[meta-ti] objections to replacing git SRCREV tag names with actual hash IDs?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 5 Feb 2013, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 06:58:37AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   surely, some of you saw this discussion on the oe-core list last
> > night, but would there be any objection to replacing the small
> > number of git SRCREV settings of tag names with their actual hash
> > IDs?  the motivation should be obvious -- avoid network traffic to
> > parse those tag names, even when that recipe isn't even being used
> > in the image being built.
>
> Yes, I've had occasional issues with "git ls-remote" during parse
> time on resolving those tags into commit IDs and was planning on
> eventually replacing them.

  ... snip ...

  thanks, i realize that, in the grand scheme of things, this isn't a
high priority but it definitely has an annoyance factor :-).  so i'll
leave this with folks higher up the food chain than me.

rday

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