[cmake-developers] Question about fetching big repositories with ExternalProject_Add

[Ben Boeckel]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 16:50:21 +0100, Workbench at gmx.at wrote:
> i play around much with ExternalProject_Add and i found some kind of
> "error". When fetching big repositories like llvm cmake don't show any
> output when cloning the repository which makes the user believe cmake
> stucks, is there a way to show the clone process with
> ExternalProject_Add() so the user does not believe cmake is stuck ??
> It's find with normal repositories, but for example with llvm it's a
> nightmare.

There's the `GIT_PROGRESS 1` argument you can pass.

--Ben