Re: [docs] [PATCH] dev-manual: add second way to assign "PV" for external SCM

Hi,

On Fri Jun 12, 2026 at 9:58 AM CEST, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> In addition to hard-coding a PV value in the context of an external
> SCM, show also just appending the string "+git" to the value already
> calculated for PV.
>
> Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]>
>
> ---
>
> diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/external-scm.rst b/documentation/dev-manual/external-scm.rst
> index 3ca9079b3..4492de9cd 100644
> --- a/documentation/dev-manual/external-scm.rst
> +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/external-scm.rst
> @@ -13,9 +13,12 @@ Subversion (SVN) and Git.
>
>  To enable this behavior, the :term:`PV` of
>  the recipe needs to include a ``+`` sign in its assignment.
> -Here is an example::
> +Here are a couple examples of how this can be done --- the first
> +hard-coding the value for ``PV``, the second simply appending
> +the string "+git" to the value already assigned to that variable::

s/already assigned/already extracted from the recipe file name/ ?

This is why you'd append, I don't see any other instances.

>
>     PV = "1.2.3+git"
> +   PV .= "+git"
>
>  :term:`Bitbake` later includes the source control information in :term:`PKGV`
>  during the packaging phase.


Antonin