Re: [edk2-devel] [RFC] UnitTestFrameworkPkg cmocka submodule alternatives

["Michael D Kinney" <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>]

Hi Rebecca,

Thank you for the reminder.  I have entered a BZ and sent a patch for review

https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3301

https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/73744

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bsdio.com>
> Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2021 4:43 PM
> To: devel@edk2.groups.io; Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>; rfc@edk2.groups.io; 'Bret Barkelew'
> <Bret.Barkelew@microsoft.com>; Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>; Gao, Liming <liming.gao@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [RFC] UnitTestFrameworkPkg cmocka submodule alternatives
> 
> On 12/19/20 11:58 AM, Michael D Kinney wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > There have been a few suggestions to create a mirror of cmocka in TianoCore
> > org in GitHub.
> >
> > I have found a GitHub action that can do a repo sync.
> >
> >      https://github.com/marketplace/actions/github-repo-sync
> >
> > I have created a temporary mirror of cmocka in my personal GitHub area that
> > uses this GitHub action to sync all branches and all tags once a day.
> >
> >      https://github.com/mdkinney/mirror-cmocka
> >
> > Here is the GitHub workflow file.  It must be in the default branch for the
> > repo using a branch name that is not present in the repo being mirrored.
> > In this case, I used a branch name of 'repo-sync'.
> >
> >      https://github.com/mdkinney/mirror-cmocka/blob/repo-sync/.github/workflows/repo-sync.yml
> >
> > Please provide feedback on this approach.  If we like this approach, then
> > I suggest we create a new repo in TianoCore called edk2-cmocka that is a
> > mirror that is synced once a day and we update the cmocka submodule in the
> > edk2 repo to use edk2-cmocka.
> 
> I just noticed this never got committed:
> https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/.gitmodules still shows
> the old URL.
> 
> --
> Rebecca Cran