Re: [BuildStream] Merging 'git_tag' and 'git'

[Mathieu Bridon <bochecha daitauha fr>]

Hi,

This would be great!

On Mon, 2020-01-06 at 15:22 +0000, Tom Mewett via buildstream-list
wrote:
> The main additions to 'git_tag' are:
>
> 1.  It will fetch only the given ref when given an exact tag ref
>     (*-0-g*)
> 2.  It can be configured to choose the latest tagged commit when
>     tracking
> 3.  It can track multiple branches; it chooses the latest
>     commit/tag found on any when tracking

Another one is that git_tag supports Git submodules defined with
relative URLs:

https://gitlab.com/BuildStream/bst-external/blob/master/bst_external/sources/git_tag.py#L689-690

This doesn't seem to be supported by the git source?

It's quite important as many upstreams do that, when they maintain the
main module and the submodules together.


-- 
Mathieu