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On Monday 02 December 2013 13:02:21 S=F8ren Holm wrote:
> Mandag den 2. december 2013 11:57:35 skrev Paul Eggleton:
> > I presume you mean the .gitignore in the poky repository. Any addit=
ional
> > custom layers shouldn't be part of the poky repository, they should=
 be in
> > separate repositories.
>=20
> That's right. But how would you put "build/*" and my own "meta-*" in =
a
> seperate repo. Pulling them in as submodules seems painfull and havin=
g the
> yocto-repo included as a submodule in another repo seems backwards to=
o.
>=20
> Do you have a proposed "best-practice"-way of maintaining own layers?=


There are a number of different options:

* submodules
* repo [1]
* combo-layer [2] (what we use for Poky)
* or, just keep the repositories separate

Re build/, you shouldn't need to keep that under version control. If yo=
u are
setting a large number of variables in local.conf that you want to pres=
erve,
that is a sign that you should move these to a custom distro configurat=
ion file
[3].

Cheers,
Paul

[1] http://code.google.com/p/git-repo/
[2] https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Combo-layer
[3] http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/dev-manual/dev-manual.html=
#creating-your-own-distribution

--=20

Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre