diff --git a/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-concepts.xml b/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-concepts.xml index 8a1b38c87d..f085dd710d 100644 --- a/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-concepts.xml +++ b/documentation/overview-manual/overview-manual-concepts.xml @@ -924,17 +924,18 @@ Source Control Managers (Optional) - 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 + fetchers + employing various Source Control Managers (SCMs) such as + Git or Subversion. In such cases, a repository is cloned or checked out. The do_fetch task inside BitBake uses the SRC_URI variable and the argument's prefix to determine the correct - fetcher - module. + fetcher module. For information on how to have the OpenEmbedded build system generate tarballs for Git repositories and place