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From: Denys Fedoryshchenko <nuclearcat@nuclearcat.com>
To: Gustavo Padovan <gus@collabora.com>
Cc: linuxtv-ci@linuxtv.org,
	"kernelci@lists.linux.dev" <kernelci@lists.linux.dev>,
	Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys.f@collabora.com>
Subject: Re: linux-media checkout failing for KernelCI
Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 00:40:03 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <78fd3f63760c0670cee4a8a4ac99a91a2b62706f.camel@nuclearcat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8edccc0b-d71a-b6ec-392f-3946f768db05@collabora.com>

On Fri, 2024-05-17 at 12:57 -0400, Gustavo Padovan wrote:
> 
> 
> On 5/17/24 11:29, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 6:41 AM Gustavo Padovan <gus@collabora.com>
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi Media maintainers,
> > > 
> > > We are struggling to use the media tree, in the same way we
> > > usually
> > > virtually all other trees in KernelCI. The following commands
> > > gives
> > > KernelCI a fatal error.
> > > 
> > > git clone
> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
> > > cd linux
> > > git remote add media https://git.linuxtv.org/media_tree.git
> > > git remote update media
> > > git fetch --tags https://git.linuxtv.org/media_tree.git
> > Why not "git fetch --tags media" instead of the last two commands ?
> > That is working for me, and it is what I always use when fetching
> > remote repositories.
> 
> Hmm. Maybe we were just being newbies with the way KernelCI does it.
> :)
Actually, the problem is that this "magical sequence" in the legacy
code was written years ago, and git blame gives incorrect results, so i
can't ask author "why?". 
It’s a sort of "Chesterton's Fence" in the legacy library.



      reply	other threads:[~2024-05-17 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-17 13:41 linux-media checkout failing for KernelCI Gustavo Padovan
2024-05-17 13:45 ` Gustavo Padovan
2024-05-17 18:56   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2024-05-17 19:46     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2024-05-17 15:29 ` Guenter Roeck
2024-05-17 16:57   ` Gustavo Padovan
2024-05-17 21:40     ` Denys Fedoryshchenko [this message]

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