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[4/8] doc: bitbake-user-manual-metadata: specify that current dir won't be searched for include_all

Message ID 20260112-doc-directives-v1-4-b23923cfce89@cherry.de
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Series doc: bitbake-user-manual-metadata: misc improvements on sharing functionality | expand

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Quentin Schulz Jan. 12, 2026, 4:36 p.m. UTC 
From: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>

We've forgotten to make it explicit that include_all differs from the
include directive also by the fact it doesn't look for the file
relatively to the file with the include_all directive, so let's make
that clear.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
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 doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst
index 9233c4555..d7335f29e 100644
--- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst
+++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst
@@ -910,6 +910,10 @@  The ``include_all`` directive works like the :ref:`include
 directive but will include *all* of the files that match the specified path in
 the enabled layers (layers part of :term:`BBLAYERS`).
 
+Note that only :term:`BBPATH` will be searched, the parent directory of the file
+with the ``include_all`` directive will not be searched (unlike for the
+``include`` directive).
+
 .. note::
 
    This behaviour is rarely what you want in normal operation, and should