[yocto] Git tool/command problems with YOCTO Open Source repos

[Burton, Ross]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 12:42, Zoran Stojsavljevic
<zoran.stojsavljevic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What can you not do with Yocto's git repositories?
>
> Please, refer to my initial email. Not referring to Poky, I guess, the
> Poky repo is equivalent to kernel.org. In other words, everything with
> it can be done with git tool.
>
> I am referring to many others, associated with github. Maybe it is
> ONLY github, which does not support git tool in full extend.
>
> So, as I said/wrote in the initial email. The concrete meta-bbb does
> not support git tag, git describe.
>
> Once I have no tags, I could not do anything with git log. And... You
> can imagine.

Why does the lack of tags mean you can't do anything with git log?

Tags are simply a way of naming arbitrary commits, typically "This is
version 1.0".  If a repository doesn't make releases then it doesn't
need to use tags.  This isn't a problem.

Ross