dev-manual: Added links to branch and tag checkout from overview.

(From yocto-docs rev: 122948411e1121be862caa43d216126c3a01f1fc)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-start.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-start.xml
index 343f791e7f..bcb49fbf03 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-start.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-start.xml
@@ -467,7 +467,14 @@
                     Unless you specify a specific development branch or
                     tag name, Git clones the "master" branch, which results
                     in a snapshot of the latest development changes for
-                    "master".</para>
+                    "master".
+                    For information on how to check out a specific
+                    development branch or on how to check out a local
+                    branch based on a tag name, see the
+                    "<link linkend='checking-out-by-branch-in-poky'>Checking Out By Branch in Poky</link>"
+                    and
+                    <link linkend='checkout-out-by-tag-in-poky'>Checking Out By Tag in Poky</link>",
+                    respectively.</para>
 
                     <para>Once the repository is created, you can change to
                     that directory and check its status.