git vlc versions

[ramsiva]

how do i git vlc source version 2.0.0. I have a virtual box installed on my windws 7 pc. the VB has ubuntu 11.10 as my guest OS.
I tried, git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git -- This downloads the latest vesion as of date, VLC 2.1.0.
I tried, git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc/vlc-2.0.git -- this downloads version 2.0.1.
So the same way i tried,
git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc/vlc-2.0.0.git to download vlc2.0.0. But FAILED, saying remote error: access denied or repository not exported.

i guess, vlc 2.0.0 is the latest official release as of today.

So how do i do it?

[nkoriyama]

Get tarballs from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-sources.html.
Or using the following command like:

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git checkout 2.0.0

on the top of the source tree from git://git.videolan.org/vlc/vlc-2.0.git.

[ramsiva]

since i am completely new to git and linux environment, can you please give me step by step instructions how to checkout starting from my $HOME directory?

[nkoriyama]

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% git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc/vlc-2.0.git % cd vlc-2.0 % git checkout 2.0.0

C'est tout!

[ramsiva]

thanks nkoriyama,
that worked finally. i was able to git the version i wanted and I built it.
Another question that's bogging me, I downloaded source tarball from videolan.org. Then when I tried to run bootstrap from contrib/win32 directory like in the webpage, http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32Compile.

$ mkdir -p contrib/win32
$ cd contrib/win32
$ ../bootstrap --host=i586-mingw32msvc
$ make prebuilt
Here ../bootstrap did not work saying "../bootstrap must be executed from the subdirectory". I dont know why it did not work, where as version from git downloads, worked perfectly fine.

Thanks

[nkoriyama]

I cannot advice to your question because I don't know what you did exactly.

According to your post, you could compile VLC from the source.
It seems no problem remains.