[CMake] ExternalProject_Add support for git clone -o option

[Adam Rankin]

My use case is for forked repositories and sending pull requests upstream. In this case "origin" is ambiguous as manage both remotes and I would like to give the cloned repository a more accurate name.

Cheers,
Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: Nicholas Braden [mailto:nicholas11braden at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 12:02 PM
To: Adam Rankin <arankin at robarts.ca>
Cc: cmake at cmake.org
Subject: Re: [CMake] ExternalProject_Add support for git clone -o option

Why would you like to have names other than origin? I am struggling to think of a use case for this, seeing as you never directly interact with the cloned repository. I don't even think it's safe to assume that a git repository is involved at all, for all you know it could be changed to just download the code and never even involve git. (Maybe it is guaranteed somewhere but I don't see such a guarantee in the
documentation)

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Adam Rankin <arankin at robarts.ca> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>
>
> I am reading through the ExternalProject source for 3.2 at the moment 
> (if updating to 3.4 is the answer, great!) and trying to determine if 
> there is support for the –o option when using a git repository.
>
>
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> Has anyone accomplished this? I would like to have names other than “origin”
>
>
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> Cheers,
>
> Adam
>
>
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