[Buildroot] [PATCH v5 07/10] testing/tests/download: test git submodules

[Yann E. MORIN]

Arnout, All,

On 2019-02-05 11:03 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 12/05/2018 04:58, Ricardo Martincoski wrote:
> > +################################################################################
> > +#
> > +# git-submodule-enabled
> > +#
> > +################################################################################
> > +
> > +GIT_SUBMODULE_ENABLED_VERSION = a9dbc1e23c45e8e1b88c0448763f54d714eb6f8f
> > +GIT_SUBMODULE_ENABLED_SITE = git://localhost:$(GITREMOTE_PORT_NUMBER)/repo.git
> > +GIT_SUBMODULE_ENABLED_GIT_SUBMODULES = YES
> > +GIT_SUBMODULE_ENABLED_LICENSE_FILES = \
> > +	file \
> > +	refs-sub1/file \
> > +	refs-sub1/refs-sub2/file
> > +
> > +# Some versions of git client fill the .git file for the second level submodule
> > +# using the absolute path to the main .git directory, which in the case of the
> > +# buildroot download helper is always different since it uses a temporary
> > +# directory. This version of git have the issue:
> > +# - 2.7.4 included in Ubuntu 16.04;
> > +# The same does not occur using newer versions of git:
> > +# - 2.11.0 included in Debian 9;
> > +# - 2.14.2 latest at the time of writing;
> > +# In order to allow running this test case locally in many systems, do not check
> > +# for the hash of the tarball, but instead check the hash of each meaningful
> > +# file included in the tarball.
> 
>  This is a bug! Funny that we never hit it in the autobuilders, don't we have an
> Ubuntu 16.04 autobuilder and don't we have packages with submodules and a hash?
> 
>  Anyway, I think maybe we should fix the bug first... Ideally there should be a
> test case for it as well, but that's difficult since it depends on the installed
> git version.
> 
>  Yann, how about if we change the find command in the git helper to
> find . -name .git -prune -o -print
> ?

Yeah, I too consider it a bug, and this should be fixed. I'll tackle
this as part of my git-backend rework in the upcoming days.

Sorry I did not reply to the mail earlier, with all the live discussion
we had yesterday it just slipped my mind...

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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