Hi Richard, > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Richard Purdie > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2013 6:43 PM > > On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 06:41 +0000, [email protected] wrote: > > Previously the branch name doesn't need to be defined when a > > non-master branch commit is referred in recipe, this has been changed > > in latest bitbake. > > > > Is this an intentional change? May I know the reason of the change if > it is intentional? > > It was intentional and was triggered by this change: > > http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=f19546e02d3318ee69fd > 0c34e21aa97b74c987ec > > which is a sanity test added to fix certain failure cases where a given > revision wasn't on a specified branch. > > The bug was nasty since the fetcher was hitting the network in cases it > shouldn't have been when a branch wasn't specified. [Luo Zhenhua-B19537] I see, can bitbake be enhanced to support tag as well? Sometimes a commit might be contained by a tag rather than branch, e.g. tag created for rebased git tree.
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