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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] git: fix handling of git repos using master as version
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 16:33:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180604163302.2d529afd@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1528119150-28659-1-git-send-email-bbeckett@netvu.org.uk>

Hello,

On Mon,  4 Jun 2018 14:32:29 +0100, Robert Beckett wrote:
> Since changing to git init followed by fetch to initialise
> git cache, when using master branch as the target version
> for a package, git refuses to fetch in to currently checkout
> out branch or master.

I think we don't want to support using branches as Git versions, as it
doesn't make sense, because it won't behave as the user expects.

If you use a branch as _VERSION for a package, Buildroot will only
download once, and never update to newer commits in this branch,
because it will already have a cached tarball in its DL_DIR.

So I'm not sure we want to add some code to support a use case that we
don't want support :-)

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-06-04 14:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-04 13:32 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] git: fix handling of git repos using master as version Robert Beckett
2018-06-04 13:32 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] dl-wrapper: Fix support for URIs containing '+' Robert Beckett
2018-06-04 15:56   ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-06-04 20:00   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-06-04 14:33 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2018-06-04 14:59   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] git: fix handling of git repos using master as version Bob Beckett
2018-06-04 15:44     ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-06-04 16:32       ` Bob Beckett
2018-06-04 16:52         ` Gary Bisson
2018-06-04 16:54           ` Bob Beckett
2018-06-04 17:22             ` Henrique Marks
2018-06-04 22:45             ` Trent Piepho
2018-06-04 22:19           ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2018-06-05  3:26             ` Baruch Siach
2018-06-05 19:36               ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2018-06-05  5:53             ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-06-04 16:23     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-06-04 16:51       ` Bob Beckett
2018-06-04 22:18         ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2018-06-05  7:57           ` Thomas Petazzoni

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