[Development] Managing branches of Qt's git modules

[Sergio Martins]

On 2016-09-30 11:39, Sean Harmer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> just a query as to how people do bulk checkouts of different branches
> when working with the Qt git modules. It would be nice to be able to
> use git submodule foreach ... but this is a problem because not all
> modules use the same branching scheme.
> 
> So, what do people do to checkout all interesting modules to 5.7, 5.8,
> dev etc on Unix like systems and on Windows?

I have my own set of scripts which automate that and abstracts the 
underlying platform.

$ build_stuff.py x86_64 qtbase,qtdeclarative,gammaray 5.6 --clean --pull

So I can build for mac, linux, windows, android, QNX without having to 
remember specifics.

> On *nix systems I've been getting away with a simple bash for loop.
> But on windows I find this painful but maybe that's just my
> unfamiliarity with windows batch scripts.

That's because Windows is painful. Invest some time tweaking it until 
you can have the same workflows as you have on linux. You'll be happier.



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