[Buildroot] [PATCH 3/4] download/git: ensure we can checkout repos with submodule conversions

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

Arnout, All,

On 2018-04-20 01:30 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 19-04-18 21:59, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > On 2018-04-18 10:04 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
[--SNIP--]
> >>  I'm liking the bare repos more and more :-)
> > But then, we can't have submodules stored in a bare repo, because we
> > need a workign copy to have the list of submodules, and their
> > versions...
> 
>  It's *possible* to do things fully "manually", e.g. with some plumbing commands:
> 
> export GIT_DIR=/path/to/bare/repo
> blob=$(git ls-tree $cset .gitmodules | awk '{print $3}')
> if [ "$blob" ]; then
>   tmpfile=$(git unpack-file $blob)
>   etc. etc.

I hope you were only joking there... ;-)

No, no, no... We don't want to go that route, reinventing the git
internals in a shell script... Even I can't find this appealing...

Well, that could be fun to write...
No, don't look down the deep ravine... ;-]

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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