Re: [meta-raspberrypi][PATCH] firmware.inc: fetch from SVN instead of Git

[Nikolay Dimitrov <picmaster@mail.bg>]

Hi Jonathan,

On 07/04/2015 06:48 AM, Jonathan Liu wrote:
> Reduces the download time significantly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Liu <net147@gmail.com>
> ---
>   recipes-bsp/common/firmware.inc | 6 +++---
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/recipes-bsp/common/firmware.inc b/recipes-bsp/common/firmware.inc
> index ad3176a..100df3a 100644
> --- a/recipes-bsp/common/firmware.inc
> +++ b/recipes-bsp/common/firmware.inc
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> -RPIFW_SRCREV ?= "e42a747e8d5c4a2fb3e837d0924c7cc39999936a"
> +RPIFW_SRCREV ?= "461"
>   RPIFW_DATE ?= "20150206"
> -RPIFW_SRC_URI ?= "git://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware.git;protocol=git;branch=master"
> -RPIFW_S ?= "${WORKDIR}/git"
> +RPIFW_SRC_URI ?= "svn://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware;protocol=https;module=trunk"
> +RPIFW_S ?= "${WORKDIR}/trunk"
>
>   SRC_URI = "${RPIFW_SRC_URI}"
>   SRCREV = "${RPIFW_SRCREV}"
>

Just tested the download times for this repo:

git (deep clone): 24m
svn: 3m8s
git (shallow clone): 40s

Isn't it possible to use "--depth 1" for git clone? I would rather
prefer seeing this instead of just giving up and going back to svn...

Regards,
Nikolay