combo-layer issue

Morning all,

I am trying to replicate how Poky is created using combo-layer. I have referenced https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Combo-layer

The issue seems to be related when I define "branch". Not defining it works fine (ie, master default). I suspect I am doing something incorrectly or a compatibility issue with my local git version 1.9.1.

can someone poke to go in the right direction.

kind regards,
Armin

combo-layer.conf:

[bitbake]
src_uri = git://git.openembedded.org/bitbake
local_repo_dir = /tmp/src/test/bitbake
dest_dir = bitbake
branch = 1.26
last_revision =

[oe-core]
src_uri = git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core
local_repo_dir = /tmp/src/test/oecore dest_dir = .
branch = fido
last_revision =

Error message:

[07:22:26] fatal: ambiguous argument 'fido': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
fido

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./scripts/combo-layer", line 869, in <module>
ret = main()
File "./scripts/combo-layer", line 865, in main

    actions.get(args[1], action_error)(confdata, args[1:])

File "./scripts/combo-layer", line 220, in action_init
rev = runcmd('git rev-parse %s' % initialrev, ldir).strip()
File "./scripts/combo-layer", line 179, in runcmd
raise e
CalledProcessError: Command 'git rev-parse fido' returned non-zero exit status 128

Interesting! I had never heard of this :-)

I just tried with git version 2.4.0.rc0.43.gcf8a8c6 and had the same result, so it's not related to git version (or its relying on a very old version of git).