Recipetool create from Git Repo

I am following a tutorial How to create your first recipe and enable auto-start using systemd. It is noted that

Note that the recipe is setup to automatically download the sources from the GNU URL. The recipetool utility can also use URIs from source code management systems such as Git.

Can the recipetool accept a repo URL as an argument or do I need to create a skeleton recipe and add my git repo info?

Solution 1:

I found an answer in a book!

 recipetool create -V 1.0 https://github.com/OSSystems/bbexample

From

Embedded Linux Development using Yocto Projects Second Edition

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