[Buildroot] [PATCH] support/download: fetch all refs on full git clone

["Jérôme Pouiller" <jezz@sysmic.org>]

Hello Arnout,

On Friday 13 November 2015 07:49:48 Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
[...]
> What I
> think would make sense is that for distributed VCS downloads (i.e.
> git and hg) we keep a full (shallow) clone in DL_DIR in addition to
> the tarball. That makes handling updates a lot more efficient. We
> probably would want to expose that to PRIMARY and SECONDARY download
> sites as well. Especially the PRIMARY would be useful, since it would
> allow you to start from a local clone of e.g. linux.git (which may
> not have the ref you need), and then just fetch the missing refs from
> upstream.
> 
>  This will not be easy to implement, though, since we'd need to handle
> e.g. multiple remotes that end up in the same DL_DIR/foo.git
> repository.
For your information, I have in my drafts a patch which implement a 
similar idea. I think I would be able to send a first version in 1 or 2 
weeks.

BR,

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J?r?me Pouiller, Sysmic
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