git download plugin

[Johannes Zellner]

Auke Kok wrote:
> samuel verstraete wrote:
>   
>> i'd still like some confirmation on this sofar...
>> it checks out correctly but i do not have the impression that it takes
>> the branch thing into account... is that possible? or did i just
>> overlook something?
>>     
>
> right now the git plugin doesn't know anything about branches - it will 
> discard everything after the : and just do an entire clone. The plugin needs 
> to be taught how to work with branches somehow, which is complicated because 
> git-clone does not know anything about branches.
>
> Auke
>   
Hola...I just rewrote the xgl-cvs module to use git and because of this 
branch thing, my workaround is:

SOURCE_URL=git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver

And in the BUILD file:

git checkout -f xgl-0-0-1

And everything works fine AFAIK

Thanks,
Johannes