Hi,

I am trying to build the current version (7.8.3) of boinc client on Windows 10 instead of the latest prerelease 7.9.0. So I need to use tag.

I'm new to git. I installed git for Windows 2.15.1.2 and set up with bash commandline version. "git clone <url> boinc" works fine, but when it comes to tag, git doesn't work as mentioned in the guide.

I tried to set-url as the guide page (https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/SourceCodeGit) says:

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/BOINC/boinc

but git says

Fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directries): .git

I tried

git help remote set-url

then, Edge opened and showed a help page, but there's no option "origin". All I can see is
git remote set-url --add <name> <newurl>
and
git remote set-url --delete <name> <url>

I suspect it's due to the version of git (mine is 2.15 while the guide uses 1.7.6). Anyway I have no idea what comes to <name>.

How can I set remote url?

Thanks in advance.

-Tetsuji

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-Tetsuji Maverick Rai
aka Weapon of Mass Distraction

Speaking personally, I've always used the Windows GUI git tools, but command line principles should be the same.

If you've cloned BOINC, you already have everything - master, all branches, all tags. From there, I export the code for tag 7.8.3 (or whatever), which gives me a single .zip file containing the code as at that version only. Then, I expand the zip into a new, separate, folder tree from where I can build, test modifications or anything else. Getting fixes back into the github source is another question entirely.

Edit - should have said. v7.8.3 is a bit of a dog's breakfast, and is missing a lot of bugfixes which should have been included - you'll find a pull request from me (#2065) attempting to identify the fixes which were missed. Conversely, master (and hence 7.9.0) contains a lot of new development code which has never been tested: it doesn't surprise me it's broken. Best of luck.