Basically the same as the asterisk HOWTO. Changes: Initial clone is: git svn clone -s http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/dahdi/tools dahdi-tools The .gitignore file is: cp ../asterisk-tools/dahdi-tools_gitignore .gitignore And most importantly: cheating and not using menuselect at all: mkdir menuselect cp ../asterisk-tools/menuselect/Makefile menuselect ln -s /bin/true menuselect/menuselect