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| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml | 6 |
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diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml index b5c95481a7..da6ad82901 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-variables.xml @@ -525,9 +525,13 @@ <glossentry id='var-BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS'><glossterm>BB_GENERATE_MIRROR_TARBALLS</glossterm> <glossdef> <para> - Causes tarballs of the Git repositories to be placed in the + Causes tarballs of the Git repositories, including the + Git metadata, to be placed in the <link linkend='var-DL_DIR'><filename>DL_DIR</filename></link> directory. + </para> + + <para> For performance reasons, creating and placing tarballs of the Git repositories is not the default action by the OpenEmbedded build system. |