[yocto] [layerindex-web][PATCH 4/4] update.py: check whether branch existed when nocheckout

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Robert,

On Monday, 9 July 2018 6:11:30 AM CEST Robert Yang wrote:
> Fixed:
> Assume there is no master branch in hello layer:
> $ update.py -l hello -b master
> INFO: Skipping update of layer hello - branch master doesn't exist
> 
> This is correct since hello layer doesn't have master branch, but when --nocheckout:
> $ update.py -l hello -b master  --nocheckout
> [snip]
> INFO: Sorting layers for branch mater:
> WARNING: Cannot find required collections on branch master:
> WARNING: hello: LAYERDEPENDS: <snip>
> 
> This is incorrect, this patch fixed the problem, now it skips it since the
> branch doesn't exists when --nocheckout.

This fix doesn't seem right. The intention of --nocheckout is to not check anything
out, i.e. use whatever HEAD is in the current repository. It wouldn't be correct
to get the commit from the origin in this case.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre