Recently I’ve been playing around with jhbuild. I wanted to jhbuild to use a custom branch from a git repo I’ve setup. \u00a0Sadly the documentation on how to do this is a little lacking. Added to the fact that the jhbuild code drops an argument and there’s a lot of fun at work.<\/p>\n
The solution, use the revision attribute in your module set file:<\/p>\n
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\u00a0<repository type=”git” name=”git.freedesktop.org”\u00a0\u00a0 href=”git:\/\/anongit.freedesktop.org\/”\/> \u00a0<\/p>\n This checks out the ir branch of the repo: git:\/\/anongit.freedesktop.org\/~benjsc\/xorg\/proto\/compositeproto class GitRepository<\/span><\/p>\n …<\/p>\n def branch(self, name, module = None, subdir=””, checkoutdir = None, \u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\u00a0<branch repo=”git.freedesktop.org”\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0module=”~benjsc\/xorg\/proto\/compositeproto” checkoutdir=”xorg\/proto\/compositeproto” <\/span>revision=”ir”<\/span><\/em><\/strong> \/><\/span><\/p>\n
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\nFor those looking at the jhbuild code, you can see the fun with the dropped argument:<\/p>\n
\n <\/span> <\/span>revision = None, tag = None):
\n <\/span> <\/span>if name in self.config.branches:
\n <\/span> <\/span>module = self.config.branches[name]
\n <\/span> <\/span>if not module:
\n <\/span> <\/span>raise FatalError(_(‘branch for %s has wrong override, check your .jhbuildrc’) % name)
\n <\/span> <\/span>else:
\n <\/span> <\/span>if module is None:
\n <\/span> <\/span>module = name
\n <\/span> <\/span>module = urlparse.urljoin(self.href, module)
\n <\/span> <\/span>return GitBranch(self, module, subdir, checkoutdir, revision, tag<\/em><\/span>)<\/strong><\/p>\n