From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QWIpA-0006gN-MF for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:53:48 +0200 Received: from fmsmga001.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.23]) by fmsmga101.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 13 Jun 2011 18:49:18 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.65,361,1304319600"; d="scan'208";a="17845646" Received: from linux.jf.intel.com (HELO linux.intel.com) ([10.23.219.25]) by fmsmga001.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 13 Jun 2011 18:49:18 -0700 Received: from [10.239.22.57] (unknown [10.239.22.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by linux.intel.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DA3D6A4482; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:49:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DF6BE1C.40801@linux.intel.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:49:16 +0800 From: Yu Ke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer References: <33AB447FBD802F4E932063B962385B3554AE4989@shsmsx501.ccr.corp.intel.com> <201106131700.37382.paul.eggleton@intel.com> In-Reply-To: Cc: Paul Eggleton Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC - combo layer repo tool X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:53:48 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2011/6/14 0:37, Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 16:00, Paul Eggleton wrote: >> On Monday 13 June 2011 16:33:47 Otavio Salvador wrote: >>> I think it is duplicating many features of git submodule. It seems >>> more logical to put a script above git submodule rather then use a >>> full repository for it. >> >> You're right in that git submodule provides a lot of these things. However, >> submodules don't give us the ability to split out and maintain just certain >> subdirectories / files; this allows us to bring in parts of external layers >> where the parts of that layer we want are not split out neatly into a >> subdirectory. > > I will give the script a try and see how it behave to us. > Thanks for trying this. Any feedback is welcome. Regards Ke