[bitbake-devel] [PATCH 1/1] fetch2/git.py: remove .indirectiondir workaround

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2016-04-05 at 14:36 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-04-05 at 03:35 -0700, Robert Yang wrote:
> > It was used for workaround git 1.7.9.2 which was released in 2012
> > which
> > should not be existed on nowadays host, so remove it to avoid
> > confusions.
> 
> I like the idea of this however:
> 
> $ cat classes/sanity.bbclass | grep 7.8
> # We use git parameters and functionality only found in 1.7.8 or
> later
>     if LooseVersion(version) < LooseVersion("1.7.8"):
>         return "Your version of git is older than 1.7.8 and has bugs
> which will break builds. Please install a newer version of git.\n"
> 
> so we have a minimum version of 1.7.8 defined right now...
> 
> I'd be ok merging this if we increase the minimum version
> requirement.

There is also another issue pending on increased git version so I've
just sent a patch for this, which would then unblock this one.

Cheers,

Richard