[OE-core] [PATCH] buildhistory: record removals with Git 2.0 and later

[Jonathan Liu]

On 31/05/2013 8:29 PM, Jonathan Liu wrote:
> On 31/05/2013 7:42 PM, Jonathan Liu wrote:
>> There is a behavior change with Git 2.0 where "git add ." will no
>> longer record removals by default unless -A (--all) is specified.
>> Change to "git add -A ." so removals are recorded with Git 2.0 and
>> later.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Liu <net147 at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>   meta/classes/buildhistory.bbclass | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> Hmm... looks like I interpreted the Git warning incorrectly. Maybe I 
> need to look into this a bit more and perhaps change the commit message.
>
> The following appears after a build with buildhistory enabled:
> warning: You ran 'git add' with neither '-A (--all)' or 
> '--ignore-removal',
> whose behaviour will change in Git 2.0 with respect to paths you removed.
> Paths like 'test.txt' that are
> removed from your working tree are ignored with this version of Git.
>
> * 'git add --ignore-removal <pathspec>', which is the current default,
>   ignores paths you removed from your working tree.
>
> * 'git add --all <pathspec>' will let you also record the removals.
>
> Run 'git status' to check the paths you removed from your working tree.
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan
The warning appears in Git 1.8.3. The path removed was the package 
information for a kernel module after updating from 3.8.11 to 3.8.13.

Regards,
Jonathan