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From: Markus Lehtonen <markus.lehtonen@linux.intel.com>
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On 04/01/2017, 17.30, "Mariano Lopez" <mariano.lopez@linux.intel.com>
wrote:
>On 28/12/16 07:02, Markus Lehtonen wrote:
>> It's better just to not have the xml elements than to have elements with
>> faux data. One could have git branch named 'unknown', for example.
>>
>>
>
>I don't think is a good idea to completely remove the layer from the
>metadata when such layer is not a repository, it would remove valuable
>information for later analysis. And if you ask would do such a thing, I
>would, I have my own debug layers that can mess with testing.

I'm not removing the entire layer. I'm just removing the
<branch>unknown</branch> and <revisio>unknown</revision> elements. So the
layer elements are still there.

Thanks,
   Markus