[yocto] Newbie trying to get started

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Working with a gumstix is sort of like having to work with a vendor
> branch: for best results you have to use their stuff, but their stuff
> isn't really upstream or tracking upstream very closely. So it's best
> not to confuse the "real" Yocto, for gumstix's Yocto-based build. For
> example their instructions have you use the "repo" utility (instead of
> just using git) and start your project with:

https://github.com/adam-lee/Gumstix-YoctoProject-Repo/blob/danny/default.xml
shows that its using danny branch. The detached head is an artifact
of repo it does not mean its using a random revision. You should
start a topic branch with repo and the detached head state should disappear.