Re: [oe] Style issue for recipes

["Peter A. Bigot" <pab@pabigot.com>]

On 09/04/2014 11:29 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 4 September 2014 17:07, Enrico Scholz
> <enrico.scholz@sigma-chemnitz.de> wrote:
>> .inc files make sense with current packaging because they are revision
>> control friendly.  E.g. you can put the logic into .inc and follow its
>> history with 'git log' which is not possible when there are only the
>> versioned .bb files.
> You can follow changes to the .inc but not anything that went in and
> out of the .bb, but I do concede that git not tracking the renames
> directly does mean some histories are harder to track (although simple
> to follow as the commit where the history stops will tell you where to
> pick it up again).

git log --follow foo_1.2.bb handles 90% of this:

       --follow
            Continue listing the history of a file beyond renames (works 
only for a single file).

E.g. you can go all the way back to systemd 196 with:

     git log --follow meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_216.bb

Peter