Bug 16322

Summary: bitbake should support git sha256 repos
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] BitBake Reporter: Nick Owens <mischief>
Component: bitbakeAssignee: Nick Owens <mischief>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium+ CC: ccasciato, poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher, randy.macleod, yoann.congal
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 6.1 M2   
Hardware: All   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Don't know

Description Nick Owens 2026-06-18 09:48:27 UTC 
sha256 object format has been supported since git 2.29 (~2020), but bitbake cannot fetch those repos.

the only thing blocking this seems to be some regular expressions in bitbake (and having new enough git on the host)
Comment 1 Yoann Congal 2026-06-18 14:52:44 UTC 
For reference a patch was sent on list: https://lore.kernel.org/bitbake-devel/20260618100903.231245-2-mischief@offblast.org/T/#u