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authorPaul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>2016-02-19 22:39:00 +1300
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2016-02-21 09:32:00 +0000
commit13409a2b899bb74b8060c840b8c7ef8759d099cb (patch)
treec907dae2639bc067cf5690f520e6c596c7e9c6a7 /scripts/lib
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devtool: modify: tweak help description for behaviour change
I should have adjusted this in OE-Core commit 80a44e52609a89d9ffe816181ae193af491c06ac where the behaviour changed. Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py b/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
index 084039a855..daf18c9318 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
@@ -1320,7 +1320,7 @@ def register_commands(subparsers, context):
parser_add.set_defaults(func=add)
parser_modify = subparsers.add_parser('modify', help='Modify the source for an existing recipe',
- description='Enables modifying the source for an existing recipe. You can either provide your own pre-prepared source tree, or specify -x/--extract to extract the source being fetched by the recipe.',
+ description='Sets up the build environment to modify the source for an existing recipe. The default behaviour is to extract the source being fetched by the recipe into a git tree so you can work on it; alternatively if you already have your own pre-prepared source tree you can specify -n/--no-extract.',
group='starting', order=90)
parser_modify.add_argument('recipename', help='Name of existing recipe to edit (just name - no version, path or extension)')
parser_modify.add_argument('srctree', nargs='?', help='Path to external source tree. If not specified, a subdirectory of %s will be used.' % defsrctree)
@@ -1331,7 +1331,7 @@ def register_commands(subparsers, context):
group = parser_modify.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
group.add_argument('--same-dir', '-s', help='Build in same directory as source', action="store_true")
group.add_argument('--no-same-dir', help='Force build in a separate build directory', action="store_true")
- parser_modify.add_argument('--branch', '-b', default="devtool", help='Name for development branch to checkout (only when using -x) (default "%(default)s")')
+ parser_modify.add_argument('--branch', '-b', default="devtool", help='Name for development branch to checkout (when not using -n/--no-extract) (default "%(default)s")')
parser_modify.set_defaults(func=modify)
parser_extract = subparsers.add_parser('extract', help='Extract the source for an existing recipe',