail, possibly giving some background about the issue + being fixed, etc etc. + + The body of the commit message can be several paragrahps, and + please do proper word-wrap and keep columns shorter than about + 74 characters or so. That way "git log" will show things + nicely even when it's indented. + + Reported-by: whoever-reported-it + Signed-off-by: Your Name + +where that header line really should be meaningful, and really should be +just one line. That header line is what is shown by tools like gitk and +shortlog, and should summarize the change in one readable line of text, +independently of the longer explanation.