[Buildroot] [PATCH] docs: use-case for un-ignoring VCS directories and overridden source dir

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 10/06/2019 15:37, Jan Kundrát wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kundrát <jan.kundrat at cesnet.cz>
> Suggested-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>
> Fixes: a27078d32d Allow overriding the VCS exclude list with *_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR_RSYNC_EXCLUSIONS

 Not really a Fixes thing - we always do documentation updates in a separate commit.


 Applied to master, thanks. Thanks for the quick turnaround!

 Regards,
 Arnout

> ---
>  docs/manual/using-buildroot-development.txt | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/manual/using-buildroot-development.txt b/docs/manual/using-buildroot-development.txt
> index 65a9f1a3f7..da6dd822fb 100644
> --- a/docs/manual/using-buildroot-development.txt
> +++ b/docs/manual/using-buildroot-development.txt
> @@ -109,3 +109,13 @@ WEBKITGTK_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR_RSYNC_EXCLUSIONS = \
>  	--exclude WebDriverTests --exclude WebKitBuild --exclude WebKitLibraries \
>  	--exclude WebKit.xcworkspace --exclude Websites --exclude Examples
>  ------------------
> +
> +By default, Buildroot skips syncing of VCS artifacts (e.g., the *.git* and
> +*.svn* directories). Some packages prefer to have these VCS directories
> +available during build, for example for automatically determining a precise
> +commit reference for version information. To undo this built-in filtering at a
> +cost of a slower speed, add these directories back:
> +
> +------------------
> +LINUX_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR_RSYNC_EXCLUSIONS = --include .git
> +------------------
>