Re: [oe] Style issue for recipes

[Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@sigma-chemnitz.de>]

"Peter A. Bigot" <pab@pabigot.com> writes:

>>> .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:

it's not only 'git log'; it is 'git blame' too and because git does not
support renaming of files natively, the 'git log --follow' method is
error prone and might compare the wrong files resp. fail completely when
there are too much changes.


Enrico