changed wheezy dockerfile to install git version > 1.7 to support local submodule cloning

tools/dockerfile/test/cxx_wheezy_x64/Dockerfile

@@ -63,6 +63,13 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
 # Build profiling
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y time && apt-get clean
 
+#================
+# Add backport to Debian sources.list and update git to version > 1.7
+RUN echo "deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-backports main" \
+  >/etc/apt/sources.list.d/wheezy-backports.list
+RUN apt-get update -qq
+RUN apt-get -t wheezy-backports install -y -qq git mercurial
+
 #====================
 # Python dependencies
 

tools/run_tests/dockerize/docker_run_tests.sh

@@ -43,20 +43,10 @@ chown $(whoami) $XDG_CACHE_HOME
 
 mkdir -p /var/local/git
 git clone  /var/local/jenkins/grpc /var/local/git/grpc
-
+# clone gRPC submodules, use data from locally cloned submodules where possible
-# (todo (mattkwong): the /var/local/jenkins/grpc has no submodules and boringssl 
+(cd /var/local/jenkins/grpc/ && git submodule foreach 'cd /var/local/git/grpc \
-# has non-submodule files in it. Figure out how to fix this for local cloning 
+&& git submodule update --init --reference /var/local/jenkins/grpc/${name} \
-## this prints to console "reports reports.zip"
+${name}')
-# ls /var/local/jenkins/grpc/third_party/boringssl
-## none of these print anything (empty directory)
-# ls /var/local/jenkins/grpc/third_party/gflags
-# ls /var/local/jenkins/grpc/third_party/googletest
-# ls /var/local/jenkins/grpc/third_party/nanopb
-# ls /var/local/jenkins/grpc/third_party/protobuf
-# ls /var/local/jenkins/grpc/third_party/thrift
-# ls /var/local/jenkins/grpc/third_party/zlib
-
-(cd /var/local/git/grpc && git submodule update --init --recursive )
 
 mkdir -p reports