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| author | Jan Kundrát <jan.kundrat@cesnet.cz> | 2019-06-10 15:37:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> | 2019-06-23 22:15:55 +0200 |
| commit | 10e05d4a3c9b1bd1da978efbeaba3bc26d883fe4 (patch) | |
| tree | 9d930760c43b2d73ab5d7b22b3ed5f3e72adea99 /docs | |
| parent | 80dcda334c493678c435066e81c82a4bd68eabd9 (diff) | |
docs: use-case for un-ignoring VCS directories and overridden source dir
Signed-off-by: Jan Kundrát <jan.kundrat@cesnet.cz>
Suggested-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Fixes: a27078d32d Allow overriding the VCS exclude list with *_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR_RSYNC_EXCLUSIONS
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
(cherry picked from commit f52809cbd2329dabb7ce98683ca884ca04c118f0)
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/manual/using-buildroot-development.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manual/using-buildroot-development.txt b/docs/manual/using-buildroot-development.txt index 65a9f1a3f7..da6dd822fb 100644 --- a/docs/manual/using-buildroot-development.txt +++ b/docs/manual/using-buildroot-development.txt @@ -109,3 +109,13 @@ WEBKITGTK_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR_RSYNC_EXCLUSIONS = \ --exclude WebDriverTests --exclude WebKitBuild --exclude WebKitLibraries \ --exclude WebKit.xcworkspace --exclude Websites --exclude Examples ------------------ + +By default, Buildroot skips syncing of VCS artifacts (e.g., the *.git* and +*.svn* directories). Some packages prefer to have these VCS directories +available during build, for example for automatically determining a precise +commit reference for version information. To undo this built-in filtering at a +cost of a slower speed, add these directories back: + +------------------ +LINUX_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR_RSYNC_EXCLUSIONS = --include .git +------------------ |