[Buildroot] [PATCH 08/11] support/download: implement source-check in git backend

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello Thomas,

On Thu,  3 Jan 2019 21:40:23 +0100, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> From: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire at nokia.com>
> 
> The implementation is the same as originally was present.
> It suffers from the disadvantage that an invalid revision on a valid URL
> will not be detected.
> 
> However, git does not seem to allow a good way to remotely check the
> validity of a revision, without cloning the repository.
> 
> For source-check, we don't want to do such download which can be large.

While I understand the limitation, I don't really agree with the
conclusion: we should go ahead and download the full thing. Indeed the
selling argument for source-check in your cover letter is precisely to
verify that the version of the package that has been committed by
someone is *really* available. If there's no version check in the git,
bzr and cvs source-check implementation, it makes the selling point of
the cover letter a bit moot, no?

Of course, I realize that your primary interest is in hg, and hg has
this capability. But still we should ensure git/bzr/cvs provide the same
guarantees, by falling back to the slower but working method of
downloading everything.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
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