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be more specific about required install of SCM environment
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@@ -40,10 +40,8 @@ Offical page of the project is on:
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http://tomcat.apache.org/
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* Exuberant Ctags
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http://ctags.sourceforge.net/
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* Subversion 1.3.0 or later if SVN support is needed
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http://subversion.tigris.org/
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* Mercurial 0.9.3 or later if Mercurial support is needed
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http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/
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* Source Code Management installation
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depending on type of repositories indexed
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* If you want to build OpenGrok:
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- Ant (1.8 and later)
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http://ant.apache.org/
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or sychronization of the source code with its origin. This is to be done by
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the user or automatic scripts.
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It is possible for some SCM systems to use a remote repository (Subversion,
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CVS), but this is not recommended due to the performance penalty. Special
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option when running the OpenGrok indexer is needed to enable remote repository
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support ("-r on").
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It is possible for SCM systems which are not distributed (Subversion, CVS)
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to use a remote repository but this is not recommended due to the performance
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penalty. Special option when running the OpenGrok indexer is needed to enable
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remote repository support ("-r on").
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In order for history indexing to work for any SCM system it is necessary
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to have environment for given SCM systems installed and in a path accessible
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by OpenGrok.
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Note that OpenGrok ignores symbolic links.
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