e248393050f4952555e989971d44ba9cf72a9a9f
hiram
  Mon Jul 8 09:41:40 2013 -0700
moving to beta branch for version 286 build refs #9149
diff --git src/userApps/fetchKentSource.sh src/userApps/fetchKentSource.sh
index 81ea3bf..91d2a48 100755
--- src/userApps/fetchKentSource.sh
+++ src/userApps/fetchKentSource.sh
@@ -1,24 +1,25 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 #
 # exit on any error:
 set -beEu -o pipefail
 
-# for version 286 we will use beta branch instead of HEAD
-# export branch="beta"
+# switching to beta for version 286
+export branch="beta"
 
-export branch="HEAD"
+# version 285 needed the HEAD checkout to function OK
+# export branch="HEAD"
 
 # script to fetch extra source to use with the kent build,
 # and then selectively parts of the kent source tree, enough to
 # build just the user utilities
 
 # the combined samtabix source for the SAM/BAM/TABIX functions:
 rm -fr samtabix
 echo "fetch samtabix" 1>&2
 git clone http://genome-source.cse.ucsc.edu/samtabix.git samtabix \
   > /dev/null 2>&1
 
 # These selective git archive commands only work up to a certain size
 # of fetched source (number of arguments), hence the multiple set of
 # individual fetches to get all the parts