[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/4] download/git: ensure we have a sane repository

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

Ricardo, All,

On 2018-04-19 12:50 -0300, Ricardo Martincoski spake thusly:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 01:48 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > There are cases where a repository might be broken, e.g. when a previous
> > operation was killed or otherwise failed unexpectedly.
> > 
> > We fix that by always initialising the repository, as suggested by
> > Ricardo. git-init is safe on an otherwise-healthy repository:
> > 
> >     Running git init in an existing repository is safe. It will not
> >     overwrite things that are already there. [...]
> > 
> > Using git-init will just ensure that we have the strictly required files
> > to form a sane tree. Any blob that is still missing would get fetched
> > later on.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
> > Reported-by: Ricardo Martincoski <ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
> > Cc: Ricardo Martincoski <ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
> > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Ricardo Martincoski <ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com>
> [a broken repo with a clean worktree is recovered at the extent that git allows]
> Tested-by: Ricardo Martincoski <ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com>
> 
> 
> Tests performed with patches 1 and 2 applied:
> 
> 1) In the same scenario tested for patch 1 (empty dl/<package>/git) instead of
>    bailing out the script reinitialises and uses the git cache.
> 
> 2) Using git 2.11.0, download all git packages in the tree, remove the tarball
>    and regenerate it 2 times, before [1] and after [2] this patch.
> [1] https://gitlab.com/RicardoMartincoski/buildroot/pipelines/20734086
> [2] https://gitlab.com/RicardoMartincoski/buildroot/pipelines/20729761
> In theses GitLab pipelines there are jobs marked as failures (remote server did
> not respond, ...) but they are not related to patch 1 or 2. The same occur
> before and after the 2 patches.

Thanks for the extensive testing! :-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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