Re: [PATCH 4/6] sourceipk: Fix issue with git fetch when shallow clone is used

[Denys Dmytriyenko <denys@ti.com>]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 04:31:37PM -0600, Franklin S. Cooper Jr wrote:
> From: "Franklin S. Cooper Jr" <fcooper@ti.com>
> 
> * When shallow clone is used for some reason running git fetch on the repository
>   didn't end up making it completely whole (fetch all commits).
> * Even worse the copied repository didn't have a proper way to reference or
>   fetch remote branches or tags.
> * For some reason deleting the origin and seeing it back to the correct value
>   fixed these problems.

That all sounds like some kind of voodoo... :) What version of git were you 
using?


> Signed-off-by: Franklin S. Cooper Jr <fcooper@ti.com>
> ---
>  meta-arago-distro/classes/sourceipk.bbclass |    6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta-arago-distro/classes/sourceipk.bbclass b/meta-arago-distro/classes/sourceipk.bbclass
> index 6b16657..6895378 100644
> --- a/meta-arago-distro/classes/sourceipk.bbclass
> +++ b/meta-arago-distro/classes/sourceipk.bbclass
> @@ -157,7 +157,11 @@ adjust_git() {
>  
>              cd -
>  
> -            git remote set-url origin $remote_repo $local_repo
> +            # Some crazy reason I need to add these two lines when doing a
> +            # shallow copy. Otherwise, I had problems where git fetch wasn't
> +            # properly fetching all the commits and extra remotes.
> +            git remote rm origin
> +            git remote add origin $remote_repo
>  
>              # Repackage the repository so its a proper clone of the original
>              # (remote) git repository
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
> 
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