Comment 6 for bug 1356784

Thanks for the quick reaction.

I have given the proposed patch some testing and it works for me.

I have a note on the title: I had unsigned annotated tags in my repository, so I believe it doesn't really matter if the tag is signed or not.

For the record this is what I tested:

I have set RECLONE=no in my devstack, then I did:

cd /opt/stack/pbr
git fetch https://review.openstack.org/openstack-dev/pbr refs/changes/03/114403/1 && git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git checkout -b review/114403/1
cd $back_to_devstack
./stack.sh

Now I have pbr version as expected:

$ pip freeze | grep -w pbr
pbr==0.11.0.dev12.g0708206

Nova got installed (in develop mode) with a better version:

$ grep ^Version: /opt/stack/nova/nova.egg-info/PKG-INFO
Version: 2013.2.3.dev1.ga73da36

Yes, it's really old, but that's probably correct. The point is this is now not based on the free-format tags present in my nova repo.

nova-api and devstack started up as expected.