HACKING: Add link to git tutorial and wordsmith a bit

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Bryce Harrington 2015-03-06 23:54:49 -08:00 committed by Bryce Harrington
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@ -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.