combo-layer-tools

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Paul Eggleton paul.eggleton@intel.com
6/13/11

to Otavio, openembedded-c. 
On Monday 13 June 2011 16:33:47 Otavio Salvador wrote:
> I think it is duplicating many features of git submodule. It seems
> more logical to put a script above git submodule rather then use a
> full repository for it.

You're right in that git submodule provides a lot of these things. However,
submodules don't give us the ability to split out and maintain just certain
subdirectories / files; this allows us to bring in parts of external layers
where the parts of that layer we want are not split out neatly into a
subdirectory.

In the case of the Poky repository (where there the need for this tool
originated) as a user rather than a maintainer, having a single repository to
check out from with no other special steps makes things much easier and
cleaner. Frankly I'm not terribly impressed with how submodules have been
implemented in git - they are not at all easy to use.

Cheers,
Paul