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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] clutter_git: update to 1.8.2 tag
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On Tuesday 13 December 2011 12:40:40 Joshua Lock wrote:
> On 13/12/11 12:34, Khem Raj wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Joshua Lock <josh@linux.intel.com> 
wrote:
> >> -SRCREV = "39db46123ed6bbbc3e6ad359a64d4d344ca9e11b"
> >> -PV = "1.8.0+git${SRCPV}"
> >> +# the 1.8.2 tag
> >> +SRCREV = "9041ea42655dfc1422ce88eab931382dd400d13a"
> >> +PV = "1.8.2+git${SRCPV}"
> > 
> > you could also use the tag name instead of SHA for SRCREV I think
> 
> Indeed we can, however we've seen problems which I can't recall the
> details of in the past when doing so. Therefore I decided to avoid it
> this time.

It does work, it just forces a fetch on every parse which is not really 
desirable. It's really no hardship to use the SHA1 especially if it's 
accompanied by a comment with the corresponding tag.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre