[Buildroot] SCM management
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Tue Mar 29 01:41:28 UTC 2011
Hi,
ping
Best Regards,
J.
On 17:30 Wed 16 Mar , Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> Hi,
>
> During my work on barebox and the kernel
> I modify Buildroot to get the source from my git or the mainline
> and found out that we remove the tree everytime and re-clone it
>
> This is time consuming specialy in develeopment when you add new
> commit for other user which need to re-checkout your tree.
>
> So I'd like to propose a new way to manage the trees
> we could do something like on gentoo
>
> as example with git
> we clone a bare tre and store it in dl and do not remove it so if you
> need a new version of the tree you just need to fetch it and do not
> clone it again
>
> For this purpose I would propose to manage the tree like this in dl
> for git as example
> builddir/fetch/git-src/${package}
>
> for bzr
> builddir/fetch/bzr-src/${package}
>
> and to simplify the scm I would like to propose the manage it not via
> makefile rules but via scripts
>
> Best Regards,
> J.
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