Bug 14493

Summary:	BB_GIT_SHALLOW is not documented
Product:	[Documentation] BitBake User Manual	Reporter:	Richard Purdie <richard.purdie>
Component:	bitbake-manual	Assignee:	Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Medium+	CC:	michael.opdenacker, paul, randy.macleod
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	4.3 M1
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Yes (doc changes required)

Description Richard Purdie 2021-07-29 09:47:02 UTC

Some of the information here:

https://www.openembedded.org/pipermail/bitbake-devel/2017-May/008640.html

should be added to the bitbake manual in the git fetcher section.

Comment 1 Paul Barker 2021-08-13 15:35:04 UTC

Patch sent to the docs list: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/docs/topic/patch_ref_manual_document/84865622

Comment 2 Michael Opdenacker 2021-10-21 15:39:44 UTC

Adopting this bug, not so much left to complete it
(send it to the right list for inclusion in BitBake documentation)

Comment 3 Michael Opdenacker 2021-10-21 16:39:35 UTC

Patch updated according to feedback and sent to the bitbake-devel mailing list:
https://lists.openembedded.org/g/bitbake-devel/message/12811
https://lists.openembedded.org/g/bitbake-devel/message/12812

Comment 4 Randy MacLeod 2022-04-13 20:43:52 UTC

Medium+ issues should pick a milestone so I picked M1 arbitrarily Michael.

Comment 5 Michael Opdenacker 2023-04-28 16:07:43 UTC

This variable is now described in the BitBake manual.
Closing the bug.