[PATCH modular] Perform arbitrary git or make commands.

Trevor Woerner twoerner at gmail.com
Fri Sep 24 12:27:44 PDT 2010


On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 00:15 -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> I don't see a need to forbid the usage of "git clone". Just like we should
> not forbid "make clean" if we
> allow "-c" again.

The existing "--clone" option specifies whether or not missing code
should be cloned from the git repository. There'd be no point in
trying something like:

$> util/modular/build.sh --cmd "git clone"

Because by not providing the "--clone" option you're not allowing
repositories to be cloned. So the above command says: "for each
repository please run the 'git clone' command, but if the source code
doesn't exist on my computer, you're not allowed to perform a clone to
get it, fail out instead"


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