[Buildroot] Why not perform a shallow clone?

[Patrick Doyle]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
> On 02/24/16 21:18, Patrick Doyle wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Patrick Doyle <wpdster at gmail.com> wrote:
>> No, that doesn't seem to work either.  linux.mk doesn't use $(call
>> github).  Oh well.
>
>  $(call github) is not really needed, you can just use the actual URL in your
> config: https://github.com/<project>/<repo>/archive/<version>/<version>.tar.gz
>
Oh, that's clever!  Thank you very much!

--wpd