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Subject: Re: Issue with git fetcher
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On 2012-10-18 10:41, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 18 October 2012 17:37, Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>> I ran across an issue with this with a recipe I imported from
>> meta-openembedded/meta-oe.  It contained these lines:
>>    SRCREV = "2fb4be9a99a2c2a9435339830e3d940171cc0d9b"
>>    SRC_URI = "git://git.libav.org/libav.git;protocol=git;branch=release/0.8"
>
> Specifying a revision *and* specifying a branch doesn't make sense
> with git.  Presumably the SRCREV is the correct reference and the
> branch parameter is just causing network traffic for no reason.
>
> Removing the branch parameter sounds like exactly the right thing to do.

That's pretty much what I thought.

Maybe a warning or some such would be useful here.

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