Hans:
> Am Dienstag, 20. Juli 2021, 13:49:47 CEST schrieb anonym:
>
>> In your previous email I see that you did some changes inside the tails
>> folder without committing them to Git. Tails will only include changes that
>> are in Git, and will refuse to build when you have uncommitted changes --
>> the ignorechanges option is just for disabling that check (only recommended
>> if you know what you are doing), and proceeds to build without those
>> uncommitted changes.
>>
>> If you are not too familiar with Git, you can try this (at the root of your
>> tails folder) to add all files to Git:
>>
>> git add .
>> git commit -m "Did some stuff"
>>
>> And then just `rake build` as usual.
>>
>> Cheers!
>
> Ok, I could do this. But does this not kill the original stuff?
Nothing is ever lost when using Git. :) It keeps the history of how files have changed.
> My purpose is,
> to build my own tails version with XFCE and kali-undercover and without gnome.
> Just to make it as small as possible.
Understood. That is compatible with the instructions I gave you above.
However, removing Gnome is likely very hard. I suggest you install XFCE in addition to Gnome to save you tons of work (potentially weeks, I'd guess). Are saving ~100 megabytes really worth it? :)
> If I commit my personal changes to git, as you requesting, then (please
> correct me, if I am wrong) my changes will change the sources in github, what
> is the last thing I want to do.
Don't worry, your local changes are not published anywhere by default (that requires the `git push` command). And you do not have permission to publish changed on Tails' GitLab any way. :)
> I still do not even know, if this, what I want to do, is really working. At
> the moment I am trying things, step by step. And I want to be sure, these
> things are only done on my own systems. This must be confirmed.
That's awesome! "Try, fail, repeat" is a surefire recipe for learning! :)
If you didn't already, have a look at HACKING.mdwn for some quick explanations of how to modify Tails!
Cheers!
