luarocks-fetch-gitrec

LuaRocks fetcher module that clones git repositories recursively.

The code is a modified copy of the luarocks.fetch.git module distributed with LuaRocks which is responsible for getting sources from git repositories. In contrast to that module the git repositories are cloned recursively (with the --recursive flag to the git command line client) to fetch git submodules as well.

To use this module reference it in the dependencies table in your rockspec (to make sure that it is installed when needed) and put one of the supported URL schemes in the source.url field.

Example:

package = "my_package"
version = "0.1-1"
source = {
  url = "gitrec+https://github.com/user/my_package.git" -- !!
}
dependencies = {
  "lua >= 5.1, < 5.4",
  "luarocks-fetch-gitrec", -- !!
}
description = {
  -- ...
}
build = {
  -- ...
}

Supported URL schemes are at the moment:

• gitrec://... (uses the "git" protocol; works with GitHub)
• gitrec+http://... (uses the "http" protocol; works with GitHub)
• gitrec+https://... (uses the "https" protocol; works with GitHub)
• gitrec+file://... (for local repositories)
• gitrec+ssh://... (uses the "ssh" protocol)