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| author | Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> | 2011-08-23 15:51:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2011-08-24 19:49:37 -0700 |
| commit | 954444f1d360e9d61b6ad16a64c0550afea7272b (patch) | |
| tree | 603204831626f7a09f98d70c0fb07820c5c1089c /documentation | |
| parent | 1e18d851703bda06c503ba4fabb63111b62a11c9 (diff) | |
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documentation: update documentation for SRCREV variable
* Add note about specifying a full revision ID to prevent querying the
remote server on every parse
* Mercurial also supports this variable
(From yocto-docs rev: 47ce273dd751b0ae32b5c53310b6aedc4dade2ef)
Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml index b87ee42..f942cc7 100644 --- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml +++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml @@ -969,7 +969,11 @@ <glossdef> <para> The revision of the source code used to build the package. - This variable applies to Subversion, GitT, or Bazaar only. + This variable applies to Subversion, Git, Mercurial and Bazaar + only. Note that if you wish to build a fixed revision and you wish + to avoid performing a query on the remote repository every time + BitBake parses your recipe, you should specify a SRCREV that is a + full revision identifier (and not just a tag). </para> </glossdef> </glossentry> |
