diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py
index a877720769..22ea0ecba9 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py
@@ -917,6 +917,28 @@ class DevtoolModifyTests(DevtoolBase):
         # Try building
         bitbake(testrecipe)
 
+    def test_devtool_modify_git_no_extract(self):
+        # Check preconditions
+        testrecipe = 'psplash'
+        src_uri = get_bb_var('SRC_URI', testrecipe)
+        self.assertIn('git://', src_uri, 'This test expects the %s recipe to be a git recipe' % testrecipe)
+        # Clean up anything in the workdir/sysroot/sstate cache
+        bitbake('%s -c cleansstate' % testrecipe)
+        # Try modifying a recipe
+        tempdir = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='devtoolqa')
+        self.track_for_cleanup(tempdir)
+        self.track_for_cleanup(self.workspacedir)
+        self.add_command_to_tearDown('bitbake -c clean %s' % testrecipe)
+        self.add_command_to_tearDown('bitbake-layers remove-layer */workspace')
+        result = runCmd('git clone https://git.yoctoproject.org/psplash %s && devtool modify -n %s %s' % (tempdir, testrecipe, tempdir))
+        self.assertExists(os.path.join(self.workspacedir, 'conf', 'layer.conf'), 'Workspace directory not created. devtool output: %s' % result.output)
+        matches = glob.glob(os.path.join(self.workspacedir, 'appends', 'psplash_*.bbappend'))
+        self.assertTrue(matches, 'bbappend not created')
+        # Test devtool status
+        result = runCmd('devtool status')
+        self.assertIn(testrecipe, result.output)
+        self.assertIn(tempdir, result.output)
+
     def test_devtool_modify_git_crates_subpath(self):
         # This tests two things in devtool context:
         #   - that we support local git dependencies for cargo based recipe