[yocto] Git/yocto newbie question re: submodules and multiple layers

[Anders Darander]

* Michael Habibi <mikehabibi at gmail.com> [160825 23:26]:

> The difficulty I have is thus:

> my_git_repo/ <--- what my platform developers will 'git clone'
> my_git_repo/yocto_git/... <-- yocto framework
> my_git_repo/yocto_git/meta-openembedded <-- another git repo nested
> inside yocto repo

> my_git_repo/yocto_git/meta-intel <-- another example layer.

> I would like for developers to be able to 'git clone' a single repo,
> but pull down all the necessary layers from various git repos.
> Basically it will comprise all repos, including yocto, OE layers,
> intel layers, etc.

> I believe the only way I can nest submodules inside pre-existing repos
> is for me to create a local clone of yocto git and add the submodules
> to that clone. That means the master git repo (my_git_repo in example
> above) will point to *our* clone of yocto git and not yocto project's
> git repo. In our local clone of yocto git, I will add a submodule for
> each layer I want to add.

> Does that make sense? Is this the right approach or is there a smarter way?

I'm using submodules, but I put them like:

my_git_repo/ <--- what my platform developers will 'git clone'
my_git_repo/yocto_git/... <-- yocto framework
my_git_repo/meta-openembedded 

Well, I'm using bitbake and openembedded-core repos directly instead of
yocto, but that doesn't really matter.

Cheers,
Anders

-- 
Anders Darander, Senior System Architect
ChargeStorm AB / eStorm AB