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On Wednesday, January 31, 2018 9:31:02 PM PST Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 09:32:39PM -0500, Lucas Ramage wrote: |
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> > Hello, |
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> > |
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> > Is there a way to specify a branch in repos.conf/overlay_name.conf? |
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> The source of Portage's pym/portage/sync/modules/git/git.py contains |
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> this comment: |
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> def update(self): |
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> ''' Update existing git repository, and ignore the syncuri. We are |
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> going to trust the user and assume that the user is in the branch |
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> that he/she wants updated. We'll let the user manage branches with |
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> git directly. |
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> ''' |
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> To that end, I think the answer is no. |
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I answered the initial question off-list, copying the list this time. |
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It's actually it's possible. |
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sync-git-clone-extra-opts = -b branchname |
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will clone only single branch and will create a shallow clone. |
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all the future syncs will pull this branch as explained above in the source |
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code snippet. |
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> If this were to change, there are a bunch of questions that would need |
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> agreement in how they are answered: - if the repo's remote URI has changed, |
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> should we update the git checkout's remote URI from sync-uri? (what if |
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> there are multiple remotes in the checkout?) - if the repo's branch has |
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> changed in the config, should we update the checkout's branch? |
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