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| author |   Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> | 2017-03-18 10:16:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> | 2017-03-18 10:17:28 +0100 |
| commit | 00f0ed296c7b145239ba53e57d58bdd1fa42afdd (patch) | |
| tree | f704df6d68c25c5230e69d4c7ad7702a315c9458 | |
| parent | net-misc/orbited: Remove last-rited pkg, #591506 (diff) | |
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git-r3.eclass: Document EGIT_COMMIT* <=> EGIT_BRANCH, #612852
Document the relation between EGIT_COMMIT* and EGIT_BRANCH variables.
| -rw-r--r-- | eclass/git-r3.eclass | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/eclass/git-r3.eclass b/eclass/git-r3.eclass index f8ea81b5ac87..1b49f66f5f00 100644 --- a/eclass/git-r3.eclass +++ b/eclass/git-r3.eclass @@ -153,8 +153,9 @@ fi # @DEFAULT_UNSET # @DESCRIPTION: # The tag name or commit identifier to check out. If unset, newest -# commit from the branch will be used. If set, EGIT_BRANCH will -# be ignored. +# commit from the branch will be used. Note that if set to a commit +# not on HEAD branch, EGIT_BRANCH needs to be set to a branch on which +# the commit is available. # # It can be overriden via env using ${PN}_LIVE_COMMIT variable. @@ -162,7 +163,8 @@ fi # @DEFAULT_UNSET # @DESCRIPTION: # Attempt to check out the repository state for the specified timestamp. -# The date should be in format understood by 'git rev-list'. +# The date should be in format understood by 'git rev-list'. The commits +# on EGIT_BRANCH will be considered. # # The eclass will select the last commit with commit date preceding # the specified date. When merge commits are found, only first parents |