Reimported release into Git repo fails to build

[anjohnson]

One line in googletest/.gitignore makes this module fail to build after reimporting it into a new git repo:

gtest/googletest/.gitignore

Line 52 in bfec0b6

Makefile

With that present the following rather important files aren't added to the new git repository:

• googletest/googlemock/include/Makefile
• googletest/googlemock/src/Makefile
• googletest/googletest/include/Makefile
• googletest/googletest/src/Makefile

APS may be unusual in doing this reimport, but it's a policy we follow for all EPICS modules.

Deleting line 52 or giving it an absolute path like on line 56 solves this problem.

[ralphlange]

Ack.

This operation is mixing up generated and source Makefiles...
What is your procedure for this "reimport"?

[anjohnson]

#!/bin/bash

# GitHub project info: epics-modules/$GHMOD tagged $GHTAG
GHURL=https://github.com/epics-modules
GHMOD=gtest
GHTAG=v1.0.1

# APS GitLab project info: /APS/epics-modules/$APSMOD tag $APSTAG
APSURL=git@gitlab.anl.gov:APS/epics-modules
APSMOD=$GHMOD
APSTAG=1.0.1

# Fetch the released sources and extract
curl -L ${GHURL}/${GHMOD}/archive/refs/tags/${GHTAG}.tar.gz | tar xfz -
cd ${GHMOD}-${GHTAG} || exit 1

git init .
git add .
git commit -m "Initial import of $APSTAG"
git tag $APSTAG
git branch upstream

git rm -rf --ignore-unmatch .ci .travis.yml .gitmodules .github .hg*

git remote add origin ${APSURL}/${APSMOD}.git

After running that it usually requires some manual steps and commits to create a configure/MODULES file for Sumo and configure it to build, apply a local tag and git push everything to our GitLab. I have another script for pulling updates, which also get imported verbatim into the upstream branch and the changes since the previous import merged into our main branch.

The cd command above actually broke for gtest, it looks like GitHub published the tagged sources as .tar.gz inside a subdirectory that didn't have the initial v from your tag. I haven't looked to see if that's unique to gtest or a recent change at GitHub though.