[yocto] git.py support for submodules

[Christopher Larson]

On Saturday, May 17, 2014, Chris Morgan <chmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On May 17, 2014 3:58 PM, "Christopher Larson" <clarson at kergoth.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','clarson at kergoth.com');>>
> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > On Saturday, May 17, 2014, Chris Morgan <chmorgan at gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','chmorgan at gmail.com');>>
> wrote:
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> >> Hello.
> >>
> >> I noticed that git.py doesn't seem to have support for submodules. I
> worked around this in my recipe by adding a pre configure step but I was
> wondering if a patch to add another option to git.py to fetch submodules
> would make sense and be welcomed (pending it's implementation of course).
> >
> >
> >  See gitsm.py.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Christopher Larson
> > clarson at kergoth dot com
> > Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
> > Maintainer - Tslib
> > Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
>
> I couldn't actually figure out how to use it. I looked at the code and
> wasn't sure how it war supposed to do or what it was for.
>

You use it exactly the way you use git.py - gitsm:// instead of git://.
 It's basically git fetching plus submodule handling. I personally would rather
see it merged into git.py, but I can see the reasoning.


-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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