src.git test repository

[Iain Sandoe]

Hi Tom,

thanks for doing this!

On 7 Oct 2013, at 17:56, Tom Tromey wrote:

> HJ> I noticed that binutils-2_24-branch only has binutils source.
> HJ> How will binutils-2_25-branch be made?  Will it include gdb
> HJ> source?
> 
> It's up to the binutils developers.
> 
> What I recommend is branching the whole repository and then doing
> tarball releases of a subset of the branch, using the usual src-release
> mechanism.

I had a go this evening (with success) doing the following:

cloned src 
built a sparse checkout by hand for 'binutils'
and built a cross from x86-64-darwin12 -> powerpc-linux-gnu

All seems OK, but I think I lost track of where the discussion had got to on sparse checkouts, building the .git/info/sparse-checkout file by hand is tedious.

somewhere to put the recipes/defaults corresponding to the existing checkouts would be handy.
or did I miss it?
Iain