[bitbake-devel] Bitbake and Git LFS

[Florian Doersch]

Hi,

I am currently using Bitbake via Yocto.

Since we use git lfs to store larger binary blobs in our git 
repositories, I ran into a problem building these repositories in bitbake.

I did some research and finally found a solution. I had to run "git lfs 
fetch --all" after "git clone --mirror", so an addition clone from the 
mirror has all necessary lfs objects available.

I've created a small patch (without any checks if git lfs is available 
or used, so theres still work to do)

--- poky/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/git.py.orig	2017-06-09 09:33:24.044338249 
+0200
+++ poky/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/git.py	2017-06-09 10:11:13.000000000 +0200
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@
              if ud.proto.lower() != 'file':
                  bb.fetch2.check_network_access(d, clone_cmd)
              runfetchcmd(clone_cmd, d)
+            runfetchcmd("git -C %s lfs fetch --all" % ud.clonedir, d)

          os.chdir(ud.clonedir)
          # Update the checkout if needed

You can freely use it if helpful.

Is there already an "official solution for that kind of problem?

Best Regards
Florian