android check out from master

[krishna chaitanya]

Hi All,

If I download android from master, which version of the android do i
get?
Will I get the latest version or the old one.
Do I get the honeycomb version of android or gingerbread? Which
version of the android does the master have currently?

Thanks.

Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya.

[Jean-Baptiste Queru]

It's mostly gingerbread-ish, with a few hundred honeycomb changes and
a handful or two of post-honeycomb changes. I don't expect it to be
very stable for day-to-day use.

JBQ

On Friday, April 29, 2011, krishna chaitanya

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[woongiap]

I did a "repo branches" after "repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git" but I got "(no branches)". Shouldn't it at least showing "master"?

Thanks.

[Jean-Baptiste Queru]

Actually, that's correct. The default state is to have no local
branches (which is why 'repo branches' shows nothing), and a detached
HEAD that is moved by repo sync to match upstream.

JBQ

[woongiap]

Thanks.
But there is no something like "repo tag" command. Is the only way to build different android versions doing "repo init" again with branch name?

[Jean-Baptiste Queru]

Yes.

The important aspect to keep in mind is that each version of uses a
different list of projects, which is stored in that version's
manifest.

Any operation that works individually on all the projects of a given
version in hopes of switching to another version is pretty much
guaranteed to fail. It's critically important to update the list of
projects first, which is what repo init does.

Note that switching versions within a client doesn't cause a full
re-download of everything, only the projects that are in the new
version but weren't in the original one.

JBQ

[Doug Reiland]

due to the way my team uses tags, I thought the need to sync  to a given tag as important and patched in support to repo.

 

repo sync --tag <tagname>

 

If there is interest, I can publish.

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 9:44 PM, woongiap <woon...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks.
But there is no something like "repo tag" command. Is the only way to build different android versions doing "repo init" again with branch name?

[woongiap]

Thanks. Will do in this way then.

[Magnus Bäck]

On Tuesday, May 03, 2011 at 20:33 CEST,
Doug Reiland <drei...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 9:44 PM, woongiap <woon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > But there is no something like "repo tag" command. Is the only way
> > to build different android versions doing "repo init" again with
> > branch name?
>

> due to the way my team uses tags, I thought the need to sync to a
> given tag as important and patched in support to repo.
>
> repo sync --tag <tagname>
>
> If there is interest, I can publish.

What does it do? Check out a new manifest revision and run sync? Just
check out a particular tag in all gits?

Anyway, this discussion is better suited for the repo-discuss list.
Follow-ups to that list, please.

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[Steven Yong]

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Doug Reiland <drei...@gmail.com> wrote:
> due to the way my team uses tags, I thought the need to sync  to a given tag
> as important and patched in support to repo.
>
> repo sync --tag <tagname>
>
> If there is interest, I can publish.

Thanks a lot, that's the thing I am looking forward to.
Appreciate if you could notify me once it is published.

Steven