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

[Gary Thomas]

On 2013-02-25 07:01, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 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.

Additionally, the problem is that tags can move and the revid
will change.  Hence the need to probe the source GIT for the answer.

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