[bitbake-devel] [meta-ti] trouble during parsing

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 08:44 -0500, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> If the purpose of the ls-remote is to match a tag with a hash,
> wouldn't it be easier to just:
> 
>     cat .git/refs/tags/<tagid>
> 
> ?

If the git clone hasn't happened yet, this doesn't work.

> And if the purpose of knowing the tagid is to use that version of the
> code, wouldn't it be easier to just:
> 
>     git checkout <tagid>

That isn't the only purpose.

Cheers,

Richard