documentation: update documentation for SRCREV variable

* Add note about specifying a full revision ID to prevent querying the
  remote server on every parse
* Mercurial also supports this variable

(From yocto-docs rev: 47ce273dd751b0ae32b5c53310b6aedc4dade2ef)

Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Paul Eggleton 2011-08-23 15:51:12 +01:00 committed by Richard Purdie
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<glossdef>
<para>
The revision of the source code used to build the package.
This variable applies to Subversion, GitT, or Bazaar only.
This variable applies to Subversion, Git, Mercurial and Bazaar
only. Note that if you wish to build a fixed revision and you wish
to avoid performing a query on the remote repository every time
BitBake parses your recipe, you should specify a SRCREV that is a
full revision identifier (and not just a tag).
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>