[OE-core] [PATCH 1/4] gcc: Switch SRC_URI to use svn

[Chris Larson]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Otavio Salvador
<otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Björn Stenberg <bjst at enea.com> wrote:
>> Khem Raj wrote:
>>> I agree but then 1.7 GB is noticeably huge too and it will only become
>>> larger in future so I don't think fetching from git will be a good solution
>>> for gcc ever.
>>
>> Can we use shallow clones? A quick test of gcc-4.7 gave me a 308 MB tar.gz when cloned with --depth 1.
>
> I did not check if the fetcher has this support  but it would be a
> nice solution.

Shallow clones won't be able to support SRCREV properly, as you can
only clone shallowly from HEAD, not from an arbitrary point in
history, AFAIK.
-- 
Christopher Larson