[OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] image-buildinfo.bbclass: Introduce IMAGE_BUILDINFO_GITDESCRIBE

[Andrei Gherzan]

On 09/10/2019 18:58, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 18:05 +0100, Andrei Gherzan wrote:
>> This knob can switch in between having full revisions and having git
>> describe references in the build info file. By default it is set to 0
>> to
>> maintain the old behaviour.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrei Gherzan <andrei at gherzan.ro>
>> ---
>>   meta/classes/image-buildinfo.bbclass | 14 ++++++++++++--
>>   1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> I'm not sure we want to even encourage this. We probably do want to
> print/store the full hashes as output from this class as they may be
> used by CI or in bug reports. The could be unique at the time of
> printing but clash later. The output is also dependent on the fetched
> tree.

Wait. There is indeed an issue: it should fallback to full hashes when 
human readable tags are not available. I'll address. When tags are 
available, the describe will give you the hask as well including a delta 
integer. Is that what you were concerned about?

-- 
Andrei Gherzan