action #161771
Updated by mkittler about 1 month ago
## Motivation
Consider transient openQA instances like openQA-single-instance-container but also new instances where we do not want to rely on admins to manually put stuff into /var/lib/openqa/share/tests. For those we want to ensure that openQA automatically clones git repos specified as part of tests but also keeps those working copies up to date. In #159171 mostly https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/pull/5622 was merged but AFAIK we have neither a system level test demonstrating that behaviour nor documentation explaining the functionality.
## Acceptance criteria
* **AC1:** Documentation and/or system level tests demonstrate the functionality introduced in #159171
* **AC2:** Assuming #159171 does what it promises then openqa-in-openqa tests as well as openqa-bootstrap should not clone tests+needles but rely on openQA to do that
## Suggestions
* Get to understand the original feature if you haven't had the opportunity yet
* Add documentation on open.qa
* Enable the feature in one of the openQA-in-openQA test scenarios and remove the manual checkout
* Fix any minor issues coming up from the system level testing as needed