'newt new' should not do shallow copy of blinky repo

Open sjanc opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

For blinky repo we need full clone as release tag may no longer be on top of master...

[janc@ix test]$ newt new my_proj Downloading project skeleton from apache/mynewt-blinky... Downloading repository mynewt-blinky (commit: master) from https://github.com/apache/mynewt-blinky.git WARNING: Creating a shallow clone by default. To unshallow repository later use "git fetch --unshallow". Error: error: pathspec 'mynewt_1_10_0_tag' did not match any file(s) known to git

[janc@ix test]$ newt new --shallow=0 my_proj Downloading project skeleton from apache/mynewt-blinky... Downloading repository mynewt-blinky (commit: master) from https://github.com/apache/mynewt-blinky.git Installing skeleton in my_proj (commit: mynewt_1_10_0_rc1_tag) Project my_proj successfully created.

May 20 '22 13:05 sjanc

after more testing, we should never do shallow by default... this should be opt-in only option

Oct 20 '22 09:10 sjanc