Implementation of bazel git repositories using Skylark Repository rules

This repository reimplements Bazel's git_repository and new_git_repository rules using Skylark repository functions to shell out to the system git.

Shelling out to the git binary gets us support for ssh clones, which the built-in support doesn't include.

The functions in this repository are currently called native_git_repository and new_native_git_repository, where "native" is meant to connote "the system-native git implementation". The names are subject to change.

These rules currently require bazel 0.2.1 or newer. As of this writing, 0.2.1 is in rc and rc1 can be downloaded from https://storage.googleapis.com/bazel/0.2.1/rc1/index.html

Usage

Add the following code to your WORKSPACE file:

git_repository(
    name = "com_github_nelhage_bazel_git_repositories",
    remote = "https://github.com/nelhage/bazel_git_repositories",
    tag = "v2",
)

load(
    "@com_github_nelhage_bazel_git_repositories//:repositories.bzl",
    "new_native_git_repository",
    "native_git_repository",
)

Then you should be able to use native_git_repository and new_native_git_repository rules:

native_git_repository(
    name = "my_repository",
    remote = "git@github.com:MyAccount/my_repository.git",
    commit = "master",
)

new_native_git_repository(
	name = "my_other_repository",
	remote = "git@github.com:MyAccount/my_other_repository.git"
	build_file = "my_other_repository.BUILD",
    tag = "v1.1",
)

ianoc/bazel_git_repositories

Implementation of bazel git repositories using Skylark Repository rules

Usage