CMP0150 — CMake 4.1.4 Documentation

# CMP0150

Added in version 3.27.

`ExternalProject_Add()` and `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 `ExternalProject_Add()`.

- `FETCHCONTENT_BASE_DIR` for `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 `CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR` when `ExternalProject_Add()` or `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.

This policy was introduced in CMake version 3.27. It may be set by `cmake_policy()` or `cmake_minimum_required()`. If it is not set, CMake warns when a relative path is encountered, and uses `OLD` behavior.

Note

The `OLD` behavior of a policy is `deprecated by definition` and may be removed in a future version of CMake.