Re: [docs] [PATCH v2] dev-manual: add second way to assign "PV" for external SCM

Hi Robert,

On 6/16/26 10:32 PM, Robert P. J. Day via lists.yoctoproject.org 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..cac23ac1e 100644
> --- a/documentation/dev-manual/external-scm.rst
> +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/external-scm.rst
> @@ -13,9 +13,13 @@ 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 of ``PV`` already extracted from
> +the recipe file name::
> 
>      PV = "1.2.3+git"
> +   PV .= "+git"
> 

This is confusing. Do you mean that

PV = "1.2.3+git+git"

will end up being

PV = "1.2.3-gbebedada+git"
?

Cheers,
Quentin