Re: [PATCH] fetch2: Shorten long srcrevs

[Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 01:21:55PM +0300, Richard Purdie wrote:
> The long srcrevs are mainly used or the workdir construction as well as
> the package version. The long entries are hashes generated by the git fetcher
> and other scms using a similar revision mechanism.
> 
> We need these to change when the package changes however collisions are
> unlikely to happen within the domains we care about. The long revisions
> have generated negative user feedback due to the use in path and file
> names.
> 
> This patch therefore truncates the revisions to 10 characters maximum.
> 
> This should be safe in the contexts where these revisions are used as
> the chances of spatially close collisions is very low (distant
> collisions are not a major issue in the way we use these).

Interesting side-effect of this change is that it rebuilds all recipes
with git SRCPV in PV even with OEBasic signature handler, because stamp files 
are also renamed.

I'm not saying it's bad thing, I was just surprised to see so many
rebuilds after last update.

-- 
Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa@gmail.com

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