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Miscellnous tips related to development.

Table of contents (hide)

1. How to license your contributions
2. How to start the debugger when using shared libaries
3. How to look at the log of a branch
1. 3.1 Directly
2. 3.2 By checking out the branch
4. Categories

1. How to license your contributions

Developers of LyX are asked to contribute under GPL version 2 or later. Please send a message to the developers' list that you agree to this, you could say something like:

I hereby grant permission to license my contributions to LyX under the Gnu General Public Licence (version two or later).

Or to be really explicit, you do like in Tommaso's post.

2. How to start the debugger when using shared libaries

To start gdb when using shared libraries, do somehing like:

libtool --mode=execute gdb lyx-devel/src/lyx-qt4

3. How to look at the log of a branch

3.1 Directly

To look at the log (all changesets?)

svn log --stop-on-copy  svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/personal/younes/mvc

3.2 By checking out the branch

To look at all changesets, including the ones before the branching point

svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/personal/younes/mvc
svn log

To look at log of changeset rev
```
svn log -r rev 
```
To look at diff of changeset rev
```
svn diff -r rev-1:rev 
```

4. Categories

Category: Development, Tips