git submodules broke nightly PPA builds

[takluyver]

The bzr importer apparently can't handle git submodules yet. This means that we no longer get nightly PPA builds, which are really useful for dogfooding. I wonder if there's some way to create a mirror which 'expands' the submodule into a regular folder.

A commenter on this issue said:

I myself created cron script (for lp:qutim) with the following contents:
#!/bin/bash
cd /path/to/qutim-replica
git pull origin master
git submodule update --init --recursive
bzr stat -S|grep ^?|sed 's/^? //'| while read LINE; do bzr add "$LINE"; done
bzr ci -m "Cron update"
bzr push

You also have to add ..git* to your .bzrignore.

[juliantaylor]

I wanted to setup a mirror, but did not get to it yet, I'll try to look into it this weekend.

[takluyver]

Thanks Julian.

[juliantaylor]

daily builds should be working again, the first build will happen in a few hours.