[cip-dev] [cip-kernel-sec 1/2] remotes: automatically add remotes from configuration file

[ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk (Ben Hutchings)]

On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 03:54 +0000, daniel.sangorrin at toshiba.co.jp wrote:
> > > > From: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
> > On Mon, 2019-06-17 at 14:21 +0900, Daniel Sangorrin wrote:
> > > Currently the user is required to create its own remotes by
> > > hand. This should not be necessary, because the information
> > > is already collected in conf/remotes.yml. For that reason,
> > > if we detect that any remote has not been added to the
> > > local repo then we will add those.
> > 
> > I'm not yet convinced this is a good idea.
> 
> I sent a new patch that takes a different approach. The new patch will
> only check that the necessary remotes are there. I also prepared a
> new separate script, for new users to prepare the local repository.
> 
> > After this change, we would still be assuming that there is a kernel
> > repository or working tree next to kernel-config.??If we wanted to be
> > really helpful we could create a new repository if it's not there.
> 
> I didn't understand the kernel-config thing. Maybe I am missing something important.
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Sorry, I meant "next to kernel-sec".

Ben.

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