On Sat, 2014-05-17 at 13:19 -0700, Christopher Larson wrote: > > > On Saturday, May 17, 2014, Chris Morgan <chmor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On May 17, 2014 3:58 PM, "Christopher Larson" > <clar...@kergoth.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Saturday, May 17, 2014, Chris Morgan <chmor...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Hello. > >> > >> I noticed that git.py doesn't seem to have support for > submodules. I worked around this in my recipe by adding a pre > configure step but I was wondering if a patch to add another > option to git.py to fetch submodules would make sense and be > welcomed (pending it's implementation of course). > > > > > > See gitsm.py. > > > > > > -- > > Christopher Larson > > clarson at kergoth dot com > > Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus > > Maintainer - Tslib > > Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics > > > I couldn't actually figure out how to use it. I looked at the > code and wasn't sure how it war supposed to do or what it was > for. > > You use it exactly the way you use git.py - gitsm:// instead of > git://. It's basically git fetching plus submodule handling. I > personally would rather see it merged into git.py, but I can see the > reasoning.
FWIW the reason its separate is that mirroring is not in a good state with submodules since git is doing magic things behind the scenes that the fetcher and its mirror infrastructure have no knowledge of. We should probably document that somewhere though. There are a few ways it can be fixed but its ugly and I'd prefer to have that code isolated for now. It could easily be merged later and it needs someone who cares about submodules to fix it up to be a first class citizen before that can happen. Cheers, Richard -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
