[cdt-dev] best practice for long running task (git clone) after project

[Tim Orling <ticotimo@xxxxxxxxx>]

We have a project template process which clones a git repository into the project folder after the initial project template's source files have been copied in. The problem is that this clone process can take 20-40 seconds and during that time the project creation wizard UI is totally unresponsive. The git repo source is also inside a Docker container, which may be compounding the delay. Even using the "docker exec -i" technique which helped solve our gdb problem doesn't help. The console never updates until the project template process completes.

Any pointers to a better way to achieve this? Is there a hook for a post-project-creation task?

Regards,

--Tim (Intel)