[oe] [PATCH] gitpkgv.bbclass: cache GITPKGV result

[Otavio Salvador]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Enrico Scholz <
enrico.scholz at sigma-chemnitz.de> wrote:

> gitpkgv runs the 'git rev-list | wc -l' several times when processing a
> package using GITPKGV.  This takes ages for packages like the linux
> kernel which has a) a large repository and b) lots of subpackages.
>
> This patch caches the result of 'git rev-list' into the sources cache
> directory and uses it on the next run.  Because collisions of the sha1
> hash are very unlikely, the git revision is used directly as the key.
>
> [this is a slightly fixed version of classic OE's
>  8c61580bc303911cf77a16eefb661414fee637f4]
>
> Signed-off-by: Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at sigma-chemnitz.de>
>

I'd prefer to have the hashes cache in same DL_DIR so we don't have another
directory there. It is a file so I see no need for another dir. What do you
think?

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