parser_add.set_defaults(func=add)
parser_modify = subparsers.add_parser('modify', help='Modify the source for an existing recipe',
- description='Enables modifying the source for an existing recipe. You can either provide your own pre-prepared source tree, or specify -x/--extract to extract the source being fetched by the recipe.',
+ description='Sets up the build environment to modify the source for an existing recipe. The default behaviour is to extract the source being fetched by the recipe into a git tree so you can work on it; alternatively if you already have your own pre-prepared source tree you can specify -n/--no-extract.',
group='starting', order=90)
parser_modify.add_argument('recipename', help='Name of existing recipe to edit (just name - no version, path or extension)')
parser_modify.add_argument('srctree', nargs='?', help='Path to external source tree. If not specified, a subdirectory of %s will be used.' % defsrctree)
group = parser_modify.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
group.add_argument('--same-dir', '-s', help='Build in same directory as source', action="store_true")
group.add_argument('--no-same-dir', help='Force build in a separate build directory', action="store_true")
- parser_modify.add_argument('--branch', '-b', default="devtool", help='Name for development branch to checkout (only when using -x) (default "%(default)s")')
+ parser_modify.add_argument('--branch', '-b', default="devtool", help='Name for development branch to checkout (when not using -n/--no-extract) (default "%(default)s")')
parser_modify.set_defaults(func=modify)
parser_extract = subparsers.add_parser('extract', help='Extract the source for an existing recipe',