Hi Zoran, On 28/11/18 12:00, Zoran Stojsavljevic wrote: > Hello Stefano, > > I am (almost) perfectly aligned with kernel.org, and I (personally) > decided to use git. Since I start understanding importance of Linus. > Linux officers and their Linux philosophy.
Each tool is thought to solve a specific issue. git is a configuration management tool, and yes, it is a great tool. > > Now... Answers to your email. KAS (Siemens developed tool by Jan > Kiszka and his crew) is the supplement for the fast/quick building the > YOCTO, to use ONLY rootfs. It is a support to synchronize layers and to support bitbake. > NOT kernel. NOT aligned with the git tool. > Not applicable for purposes as git. Each project has its own configuration management, nowadays mostly git. But OE can use git / mercury / subversion. Your initial question is quite a complain why tags are not used in OE, and git describe does not work. Nevertheless, because layers are not part as a single big repo, you need some way to sync the layers. kas is one of these tools. > > On the other note, repo is GOOGLE tool. Promoted by them. Most of the > ARM followers (such as Toradex) use repo tool. There are people happy working with repo. Everybody chooses the tool more suitable for own needs. > > You say: I talk to the wrong crew. I think opposite. I am giving the > generic message via YOCTO email list, to avoid hundreds of particular > emails, so we can unify the effort. Which is not minor. Rather > opposite: major. > > Since, I guess, this is of the major importance. For YOCTO survival. > The direction is one: git tool. For all YOCTO developers. IMHO. > > Stefano, > > You, as major official representative of U-Boot philosophy (and > Wolfgang's Denk right hand), You're now completely off topic. > do not take sides, rather ad-hoc > approach. For you, this topic is not important. Appreciated your help. > > I am asking here for much higher awareness. YOCTO better survival in The > Future. > Best regards, Stefano > Thank you, > Zoran > _______ > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 10:52 AM Stefano Babic <sba...@denx.de> wrote: >> >> Hi Zoran, >> >> On 28/11/18 10:17, Zoran Stojsavljevic wrote: >>> Hello YOCTO people, >>> >>> I would like to use standard git tool while using all the Yocto >>> layers. NOT only Poky repository (which, I believe, works all the way >>> with git tools), but as much as possible with other github proprietary >>> repos and layers. Since I am not able to execute git commands using >>> some number of proprietary repos over github. >>> >>> As example, I'll use meta-bbb repository. >>> https://github.com/jumpnow/meta-bbb.git, after cloning the following >>> happens (chosen, since it has at least dozen of branches): >>> >>> After cloning, I did not get anything from the following commands, >>> being in the root of the meta-bbb repo, namely: >>> >>> [user@fedora28-ssd meta-bbb]$ pwd >>> /home/user/projects2/beaglebone-black/yocto-master/meta-bbb >>> [user@fedora28-ssd meta-bbb]$ git describe >>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >> >> I understand, but why is this an issue in Yocto project ? The maintainer >> does not use tags and git describe is fast useless. >> >> You should contact layer's maintainer and ask for that. Anyway, outside >> poky, tags are quite unused in layers. >> >>> [user@fedora28-ssd meta-bbb]$ git tag >>> [user@fedora28-ssd meta-bbb]$ git checkout thud >>> Branch 'thud' set up to track remote branch 'thud' from 'origin'. >>> Switched to a new branch 'thud' >>> [user@fedora28-ssd meta-bbb]$ git checkout sumo >>> Switched to branch 'sumo' >>> Your branch is up to date with 'origin/sumo'. >>> [user@fedora28-ssd meta-bbb]$ git describe >>> fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. >>> [user@fedora28-ssd meta-bbb]$ >>> >>> The rationale behind this request: git is the powerful tool which >>> should work and be solely used for YOCTO layers' synchronization. In >>> other words, YOCTO should give some tools' (namely git) unification >>> guidelines in some way. :-) >> >> It is clear that a tool to maintain the layers in sync is required, but >> it is quite independent how the layers (and many are proprietary layers) >> are built. So you can use "repo" or "kas" (my preferred one) for that. >> >> Best regards, >> Stefano Babic >> >> -- >> ===================================================================== >> DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk >> HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany >> Phone: +49-8142-66989-53 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: sba...@denx.de >> ===================================================================== -- ===================================================================== DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: +49-8142-66989-53 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: sba...@denx.de ===================================================================== -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
