Helping to Maintain/Improve FFmpeg for Debian
Git usage
Here is how to get ffmpeg from both the Debian Multimedia team's git repository and from FFmpeg's official git repository.
Clone the repository.
git clone https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-multimedia/ffmpeg.git
You may also want to checkout some important branches as well.
cd ffmpeg-debian git checkout -b pristine-tar origin/pristine-tar git checkout -b upstream origin/upstream git checkout -b upstream.unstripped origin/upstream.unstripped git checkout -b master.unstripped origin/master.unstripped
Next add the FFmpeg git repository to the list of tracked repositories
git remote add ffmpeg git://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg git fetch ffmpeg
Create a branch for ffmpeg/master
git checkout -b upstream.official-ffmpeg ffmpeg/master
Finally, within this branch, clone libswscale. Note the '-o' option.
git clone -o ffmpeg git://git.ffmpeg.org/libswscale