[OE-core] [PATCH] classes: add gitupstream class

[Mark Hatle]

On 3/8/17 11:36 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> 
> On 8 March 2017 at 17:31, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com
> <mailto:mark.hatle at windriver.com>> wrote:
> 
>     One of the uses I've seen people ask for is to take the (patched) versions that
>     OE puts together, store these in their own git trees and manage it there -- also
>     allowing them to patch them directly in their own trees.
> 
>     It appears to me this could be used to pull down that content.  Have you thought
>     about adding anything to make it easier for someone to generate the trees?
> 
> 
> That sounds a lot like what devtool lets you do already.

Devtool can do something similar, create a custom recipe... but I don't believe
it has the ability to take an existing (patched) recipe, create a git tree
somewhere [external], and then make it available for modification.

The request I keep getting is that they want a set of git repositories (on their
own SCM system) that they can directly make changes to, updating specific
sources.  (They do not want to change the existing recipes, other then to
specify this magic SCM system of theirs as where to pull the [already patched]
source from.)

I see how this patch can be used to point an existing recipe to one of those
'local SCM systems'... but creating the repository would still be an exercise
for the user.

--Mark

> Ross