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author | Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> | 2014-05-19 14:49:56 +0300 |
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committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-06-18 13:48:38 +0100 |
commit | 77166a2a8846ca61b67b37a8f7f885f0405d214b (patch) | |
tree | e1b92e638175f9836381887c541b688c6fce151e | |
parent | 655e2baf1d292b5f699e620dc41971b42b468169 (diff) | |
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bitbake: bitbake-user-manual-fetching.xml: Added new Git Submodule Fetcher section.
Added the "GIT Submodule Fetcher (gitsm://)" section to the
fetchers chapter. This information was provided by Chris
Morgan.
Reported-by: Chris Morgan <chmorgan@gmail.com>
(Bitbake rev: a3a3331e7118fd3139fe5a80b157a5a5b38631de)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r-- | bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.xml | 27 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.xml b/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.xml index 858054f..f5031cf 100644 --- a/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.xml +++ b/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.xml @@ -574,12 +574,27 @@ <title>GIT Submodule Fetcher (<filename>gitsm://</filename>)</title> <para> - This fetcher inherits from the Git fetcher and extends its - behavior by fetching a repositories submodules. - Uri is passed to the Git fetcher so see <link linkend='git-fetcher'> - the git fetcher documentation for syntax</link>. - NOTE: You must clean a recipe when switching between 'git://' and - 'gitsm://' urls. + This fetcher submodule inherits from the + <link linkend='git-fetcher'>Git fetcher</link> and extends + that fetcher's behavior by fetching a repository's submodules. + URI is passed to the Git fetcher as described in the + "<link linkend='git-fetcher'>GIT Fetcher (<filename>git://</filename>)</link>" + section. + <note> + <title>Notes and Warnings</title> + <para> + You must clean a recipe when switching between + '<filename>git://</filename>' and + '<filename>gitsm://</filename>' URLs. + </para> + + <para> + The Git Submodules fetcher is not a complete fetcher + implementation. + The fetcher has known issues where it does not use the + normal source mirroring infrastructure properly. + </para> + </note> </para> </section> |