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Cloning The Revolve Repo

Inspiration: Installation Instructions for Revolve

Main Directory

We start by opening (in the terminal) a folder where you're comfortable installing Revolve.

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cd /link/to/your/directory

Then we can pull the repository 

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git clone https://github.com/ci-group/revolve.git Revolve-EC --recursive

The Revolve-EC at the end of git clone is what I want to call the folder, choose whatever you like, default is: revolve

Enter the directory: 

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cd Revolve-EC

From this point on, this location is what I refer to as "main directory".

EC Research Branch

After downloading the project, we need to choose a branch to work on:
mine will be ec_2021_research.

We move branches by doing:

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git checkout ec_2021_research

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# Expected output:
    branch 'ec_2021_research' set up to track 'origin/ec_2021_research'.
    Switched to a new branch 'ec_2021_research'

Next, we need to pull the submodules which aren't downloaded by default:

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git submodule update --init --recursive

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# Expected output:
    Submodule 'thirdparty/MultiNEAT' (https://github.com/ci-group/MultiNEAT.git) registered for path 'thirdparty/MultiNEAT'
    Cloning into '/link/to/your/directory/Revolve-EC/thirdparty/MultiNEAT'...
    Submodule path 'thirdparty/MultiNEAT': checked out '7f40de3631b37270c73f367eb41456d3f1b09be5'

MultiNEAT

Finally, we get the latest version of MultiNEAT, the latest version prevents bugs in later steps: 

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cd thirdparty/MultiNEAT
git checkout master


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# Expected output:
    Previous HEAD position was 7f40de3 Simplified python binding compilation
    Switched to branch 'master'
    Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.

Pull all required submodules of MultiNEAT 

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git submodule update --init --recursive

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# Expected output:
    Submodule 'thirdparty/boost-python' (https://github.com/boostorg/python) registered for path 'thirdparty/boost-python'
    Cloning into '/link/to/your/directory/Revolve-EC/thirdparty/MultiNEAT/thirdparty/boost-python'...
    Submodule path 'thirdparty/boost-python': checked out 'aee2667407736593bfbc81836e64d9d743d10481'

Cloning the Revolve repository is done