Hi All, I just committed a change to GAR that allows you to track git repos for your upstream source instead of pulling down tarballs.
To use this feature, you may use some or all of the following: 1. Define GIT_REPOS as a list of urls (git:// or http:// currently, but these are the most common) that will be pulled down. 2. Repos are stored as 'bare' (in git parlance, just the metadata, no checked out workspace) repository. 3. Each fetch should update the repo from the remote site. 4. Depending on the location where GAR is being used, git:// urls may need to be proxied (the BO farm, for example). This is handled by setting GIT_USE_PROXY. The default proxy script is gar/bin/gitproxy, but this is customizable by the user for different environments by setting GIT_PROXY_SCRIPT appropriately. 5. By default, the repo will track the 'master' branch from the origin site, but the user may set GIT_REFS_$(GITPROJ), where GITPROJ is the filename portion of the repo (eg: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git becomes git.git) 6. At extract time, the default commit to checkout from the repo is HEAD (last commit), but by setting GIT_TREEISH_$(GITPROJ), you can request a specific tag or alternate commit object (most projects will tag releases). For the Git project itself, I use GIT_TREEISH_git.git = v$(GARVERSION). 7. The checkout directory is defaulted to the normal $(EXTRACTDIR). Override git-extract-%: with a more specific target to change this (eg: if you have to upstreams to merge nicely in EXTRACTDIR or something). This feature should allow for efficient storage of an upstream source and also make for easier 'cherry picking' of patches that may be committed upstream but not yet released. Enjoy. -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 GPG Key Id: 8E89F6D2; Key Server: pgp.mit.edu Contact me to arrange for a CAcert assurance meeting.
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