Re: [PATCH 1/1] git.py: create a branch when checkout

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, 2015-07-06 at 18:33 -0700, Robert Yang wrote:
> Create a branch named oebuild_SRCREV when checkout the source, this
> makes debug easier than "(no branch)" when look into the source.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>
> ---
>  bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/git.py |    3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/git.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/git.py
> index 2e53882..12087dd 100644
> --- a/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/git.py
> +++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/git.py
> @@ -280,7 +280,8 @@ class Git(FetchMethod):
>                  runfetchcmd("%s read-tree %s%s" % (ud.basecmd, ud.revisions[ud.names[0]], readpathspec), d)
>                  runfetchcmd("%s checkout-index -q -f -a" % ud.basecmd, d)
>              else:
> -                runfetchcmd("%s checkout %s" % (ud.basecmd, ud.revisions[ud.names[0]]), d)
> +                runfetchcmd("%s checkout %s -b oebuild_%s" % (ud.basecmd, \
> +                            ud.revisions[ud.names[0]], ud.revisions[ud.names[0]]), d)
>          return True

Would it not make more sense to set the branch to the upstream branch
name here?

Cheers,

Richard