[yocto] Using stable releases from git

[jfabernathy]

On 01/30/2012 05:58 PM, Joshua Lock wrote:
> It's beginning to sound like we've caught some folks off guard by 
> pushing changes to the edison branch of the poky repository in 
> preparation for an upcoming edison point release.
>
> The named branches are development branches for the release, stable 
> release development will be done in the named branch and we can't 
> guarantee they will be issue free (though we intend them to be where 
> possible).
>
> If you're looking to use a git checkout which matches the release 
> tarballs you should checkout the tags for the releases. i.e. for Poky 
> Edison-6.0/Yocto 1.1:
>
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/tag/?id=edison-6.0
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-intel/tag/?id=edison-6.0
>
So instead of doing:

git checkout -b edison origin/edison

what should I do if I want to stay in sync with the tarball.  This may just be a doc problem.

Jim A


> Having suffered through a couple of stable cycles recently I 
> anticipate that in future the release branches will be updated more 
> frequently. This will make it even more important to use a tag, rather 
> than a branch, to track the releases using git.
>
> Cheers,
> Joshua

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