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| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py b/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py index 084039a855..daf18c9318 100644 --- a/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py +++ b/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py @@ -1320,7 +1320,7 @@ def register_commands(subparsers, context): parser_add.set_defaults(func=add) parser_modify = subparsers.add_parser('modify', help='Modify the source for an existing recipe', - description='Enables modifying the source for an existing recipe. You can either provide your own pre-prepared source tree, or specify -x/--extract to extract the source being fetched by the recipe.', + description='Sets up the build environment to modify the source for an existing recipe. The default behaviour is to extract the source being fetched by the recipe into a git tree so you can work on it; alternatively if you already have your own pre-prepared source tree you can specify -n/--no-extract.', group='starting', order=90) parser_modify.add_argument('recipename', help='Name of existing recipe to edit (just name - no version, path or extension)') parser_modify.add_argument('srctree', nargs='?', help='Path to external source tree. If not specified, a subdirectory of %s will be used.' % defsrctree) @@ -1331,7 +1331,7 @@ def register_commands(subparsers, context): group = parser_modify.add_mutually_exclusive_group() group.add_argument('--same-dir', '-s', help='Build in same directory as source', action="store_true") group.add_argument('--no-same-dir', help='Force build in a separate build directory', action="store_true") - parser_modify.add_argument('--branch', '-b', default="devtool", help='Name for development branch to checkout (only when using -x) (default "%(default)s")') + parser_modify.add_argument('--branch', '-b', default="devtool", help='Name for development branch to checkout (when not using -n/--no-extract) (default "%(default)s")') parser_modify.set_defaults(func=modify) parser_extract = subparsers.add_parser('extract', help='Extract the source for an existing recipe', |