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

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>]

Hello,

On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 18:48:21 +0200, 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>
> ---
>  support/download/git | 18 ++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Applied to master, thanks.

Thomas
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