[Buildroot] Allowing to build from Git branches

[Adam Duskett]

Hello;

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 1:32 AM Christophe Blaess <mailist at logilin.fr> wrote:
>
> Hello Thomas,
>
> > However, what I am proposing is not going that far. All what I'm
> > proposing is that if you're doing a clean build, if a package points to
> > a Git branch as an upstream source, then Buildroot would re-fetch from
> > that Git branch rather than using a locally cached tarball in DL_DIR
> > potentially corresponding to an older version of that Git branch.
>
> Would it be possible to have an option on a per-package basis to always
> by-pass the DL_DIR mechanism and re-fetch the sources?
>
This is what I am thinking.
Something like: <PKG>_GIT_METHOD=branch


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