SubmoduleAlternateRemotes on Linux #265
Description
Testing the edkrepo SubmoduleAlternateRemotes section as a workaround for checking out old Tianocore Edk2 stable tags that were impacted by the submodule removal, but don't have the commit workaround.
commit workaround:
tianocore/edk2@95d8a1c
edkrepo workaround:
<SubmoduleAlternateRemotes>
<SubmoduleAlternateRemote originalUrl="https://github.com/Zeex/subhook.git" remote="Edk2Repo">https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-subhook.git</SubmoduleAlternateRemote>
</SubmoduleAlternateRemotes>
Part of this feature calls edkrepo write_conditional_include() function to add includeIf to the global .gitconfig file.
The syntax used is different for GitVersion('2.34.0') and later, adding the addition of '%(prefix)' to the includeIf and path.
https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-edkrepo/blob/main/edkrepo/common/common_repo_functions.py#L180-L202
git version 2.43.0.windows.1 on Windows 11, the feature is functioning fine.
git 2.47 in Linux and git version 2.39.5 in Linux there is a report that '%(prefix)' is preventing the includeIf from functioning, and the original subhook URL is still attempted to be used.
alternate Linux system workaround, if cloning an edkrepo project that uses SubmoduleAlternateRemotes for old Tianocore Edk2 repo stable tags, configure the url insteadof setting globally before cloning the edkrepo project.
git config --global url."https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-subhook.git".insteadof "https://github.com/Zeex/subhook.git"