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

Otavio Salvador otavio at ossystems.com.br
Mon Jun 13 16:37:28 UTC 2011


On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 16:00, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at intel.com> wrote:
> On Monday 13 June 2011 16:33:47 Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> 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.
>
> You're right in that git submodule provides a lot of these things. However,
> submodules don't give us the ability to split out and maintain just certain
> subdirectories / files; this allows us to bring in parts of external layers
> where the parts of that layer we want are not split out neatly into a
> subdirectory.

I will give the script a try and see how it behave to us.

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