[oe] [PATCH] metadata_scm.bbclass: get the metadata revision for current HEAD

[Chris Larson]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:

> > The issue is, show-ref shows all refs which match the supplied search
> > string.  show-ref HEAD will show all the HEAD refs, both local and the
> ones
> > in all your remotes, which isn't what we want for METADATA_REVISION.  I'm
> > testing a patch which changes it to use rev-parse to get the commit hash
> for
> > HEAD rather than show-ref.
>
> FWIW you could also use git show-ref --head <branch>


Yeah, that will work if the <branch> is the full path including refs/heads/,
but it's not using the right plumbing tool for the job.  show-ref is
designed to *list* refs in the repo, not resolve a single one.
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Christopher Larson
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