[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] combo-layer-tool: add tool to manipulate combo layers

[Koen Kooi]

Op 28 jul. 2011, om 14:50 heeft Phil Blundell het volgende geschreven:

> On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 14:11 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> 1) overlapping files like .gitignore breaks the script
>> 2) git format-patch | git am is a lossy process, so you can't import oe-core and bitbake from scratch: 
> 
> Assuming I understand the intent correctly (which is by no means
> certain), it sounds like maybe what you want for (2) is git-subtree.  I
> agree that generating patches and piping them into git am sounds a bit
> suboptimal for moving changesets from one place to another.

It indeed looks like scripts/combo-layer can be replaced with https://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree/blob/master/git-subtree.txt

I'm still not sure how much the "everything in one repo" approach will buy the angstrom maintainers, but at least now I now a few more ways to assemble the one-git-repo-to-rule-them-all :)

regards,

Koen