[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] support/download/git: Prioritize remote archive

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

On 2016-08-17 23:54 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 23:31:02 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> 
> > So, I think it is safe to assume that git-archives always generates
> > reproducible archive.
> 
> So the only remaining reason to not use git archive all the time is to
> support submodules?

Yes.

When doing submodules, I pondered doing two code paths: one for
non-submodules, that would use git-archive, and one where we would do it
all manually as we do today.

But then I concluded that it was better to have a single code path.

Note that, before submodules, we were happily using git-archive locally,
not even forcing the collating rules.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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