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overview-manual: Updated SCM section

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Fixes [YOCTO #10098]

I updated the "Source Control Managers (Optional)" section
to reference the "Fetchers" section in the BB manuual.

(From yocto-docs rev: 0c014fba509d3ec28236e63a7bd2355b447c4acf)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Scott Rifenbark
2019-06-10 13:38:25 -05:00
committed by Richard Purdie
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<title>Source Control Managers (Optional)</title>
<para>
Another place the build system can get source files from is
through a Source Control Manager (SCM) such as Git or
Subversion.
Another place from which the build system can get source
files is with
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_BB_URL;#bb-fetchers'>fetchers</ulink>
employing various Source Control Managers (SCMs) such as
Git or Subversion.
In such cases, a repository is cloned or checked out.
The
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#ref-tasks-fetch'><filename>do_fetch</filename></ulink>
task inside BitBake uses
the <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-SRC_URI'><filename>SRC_URI</filename></ulink>
variable and the argument's prefix to determine the correct
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_BB_URL;#bb-fetchers'><filename>fetcher</filename></ulink>
module.
fetcher module.
<note>
For information on how to have the OpenEmbedded build
system generate tarballs for Git repositories and place