[Bro] Bro Digest, Vol 148, Issue 20

Jeffrey Poore openshift.ninja at gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 09:04:57 PDT 2018


Just wanted to give a shout out to Jon - thank you! This worked like a 
charm.

>It is, however Bro's git repos uses submodules and those release
>tarfiles are automatically created by GitHub and they do not support
>git submodules (it's a feature GitHub would have to implement).
>
>And if you were to recursively clone from GitHub, you'd still have the
>problem that the submodule URLs point at git.bro.org.  So to
>recursively clone purely from GitHub you could try some git URL
>rewriting tricks:
>
>  git config --global url.https://github.com/bro.insteadOf 
>git://git.bro.org
>  git clone --recursive https://github.com/bro/bro.git
>
>The first command writes to your ~/.config file and so will alter all
>subsequent git commands.  There's probably some way to roll that into
>the clone command via `git -c ...` if you need to.  You can also
>specify desired branch/tag via a flag to the clone command.
>
>- Jon




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