[Buildroot] [PATCH] autobuild-run: add --repo option

[Matthew Weber]

All,

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 3:25 AM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
>
>
> On 18-07-17 10:19, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> [snip]
>> Or I could add a server-side check that the git commit being reported
>> exists in the upstream Buildroot, and is not more than 1 or 2 days old.
>> It probably makes more sense to do this server-side.
>
>  Probably yes, because indeed, something like Matt's problem could occur for
> other reasons as well.
>
>> Which means I could merge your --repo option (even if I still find its use cases
>> very, very dubious).
>
>  Well, my own use case was to be able to test the autobuild-run script with the
> in-tree config generator. When that happens, it does make a lot of sense to be
> able to test any change to the config generator with autobuild-run. Currently
> you can test the change by just running the modified autobuild-run, but when the
> config generator comes from the Buildroot tree that's not possible anymore.
>
>  I was going to post all those changes together, but since Matt was mentioning
> he had local changes to use a different mirror, I thought I'd post this one
> individually already.
>

I'm fine carrying a local change for a different repo/branch so that I
can do offline testing or use a mirror if needed for upstream.
However, your comments are fair about safe guarding results server
side.

Matt