[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57044] Use gnulib without hg subrepo and `bootstrap` with proper revision control

[Kai Torben Ohlhus]

Follow-up Comment #36, bug #57044 (project octave):

I think this "failure" you expect is that one "fatal: reference is not a
tree":


GNULIB_REVISION=24d438e5e579478a4c4d4fece2f10a68a1836268 ./bootstrap

./bootstrap: Bootstrapping from checked-out octave sources...
fatal: reference is not a tree: 24d438e5e579478a4c4d4fece2f10a68a1836268
<dead>


In this case bootstrap was not able to checkout the correct git id and died. 
The reason was in my scenario (comment #34) that git could not find this id in
the gnulib repo (as I cut the internet connection and was in an old state).

As soon as the git ID is fetched, it is really hard to provoke a failure
scenario.  bootstrap does really a good job, if you do not make it suffer too
much with border cases.

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