From 43e6e25bd5c8909e8f539acc4834f31be13f7483 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott Rifenbark Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 08:29:23 -0600 Subject: documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml: Edits to Git section Last edits to the "Git" section and the bulleted item that defines the term "Yocto Project Files." These edits were from a review of Joshua Lock. Reported-by: Joshua Lock (From yocto-docs rev: 57cbb06aac566e02bb2e2a1ad05c3ff6dbb0359c) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'documentation/dev-manual') diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml index 727c2ec25b..5ce67ed504 100644 --- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml @@ -225,6 +225,7 @@ results in a Yocto Project file structure whose Yocto Project source directory is named poky-edison-6.0. If you create a Git repository, then you can name the repository anything you like. + By default, your local Git repository is named poky. @@ -238,7 +239,8 @@ active development repository. In this case, any local changes you make to the Yocto Project can be later applied to active development branches of the upstream Yocto Project Git repository. - Furthermore, with the Git repository you can create a local Git branch that + If you want to track a set of local changes while starting from the same point + as a release tarball, you can create a local Git branch that reflects the exact copy of the files at the time of their release. You do this using Git tags that are part of the repository. For more information on concepts, see the section @@ -490,7 +492,7 @@ And, the name of the local branch you have created and checked out is edison-6.0. The files in your repository now exactly match the Yocto Project 1.1 - Release (edison). + Release tag (edison). It is important to understand that when you create and checkout a local working branch based on a tag, your environment matches a specific point in time and not a development branch. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf