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authorQuentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@theobroma-systems.com>2021-09-08 10:50:03 +0200
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2021-09-10 09:26:04 +0100
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bitbake: doc: bitbake-user-manual-fetching: S should be set to WORKDIR/git for git fetcher
Document that S has to be set to "${WORKDIR}/git" in order for the recipe to work if the git fetcher is fetching the main source of code for the recipe. (Bitbake rev: c394f34437686c2f57a27f0c06d7aeb3268bfd41) Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@theobroma-systems.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.rst b/bitbake/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.rst
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@@ -441,6 +441,13 @@ Here are some example URLs::
441 441
442.. note:: 442.. note::
443 443
444 When using ``git`` as the fetcher of the main source code of your software,
445 ``S`` should be set accordingly::
446
447 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
448
449.. note::
450
444 Specifying passwords directly in ``git://`` urls is not supported. 451 Specifying passwords directly in ``git://`` urls is not supported.
445 There are several reasons: :term:`SRC_URI` is often written out to logs and 452 There are several reasons: :term:`SRC_URI` is often written out to logs and
446 other places, and that could easily leak passwords; it is also all too 453 other places, and that could easily leak passwords; it is also all too