[bitbake-devel] [OE-core] git fetcher sanity check for matching branch and SRCREV

[Nicolas Dechesne]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com>wrote:

> Unfortunately we cannot "disable" this check by explicitly setting empty
> branch or setting tag=1.0.12
>
> I can ask yajl owner to push that one missing patch to 1.x branch, but
> there were no changes in last 11 months so I don't know how responsive
> he will be and there could be similar case in different recipes where
> the upstream could be completely gone.
>
> As side note, should bitbake do the same check when tag=foo is
> specified?
>

well, my 2 cents.. I think that keeping tags without a branch is a 'valid'
feature in git, whether we like it or not, and we won't be able to make
sure no upstream do that... so we probably need to support use of a tag in
SRC_URI as well, not just branches.

cheers

nicolas
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