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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>
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On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 10:16 +0200, Mike Looijmans wrote:
> In partial reply to my own question, this has been discussed 2 years ago, but 
> apparently nothing ever came out of it.
> 
> http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2012-February/056050.html
> 
> So once more the request to be able to get sane version strings for git repos. 
> Can we please just move gitpkgv. That's like five minutes work, and if anyone 
> (e.g. me) feels like building something better, he or she is free do submit 
> that and get rid of the gitpkgv class once it's obsolete.

I do feel quite strongly that this is something which should get
improved in the fetcher itself. That is why I've pushed back on the
patch since if I take it into OE-Core, there is even less incentive to
fix the real problem...

Cheers,

Richard