[yocto] Using stable releases from git

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 5:05 PM, jfabernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

git checkout -b edison1.1 edison-6.0

(confusing versions... I think that tag should really be poky-6.0)

-M