The current version of git is not supported by guilt and breaks linux-yocto when used with additional patches.
Stefan: one more question. Can you dump the exact git version that shows the error ? If it's the version in oe-core master, that's fine as well, I just want to be clear about the version before starting.
hah. I do see the git version in the title of the case :) I just ran a test on oe-core master and can patch with git-native there. This sounds like the oe-core provided git isn't being used, and instead the host version. What's your host ? and host git version ? I'll first fix the issue of the host git being used, and then fix the git version issue.
Created attachment 1012 [details] guilt: update supported versions
See my late update, I already have guilt patched for this, I'm more concerned how it is not using the git from oe-core. Can you confirm your host distro and git version ?
It is using the git from oe-core which is 1.8.0.2. My host distro is ubuntu lucid and the git version is 1.7.0.4.
perfect! thanks for the info.
Bruce, can we kill guilt already?
guilt needs to stay for this release. git am won't apply many of the patches that are floating in the various out of tree layers. guilt can deal with them, so we need that functionality. I have enhancements to git am that would be stretch to get done for yocto 1.4, without breaking compatibility.
commit 349e5bea53b02cabf836b8943541a002ce9ba682 Author: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com> Date: Fri Jan 18 00:19:32 2013 -0500 guilt: add git 1.8.x support Updating guilt to allow git 1.8.x as a supported version. This version has no impact on other functionality within the scripts, so no other adjustments are necessary. [YOCTO #3275] (From OE-Core rev: 18bc7b44ef58cbcbe32d45504d71eed54ef695a4) Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>