[yocto] How to force the use of git-native?

[Gary Thomas]

On 2013-12-12 09:20, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> On Thursday 12 December 2013 08:06:31 Gary Thomas wrote:
>> I've found that the latest bitbake fetcher changes (require
>> the use of branch names) fails with older versions of git.
>> I have a Fedora 13 machine which I routinely use to build
>> my Yocto projects that has git version 1.7.7.6.  On that machine,
>> all git fetches fail, no matter what.  On my Ubuntu builder
>> which has git 1.7.9.4, all is OK.
>>
>> I see that there is a git recipe in OE-core.  How can I force
>> it to be built and used where the host's native git is inadequate?
>
> The solution we provide for this kind of situation is buildtools-tarball, as
> described here (linked from the QS guide as well):
>
> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#required-git-tar-and-python-versions

Thanks, I'll give this a go.

>
> Interesting that git 1.7.7.6 is still not adequate though, that may be a
> prompt to either fix the check to work with older versions of git or
> increase our version number requirement.

If you have ideas how I can investigate why this fails, I'd be glad
to help out (to see if it can be made to work with 1.7.7.6 or if we
just need a newer version period)

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