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

On Fri, 19 Jun 2026, Quentin Schulz wrote:

> 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"
> ?

  no, the text mentions that those are a couple possibilities for
setting that variable -- you'd use one or the other, not both.

rday