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

[Robert Yang]

On 04/05/2016 10:47 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 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.

Thank you very much.

// Robert

>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>