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authorPaul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>2011-08-23 15:51:12 +0100
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2011-08-24 19:49:37 -0700
commit954444f1d360e9d61b6ad16a64c0550afea7272b (patch)
tree603204831626f7a09f98d70c0fb07820c5c1089c
parent1e18d851703bda06c503ba4fabb63111b62a11c9 (diff)
downloadpoky-954444f1d360e9d61b6ad16a64c0550afea7272b.tar.gz
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>
-rw-r--r--documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml6
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diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
index b87ee42fe9..f942cc7319 100644
--- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
+++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
@@ -969,7 +969,11 @@
969 <glossdef> 969 <glossdef>
970 <para> 970 <para>
971 The revision of the source code used to build the package. 971 The revision of the source code used to build the package.
972 This variable applies to Subversion, GitT, or Bazaar only. 972 This variable applies to Subversion, Git, Mercurial and Bazaar
973 only. Note that if you wish to build a fixed revision and you wish
974 to avoid performing a query on the remote repository every time
975 BitBake parses your recipe, you should specify a SRCREV that is a
976 full revision identifier (and not just a tag).
973 </para> 977 </para>
974 </glossdef> 978 </glossdef>
975 </glossentry> 979 </glossentry>