[OE-core] [PATCH] kernel-yocto: Inspect remote branches with git ls-remote

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 6:02 AM, Matt Fleming <matt at console-pimps.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Mar, at 12:02:27PM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> Please cc' me directly on any kernel-yocto changes, I only noticed this
>> by chance.
>
> Noted.
>
>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Matt Fleming <matt at console-pimps.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > Furthermore, the output of 'git branch' is subject to change and trying
>> > to parse it could potentially lead to breakage in the future.
>>
>> I've never had a problem with it in 7 years of the tools and their variants, so
>> the point is arguable and could be dropped from the commit log.
>
> I'm referring to this,

Yah, I've seen similar warnings as well, I'm a fan of symbolic-ref after getting
burned poking directly into the .git directory structure in the past :) The more
usable primitives are much better than they used to be. But I'm in a pragmatic
mood lately and will keep an eye out for a real world break .. and then everyone
can tell me that they told me so.

Cheers,

Bruce

>
>   http://git-blame.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/checking-current-branch-programatically.html
>
>> Good catch on the issue, like I said, I've never run into it .. but I
>> can definitely see the need for the tweak.
>
> OK, I'll send an updated version. Thanks for the review.
>
> --
> Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center



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