[Buildroot] feature or pebkac

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 08/30/13 09:58, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Arnout Vandecappelle,
>
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 21:05:53 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
>> On 08/29/13 20:17, rh wrote:
[snip]
>>> But I don't need all that and I now use --single-branch argument
>>> to git clone followed by git archive to create a tar ball.
>>
>>    That's a great idea! However, this option is only available since git
>> 1.7.10 and I think that many production environments still have older git
>> versions.
>
> Can't we do like what we do for shallow clones? Try if --single-branch
> is supported and works, and if so, all right, if not, fall back to the
> normal way?

  Not so easily. For shallow clone, we check up front with ls-remote if 
it will be possible.  For --single-branch we would have to check the git 
version. And the download commands already are too complex...

  I'm really thinking we should move all that to a proper shell script. 
Then adding that kind of magic would feel as much less of an overhead.


  Regards,
  Arnout


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