diff --git a/meta/lib/oe/recipeutils.py b/meta/lib/oe/recipeutils.py
index 630ae967af..f53c2b7126 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oe/recipeutils.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oe/recipeutils.py
@@ -421,6 +421,8 @@ def copy_recipe_files(d, tgt_dir, whole_dir=False, download=True, all_variants=F
             # Ensure we handle class-target if we're dealing with one of the variants
             variants.append('target')
             for variant in variants:
+                if variant.startswith("devupstream"):
+                    localdata.setVar('SRCPV', 'git')
                 localdata.setVar('CLASSOVERRIDE', 'class-%s' % variant)
                 fetch_urls(localdata)