hi, re-posting to oe-core list. While this is a bitbake question, I didn't get any answer.. so I would like to get more attention from bitbake users..
cheers nico ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nicolas Dechesne <nicolas.deche...@linaro.org> Date: Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 4:04 PM Subject: git fetcher and github pull requests To: bitbake-devel <bitbake-de...@lists.openembedded.org>, Ryan Harkin <ryan.har...@linaro.org> hi there, we've been debugging an issue these days on our builder which ended up do_fetch failing with LANG=C git -c core.fsyncobjectfiles=0 fetch -f --prune --progress git://github.com/OP-TEE/optee_test.git refs/*:refs/* failed with exit code 128, output: error: Could not read 48e440f5f8d033e1ace6e41f424ecf6e6d96e5f2 error: Could not read 019a8db54beb29388e1108831d2e2dc135c1cd73 It happens that these refs correspond to pull requests done on github which existed at some point, but have been updated with newer commits, and won't exist anymore. the bitbake fetcher seems to be greedy and fetches refs/* which ends up fetching pull request when fetching from github, e.g. in my workspace: in $DL_DIR/git2/ github.com.docker.containerd.git/refs/pull/66 github.com.docker.containerd.git/refs/pull/459 github.com.docker.containerd.git/refs/pull/551 github.com.docker.containerd.git/refs/pull/321 github.com.docker.containerd.git/refs/pull/60 github.com.docker.containerd.git/refs/pull/523 github.com.docker.containerd.git/refs/pull/40 github.com.docker.containerd.git/refs/pull/561 It looks inefficient to fetch and store on each builder pull requests. I understand this is just because how PR are implemented in github, but github is quite central, so many we should/could do something about it? Beyond the inefficiencies, we now are seeing unrelated build issues as well. What do you think? Should we try to avoid fetching refs/pull/* from github? or is it our git fetch command that needs to be improve to work in this situation? thanks nico -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
