[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.
>

Two new patch series have been submitted, one with general fetch fixes, one
a simplified and cleaned up version of this. I'd greatly appreciate any
review or testers of this, as there are many corner cases to consider in
the fetch code, so the more testers, the better.
-- 
Christopher Larson
kergoth at gmail dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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