Bug 7807

Summary: buildhistory git setup fails without git configurations for user.name and user.email
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: mikko.rapeli
Component: Scripts and ToolsAssignee: Ed Bartosh <eduard.bartosh>
Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: minor    
Priority: Undecided CC: ross.burton
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
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OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Don't know

Description mikko.rapeli 2015-05-26 08:18:55 UTC 
buildhistory sets up a git tree for build history. This setup needs git user.name and user.email to be set with newer version of git. If the user building bitbake does not have these set up, the buildhistory git tree operations will fail and the build fails.

This patch fixes the problem and makes sure that bitbake config changes to the buildhistory user.name and user.email are followed.

http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2015-May/105108.html
Comment 1 Ross Burton 2015-05-26 08:59:11 UTC 
QA also discovered this, a fix was merged in f62255bfa6c5a322c867b7c4ea5686ea7bfab3fe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 6973 ***
Comment 2 mikko.rapeli 2015-05-26 14:55:28 UTC 
Yes, similar patch fixes the original build problem that we had too.