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

[Nikolay Dimitrov <picmaster@mail.bg>]

Hi Andrei,

On 07/09/2015 11:19 PM, Andrei Gherzan wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Nikolay Dimitrov <picmaster@mail.bg
> <mailto:picmaster@mail.bg>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Ross,
>
>     On 07/06/2015 07:58 PM, Nikolay Dimitrov wrote:
>
>         Hi Ross,
>
>         On 07/06/2015 07:26 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
>
>
>             On 6 July 2015 at 17:23, Burton, Ross <ross.burton@intel.com
>             <mailto:ross.burton@intel.com>
>             <mailto:ross.burton@intel.com
>             <mailto:ross.burton@intel.com>>> wrote:
>
>                  How latest, remembering that oe-core supports LTS
>             distros which are
>                  likely to have old releases of git.
>
>
>             Assuming I'm driving it correctly:
>
>             [git init, git remote add origin ...]
>             $ git fetch  --depth=1 origin
>             beeafee030a38380c65a9a664003ba50f87aefbf
>             error: no such remote ref
>             beeafee030a38380c65a9a664003ba50f87aefbf
>             $ git --version
>             git version 2.1.4
>
>             That's with the latest Debian release.
>
>             Ross
>
>
>         Well, the commits that add this feature are from May-June.2015.
>         I fully
>         agree with you that LTS is a factor that can't be ignored.
>
>         Kind regards,
>         Nikolay
>
>
>     Forgot to answer you question - the expected versions to include
>     this feature are 2.5.0/2.5.1. <http://2.5.1.>
>
>
> So there is no support for depth clones until 2.5.0? I didn't really
> understand.

Well, shallow clones are supported but only for branch tips, which is
not what we need. This feature for shallow cloning a specific revision
is available only in git 2.5.0+. Also, this feature needs a server-side
configuration option to be enabled, in order to work properly.

Regards,
Nikolay