Re: linux-media checkout failing for KernelCI

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 <[email protected]>
> > 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.