[CMake] external project add, clone without history

[Miklos Espak]

That's great, I will try that.

Thanks very much,
Miklos

On 25 February 2015 at 23:32, J. Caleb Wherry <calebwherry at gmail.com> wrote:

> Miklos,
>
> I did a quick test and using the DOWNLOAD_COMMAND option to
> ExternalProject_Add works nicely:
>
> ExternalProject_Add(sfml
>   PREFIX ${sfml_PREFIX}
>   DOWNLOAD_COMMAND git clone --depth 1
> https://github.com/LaurentGomila/SFML.git
>   INSTALL_DIR ${sfml_INSTALL_DIR}
>   CMAKE_ARGS ${sfml_CMAKE_ARGS}
> )
>
> I could not, however, get it to work along with specifying the
> GIT_REPOSITORY option. I believe this is because using the DOWNLOAD_COMMAND
> completely overrides all other download options.
>
> I think this is the best way to get what you want. I'm surprised no one
> else has commented since cloning a git repo with submodules needs the
> 'recursive' option to actually pull in the submodule code. It's a similar
> problem you are facing with needing to pass in extra options to the
> download executable.
>
> -Caleb
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Miklos Espak <m.espak at ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> is it possible to specify the --depth 1 argument in ExternalProject_Add
>> for cloning projects from git?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Miklos
>>
>>
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