[OE-core] ^{} what is it good for? (bitbake problem)

[Steffen Sledz]

On 04.06.2014 10:29, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On 14-06-04 10:06 +0200, Steffen Sledz wrote:
>> So what is this ^{} which comes from lib/bb/fetch2/git.py good for?
>> Or is this a remnant from a typo?
> 
> From git-rev-parse(1):
> 
>   <rev>^{}, e.g. v0.99.8^{}
>       A suffix ^ followed by an empty brace pair means the object could be a
>       tag, and dereference the tag recursively until a non-tag object is
>       found.
> 
> Without this change, (some?) tag references would end up not
> being considered to be on the requested branch by bitbake (by
> default, master), as the tag objects themselves are not. The tags
> therefore have to be resolved to a reference to a commit.
> 
> Given the description in git-rev-parse(1), it surprises me that
> it doesn't work for some cases. I think it has to do with the tag
> being annotated or not.

You were right. The method works with annotated tags only. I've changed the related tags.

Thx,
Steffen

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