[bitbake-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/5] Implement git shallow mirror tarball support

[Christopher Larson]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Christopher Larson <kergoth at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From: Christopher Larson <chris_larson at mentor.com>
>
> Please review the following changes for suitability for inclusion. If you
> have
> any objections or suggestions for improvement, please respond to the
> patches. If
> you agree with the changes, please provide your Acked-by.
>
> This only implements support for shallow mirror tarballs, not shallow
> clones.
>
> The mirror tarball filename includes branch, revision, and depth. To
> enable,
> use the `BB_GIT_SHALLOW` variable, or `BB_GIT_SHALLOW_<name>` for specific
> URLs. This variable can hold either a clone depth (e.g. `1` to just get
> SRCREV), or a ref or commit, in which case we keep history up to that
> commit.
>
> The shallow support will not, at this time, function correctly for
> linux-yocto, due to its branching scheme & validation.
>
> Example:
>
>     BB_GIT_SHALLOW ?= "1"
>     BB_GIT_SHALLOW_pn-linux-yocto = ""
>     BB_GIT_SHALLOW_pn-linux-mel_mx6 = "v3.14"
>     BB_GIT_SHALLOW_pn-testrepo = "testbranch"
>
> This implementation will attempt to fetch a full mirror tarball if it was
> unable to fetch a shallow tarball. If `BB_GIT_SHALLOW` and
> `BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS` are enabled for a given recipe, a shallow
> tarball will be emitted.
>

I forgot to mention, this implements [YOCTO #7958](
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7958).
-- 
Christopher Larson
kergoth at gmail dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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