[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] support/download/git: Prioritize remote archive

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> writes:

Hi,

 > NAK in the state.

 > If the package needs submodules, we can't ask the remote to generate
 > the archive for us, because git-archive does not know how to include
 > submodules.

 > So, maybe this would work:

 >     if [ ${recurse} -eq 0 ]; then
 >         if _git blabla remote archive; then
 >             exit 0
 >         fi
 >     fi

Or alternatively, we look at the alternative approach for handling
submodules - E.G. splicing git archive outputs.

 > Also, as stated by Thomas, we want to generate reproducible archives, so
 > that we can check the hashes of archives. We go at great length to
 > generate such archives locally, but I don't see a guarantee that the
 > remote archive would be reproducible.

Normal 'git archive' output should be reproducable, E.G. that is what we
used until recently.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard