git clone --recursive https://...

[Roger Pate]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 11:51 AM Dr Rainer Woitok
<rainer.woitok at gmail.com> wrote:
> to build another project I need Boost version 1.60 or better.   However,
> Ubuntu 16.04 (which I'm still using)  only provides Boost 1.58.   In the
> past I solved similar problems by simply running
>
>    git clone -n https://... xxx && hg convert -s git -d hg xxx yyy
>
> and by then compiling the required version  of a dependency myself.  But

Why do you need to convert the repository from git to hg in order to
compile and use it?