[yocto] Yocto branches with other meta-data sets

[Edward Vidal]

Hello all
I am trying to understand the various branches of poky.
It appears that 1.4_M6 became dylan-9.0.0 which is DISTRO_VERSION    =
"1.4".  Is this correct?

top level of meta-oe
git branch -a
* master
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/danny
  remotes/origin/danny-next
  remotes/origin/denzil
  remotes/origin/denzil-next
  remotes/origin/dylan
  remotes/origin/dylan-next
  remotes/origin/master
my conf/bblayers has the following entry
/home/vidal/POKY/build060613_dylan/poky/meta-oe/meta-oe \

When I have the following in my conf/bblayers
/home/vidal/POKY/build060613_dylan/poky/meta-oe \ I get errors.
can not find conf/layer.conf.
When using meta-oe with Yocto which branch should I be using
 origin/master, origin/dylan, or  origin/dylan-next?
My previous builds have been using origin/master
For my Yocto I use the following

git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky
cd poky
git checkout -b dylan origin/dylan
Which I found in dev-manual 3.6.1. Repositories, Tags, and Branches
I noticed that this started as DISTRO_VERSION    = "1.4" a few days ago and
now it is DISTRO_VERSION    = "1.4.1".

When using meta-ti which I use to build images for beaglebone & pandaboard.
top level of meta-ti
git branch -a
* master
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/danny
  remotes/origin/denzil
  remotes/origin/master
  remotes/origin/split

This branch works with origin/dylan of yocto meta-ti           =
"(nobranch):d61bfa88ed3df9190ac9fd5643c27f77b34c5f01".
I do not see a origin/dylan for meta-ti.
Is Yocto the main source of meta-data that other are creating same branches?
Is Yocto project participation Yocto Project Compatible what is driving the
same branches?

Any and all help will be appreciated.
Thanks
Ed Vidal
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