[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] contrib: use git-archive and save the hash

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On February 21, 2017 9:56:56 AM GMT+02:00, "Filip Roséen" <filip at atch.se> wrote:
>Hi Rémi,
>
>On 2017-02-21 09:35, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
>
>> On February 21, 2017 3:46:30 AM GMT+02:00, Jean-Baptiste Kempf
><jb at videolan.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >This commit breaks the build.
>> >
>> 
>> Yes. Wrong prefix is already fixed.
>> 
>> However, most if not all git-based rules have broken
>> dependency/update propagation. This bug is preexistent: the name of
>> the tarballs doed not depend on the checked-out version.
>
>There still is the issue of using `git archive` together with `HEAD`
>inside a *bare* repo (which will not work). I can submit a patch for
>this if so is desirable, but I reckon you are about to fix it (and
>given that I don't have commit access you will probably get it inside
>the codebase faster in either case).
>
>/F

You are not supposed to use HEAD. This is not a bug. Even if you worked around it in archive step, it still would fail in checking step anyway.
-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
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