<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 October 2016 at 17:35, Robert P. J. Day <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rpjday@crashcourse.ca" target="_blank">rpjday@crashcourse.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":p7" class="a3s aXjCH m15816aec4d9c0267"> fair enough ... i'm embarrassed to admit i didn't really understand<br>
the versioning selection so i'm going to examine it way more carefully<br>
now. i wonder how many recipes in oe-core are "_git" recipes that, in<br>
the end, just lock down to a specific version. as you say, i was a bit<br>
surprised.</div></blockquote></div><br>Personally I've been endorsing the practise where _<a href="http://git.bb">git.bb</a> is only used for recipes that are actually tracking git development branches, and if it's just a release that it simply fetched over git via a SHA of a release tag then the recipe should be _<a href="http://1.2.3.bb">1.2.3.bb</a> for clarity.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Ross</div></div>