From f7c304dae000d4b7fd98c7bdff18c51e0f1adae1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Toombs <alex.m.toombs@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:42:19 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add a script to checkout other dependencies.

---
 README.md |  3 ++-
 checkout  | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100755 checkout

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ed4322d0454..4e3239ae7f7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ Please put all issues regarding go IPFS _implementation_ in [this repo](https://
 ```
 git clone https://github.com/jbenet/go-ipfs
 cd go-ipfs
-go install
+./checkout
+go install ./...
 ```
 
 ## Usage
diff --git a/checkout b/checkout
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..b55c19938c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/checkout
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# We use `go get` to clone all repos. Ensure we have a GOPATH set.
+if [ "$GOPATH" = "" ]; then
+	echo "ERROR: no GOPATH set"
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+repos=(github.com/jbenet/go-multiaddr github.com/jbenet/go-multihash
+	github.com/jbenet/datastore.go bazil.org/fuse code.google.com/p/gogoprotobuf/proto
+	github.com/gonuts/flag github.com/jbenet/commander github.com/jbenet/datastore.go/leveldb
+	github.com/jbenet/go-msgio)
+
+echo "Cloning ${#repos[@]} external repositories for go-ipfs..."
+
+# Download/update all repos using the `go get` tool.
+for dir in ${repos[@]}; do
+	echo "Cloning ${dir}..."
+	if [ -d "$GOPATH/src/${dir}" ]; then
+   		echo "  Already exists, updating"
+	fi
+	# Hide errors/output.
+   	go get ${dir} >/dev/null 2>&1
+done