From: Michael Riesch <michael.riesch@wolfvision.net>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] Globally define GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES?
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 22:22:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a2ad4a21-644d-dc51-9971-2a5b57f11393@wolfvision.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230214142138.GO21075@pengutronix.de>
Hi mol,
On 2/14/23 15:21, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 02:58:49PM +0100, Sven Püschel wrote:
>> I would suggest globally setting the GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES environment
>> variable when building packages.
>>
>> Besides lshw, sockperf is now the second time I've encountered the
>> buildsystem to check the current git repository. But as Git also checks the
>> parent directories when searching for Git repositories, these checks may
>> result in getting an unwanted Git repository (usually the BSP), resulting in
>> package versions with a Git commit/version that has nothing to do with the
>> actual package.
>>
>> With GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES set to the parent directory of the extracted
>> sources, Git will stop searching for parent Git repositories, when it
>> encounters this directory. See my sockperf v2 patch for an example of using
>> this environment variable.
>>
>> Given this is a global change, does anyone see a potential problem?
>
> I've been thinking about similar issues from time to time. Mostly when I'm
> digging into package sources. It happens occasionally that I do a 'git
> grep', which succeeds without finding something... So I'd prefer a solution
> that works here as well.
>
> One idea is to create an empty platform-XXX/.git file. Git will stop here
> with an error: "fatal: invalid gitfile format: .../platform-XXX/.git".
> It's not the best error, but it should solve both our issues.
I gave this a quick test and it solves the problems with the libcamera
project.
Any idea when such a solution could land in ptxdist?
Thanks and regards,
mri
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-27 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-13 13:58 Sven Püschel
2023-02-13 14:24 ` Christian Melki
2023-02-13 15:03 ` Sven Püschel
2023-02-13 19:27 ` Christian Melki
2023-02-14 10:32 ` Michael Riesch
2023-02-14 14:21 ` Michael Olbrich
2023-02-27 21:22 ` Michael Riesch [this message]
2023-03-03 7:25 ` Michael Olbrich
2023-03-06 8:34 ` Michael Riesch
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