git download plugin

[Auke Kok]

Johannes Zellner wrote:
> 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

that's cool, and fixes it, and I think I can actually incorporate this in the 
plugin without much problems...

Auke