[OE-core] [PATCH] RFC - combo layer repo tool

[Koen Kooi]

Op 13 jun 2011, om 17:33 heeft Otavio Salvador het volgende geschreven:

> 2011/6/13 Yu, Ke <ke.yu at intel.com>:
> ...
>>    Combo layer tool provides three functionalities:
>>    - init: when the combo layer repo and component repo is not existed,
>>      init will "git init" the combo layer repo, and also "git clone" the
>>      component repo
> 
> I think it is duplicating many features of git submodule. It seems
> more logical to put a script above git submodule rather then use a
> full repository for it.
> 
> Am I missing anything?

The fact that git submodules:

a) universally suck
b) behave wildly different between git versions

The first version of the angstrom setup scripts used git submodules, but I quickly found that I as well as my coworkers are too stupid to deal with them properly, so we wrote an awk script to manage the layers. It's a red flag that only very recent git versions have the 'git clone --recursive' feature. It shows that git developers are either really, really disciplined or don't use submodules themselves.