Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Downgrading my dev environment

[Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 09-08-16 19:06, Paul Offord wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I’ve develop two dissectors as a prelude to tacking the conversion of the
> TRANSUM LUA to a C version.  In my enthusiasm (and laziness) I just did a git
> pull of the latest code from the repository.  I’d like to build the TRANSUM code
> against the latest release rather than against dev code.  I use VS 2013.  My
> plan is:
> 
>  
> 
> ·        Backup the the two dissector projects I have created, which I guess
> just means making copies of the plugin source directories
> 
> ·        Deleting my present Wireshark dev environment
> 
> ·        Do a git pull for the correct code (i.e. 2.0.5)
> 
> ·        Copy the plugin directories back to the correct place
> 
> ·        Add Existing the two plugin projects
> 
>  
> 
> Is that correct?  Is there a better way?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks and regards…Paul
> 

Hi,

You might want to familiarize yourself a bit with Git (eg through this excellent
book https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2). Have a look at 'git checkout' in this
case. You give it a branch to checkout, and since you're looking at the latest
release that would be 'master-2.0'.

Thanks,
Jaap