How to fill ShortRef in my fork?

[Ghoelian]

Hey,

I have a fork of InfiniTime with a few changes of my own. For some reason, the ShortRef in the firmware validation screen is empty for these builds.

How do I get this to show the actual commit it was built with? It would be very useful to have this as a reference when creating issues.

[mark9064]

Do you happen to be building with the docker image? I've never used the build container, but I seem to recall some discussion saying that it can cause problems with the ref - hopefully someone else can chime in with more info. Perhaps try on baremetal / WSL / VM if you haven't already? I've never not had it populated (baremetal Linux build)

[Ghoelian]

Hmm I'm not building with the docker image, I'm manually cmakeing it in a toolbox environment, which is really just a podman container. Since you recommended building in WSL or a VM I assume that should be fine as well no?

[Ghoelian]

Actually no that was wrong, the last few builds have been from the Github CI. I can see in the build logs that the ref is already empty when it logs the build configuration, which is also the case for builds on the main InfiniTime branch.

I tried to check the logs for the latest release build, but unfortunately those have expired and are no longer available.

This is actually consistent with builds on the InfiniTime repo as well. Installing a build from a commit from the main branch also does not have the short ref filled.

I think probably because of this:

fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at '/__w/InfiniTime/InfiniTime'
To add an exception for this directory, call:

	git config --global --add safe.directory /__w/InfiniTime/InfiniTime

I might be able to fix that.

[Ghoelian]

Made a pr: #2282