From 54ba5b6c7040ff61444d546e3b14b111e0aeff72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Clifford Yapp <238416+starseeker@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:04:36 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add a note to beef up the git clone logic for the release
 case.

---
 misc/CMake/BRLCAD_EXT_Setup.cmake | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/misc/CMake/BRLCAD_EXT_Setup.cmake b/misc/CMake/BRLCAD_EXT_Setup.cmake
index 425fbe4463..425aa1f2e3 100644
--- a/misc/CMake/BRLCAD_EXT_Setup.cmake
+++ b/misc/CMake/BRLCAD_EXT_Setup.cmake
@@ -128,6 +128,12 @@ function(brlcad_ext_setup)
 
       # If not, next up is a bext dir in the build directory.  If
       # one doesn't already exist, try to clone it
+
+      # TODO - need to use the ls-remote trick from above to first check for a branch
+      # in bext that corresponds to the current release - if we have one, we should
+      # be using that.  As it stands, old releases will pull the very latest release's
+      # dependencies with this clone, which may not work.  We want this only if there
+      # isn't a matching versioned release branch.
       set(BRLCAD_EXT_SOURCE_DIR ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/bext)
       if (NOT EXISTS ${BRLCAD_EXT_SOURCE_DIR})
 	find_program(GIT_EXEC git REQUIRED)