[poky] [PATCH 1/1] git fetcher: add support for rebaseable git repo

[Darren Hart]

On 05/23/2011 10:50 PM, Yu Ke wrote:
> on 2011-5-21 8:07, Darren Hart wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 05/20/2011 09:30 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
>>> On 5/15/2011 6:16 PM, Yu Ke wrote:
>>>> From: Yu Ke<ke.yu at intel.com>
>>>>
>>>> Some upstream git repo may rebase in the future, which means current
>>>> revision may disappear from the upstream repo after the rebase.
>>>>
>>>> current git fetcher can not handle this case, because the git mirror
>>>> tar ball is per repo, and may also change in the rebase and lost the
>>>> current revision info.
>>>>
>>>> To fix this issue, this patch
>>>> - add rebaseable tag in the SRC_URI
>>>> - for rebaseable repo, make git mirror tar ball per revision, in this
>>>>     case, even upstream rebase, the git mirror still has the current
>>>>     revision info.
>>>> - for rebaseable repo, generate mirror tar ball by default, since the
>>>>     repo may change in the future.
>>>
>>> Do we have the options to SRC_URI documented somewhere ?
>>> if yes then this should be added there too.
>>
>> I was looking and didn't find them. At the very least these should be
>> documented in the fetch2/git.py file for reference when
>> reviewing/maintaining the source.
>>
> 
> This is good reminder, Thanks.
> 
> There are several places that hold this info:
> 
> - bitbake manual: http://bitbake.berlios.de/manual/ch03s07.html
> - openembedded manual: 
> http://docs.openembedded.org/usermanual/usermanual.html#id572539
> - poky reference manual: 
> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/poky-ref-manual/poky-ref-manual.html#ref-bitbake-fetchers
> 
> It looks the most appropriate place would be bitbake manual, which is 
> also refereed by poky reference manual. So does anyone know how can I 
> update this mannual?

I've provided a couple minor fixes to the manual. I just edited:

poky.git/bitbake/doc/manual/usermanual.xml

And sent the patch to the poky list. It might be preferable to develop
against the actual bitbake repository, but nobody has complained yet :-)

> 
> Also, it sounds good idea to add the SRC_URI options doc in the source, 
> I will cook a patch to add this info.

Great! Thanks Ke,

> 
> Regards
> Ke

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel