Re: [PATCH] .gitignore: add /bitbake to the ignore list for external distributions

[Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>]

On 05/09/2012 09:21 AM, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 08:46 -0500, Jason Wessel wrote:
>> External distributions based on the oe-core will typically include
>> bitbake in the top level directory.  The idea is to make it easy
>> for external distributions to easily assemble a distribution
>> with a pristine version of oe-core, add avoid the git untracked messages:
> 
> Presumably any non-trivial external distribution is going to include
> other metadata as well, in which case they're going to have to
> edit .gitignore for themselves anyway.  So it doesn't really seem as
> though having bitbake be mentioned there in oe-core buys much.
> 
> On the other hand, actually moving bitbake inside the oe-core repository
> seems like an idea which might have some merit.  It's not obvious that
> having it in its own tree really achieves anything other than making
> release engineering slightly more difficult.


It appeared to me that the bitbake was maintained by an entirely different group of people, but oe-core is completely tied to bitbake.  It might always be the case that it will still be a separate repository and perhaps this is a side effect of how the poky git vs the development of the Yocto Project are maintained, with the other work flow being to assemble a distribution.

Technically the poky git has the same issue, but you do not see it because of the way it is managed.  Ideally I would have liked to see that change as well, but I understand it is done that way for simplicity vs using git submodules or subgit trees with a tool like repo or others.

It would be interesting to hear a few more view points on this topic.

Jason.