From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2016 19:09:51 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/4 v3] support/download/git: add support for submodules In-Reply-To: <4d8136108e0e7be40bad4fa68ebb3dd558f42f8d.1467363623.git.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> (Yann E. MORIN's message of "Fri, 1 Jul 2016 11:01:18 +0200") References: <4d8136108e0e7be40bad4fa68ebb3dd558f42f8d.1467363623.git.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Message-ID: <874m8855ls.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN writes: > Some git repositories may be split into a master repository and > submodules. Up until now, we did not have support for submodules, > because we were using bare clones, in which it is not possible to > update the list of submodules. > Now that we are using plain clones with a working copy, we can retrieve > the submdoules. > Add an option to the git downlaod helper to kick the update of > submodules, so that they are only fetched for those packages that > require them. Also document the existing -q option at the same time. > Submodules have a .git file at their root, which contains the path to > the real .git directory of the master repository. Since we remove it, > there is no point in keeping those .git files either. > Note: this is currently unused, but will be enabled with the follow-up > patch , that adds the necessary parts in the pkg-generic and pkg-download > infrastructures. > Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" > Tested-by: Matt Weber > Reviewed-by: Matt Weber Committed, thanks. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard