CMake/Help/policy/CMP0150.rst
Brad King ad3c2c0b03 Help: Normalize and consolidate standard policy advice paragraph
Every policy's documentation has a paragraph on what version of CMake
introduced it, how to set the policy, and whether CMake warns if the
policy is not set.  The wording of this paragraph has diverged across
policies over time.  Factor the paragraph out into a standard advice
document included by every policy.
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CMP0150
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.. versionadded:: 3.27
:command:`ExternalProject_Add` and :command:`FetchContent_Declare` commands
treat relative ``GIT_REPOSITORY`` paths as being relative to the parent
project's remote.
Earlier versions of these commands always treated relative paths in
``GIT_REPOSITORY`` as local paths, but the base directory it was treated
as relative to was both undocumented and unintuitive. The ``OLD`` behavior
for this policy is to interpret relative paths used for ``GIT_REPOSITORY``
as local paths relative to the following:
* The parent directory of ``SOURCE_DIR`` for :command:`ExternalProject_Add`.
* ``FETCHCONTENT_BASE_DIR`` for :command:`FetchContent_Declare`.
The ``NEW`` behavior is to determine the remote from the parent project and
interpret the path relative to that remote. The value of
:variable:`CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR` when :command:`ExternalProject_Add` or
:command:`FetchContent_Declare` is called determines the parent project.
The remote is selected according to the following (the first match is used):
* If the parent project is checked out on a branch with an upstream remote
defined, use that remote.
* If only one remote is defined, use that remote.
* If multiple remotes are defined and one of them is named ``origin``, use
``origin``'s remote but also issue a warning.
If an appropriate remote cannot be determined from the above, a fatal error
will be raised.
.. |INTRODUCED_IN_CMAKE_VERSION| replace:: 3.27
.. |WARNS_OR_DOES_NOT_WARN| replace::
warns when a relative path is encountered
.. include:: STANDARD_ADVICE.txt
.. include:: DEPRECATED.txt