[CMake] ctest & git submodules
NoRulez
norulez at me.com
Wed Feb 27 00:36:21 EST 2013
I think for the --tags option it is the same, isn't it?
How can I set such option for the checkout/update command?
Best Regards
Am 26.02.2013 um 22:50 schrieb Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com>:
> On 2/26/2013 2:52 PM, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin wrote:
>> +1 to add these into CTest :) What would be the argument against it ?
>
> Not every project wants every submodule checked out all the time.
> A major use case for them is to have an umbrella project with many
> submodules and the developer may only checkout and work on some.
> Some may even be proprietary and inaccessible to some machines.
>
>>> However, it seems to me that ctest already does a
>>> git submodule update --recurse
>
> This is the proper command to update everything that is already
> to configured to checkout in the source tree.
>
>>> but its missing the --init flag to deal with changes to the
>>> .gitmodules file.
>> It also misses git submodule sync to deal with changes in git
>> submodule URL,
>
> These are all intentionally missing for the above reason. We
> should honor the user's configuration. Maybe they intentionally
> use a custom url for a submodule for the branch they test. We
> should not blow away their configuration by default.
>
>> and reset --hard etc.
>
> We do a reset --hard at the top level but I do not think we
> do it in the submodules. That may be worth adding, perhaps
> with git submodule foreach.
>
>> We have just been dealing with a
>> few of these issues and currently call git directly to sync, init, and
>> then use submodule foreach to reset and clean all submodules before
>> updating.
>
> That is the expected way to deal with it. The local dashboard
> script knows if it needs to preserve the user config or not.
>
> We could also consider adding options for ctest_update to
> tell it to init, sync, etc., but it should not be the default.
>
> -Brad
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