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+SUMMARY = "Test recipe for fetching git submodules"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://git.yoctoproject.org/git/matchbox-panel-2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
+
+INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS = "1"
+
+TAGVALUE = "2.10"
+
+# Deliberately have a tag which has to be resolved but ensure do_unpack doesn't access the network again.
+SRC_URI = "git://git.yoctoproject.org/git/matchbox-panel-2;branch=master;protocol=https"
+SRC_URI:append:gitunpack-enable-recipe = ";tag=${TAGVALUE}"
+SRCREV = "f82ca3f42510fb3ef10f598b393eb373a2c34ca7"
+SRCREV:gitunpack-enable-recipe = ""
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"