The UPSTREAM_CHECK_COMMITS is used in multiple recipes but not explained in the documentation, it is probably related to the other UPSTREAM_CHECK_* variables. Use: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/meta/recipes-extended/go-examples/go-helloworld_0.1.bb?h=dunfell#n10 Implementation: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/meta/lib/oe/recipeutils.py?h=dunfell#n1014
Thanks for reporting this. However, this is a duplicate of bug #14431 (working on it!) Thanks again Michael. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 14431 ***