Following Libreoffice development

On the exciting and successful Hackfest 2011 one question that came up was how even non-developers can easily follow what is cooking in development. Luckily, with the migration to OneGit that got a lot easier:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/
shows what is currently being worked on and changed in master. To follow the development locally (and even offline), one can:
do (after installing git) on the commandline:
    git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core && cd core
to get the repository and then:
    git log
to see what changes recently happened in the project. If one commit is of particular interest a:
    git show <commit-id>
shows details about that commit. Later, one can update the repository with
    git pull
to download the latest changes. For pull and clone one has to be online, but not for log and show.
In addition, there are the tools gitg and gitk with make all this available with a nice browsable graphical user interface.

This was originally published at 2011-09-05 20:52:00/2011-09-05 18:52:41 on livejournal.