[bitbake-devel] [PATCH] fetch2/gitsm: Unpack shallow mirror tarballs

[Paul Barker]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 at 23:06, Christopher Larson <kergoth at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I don't think this is right. This unpacks the shallow tarball into ud.clonedir. The fetcher is specifically done the way it is to avoid ud.clonedir ever being shallow so as to avoid having to maintain that state and convert it when necessary.

Any suggestions on where we can unpack the shallow tarball then? We
need it to be unpacked somewhere so that we can examine the
.gitmodules file.