Comment 8 for bug 1769669

@ogra - Interesting find regarding the upstream repo. Our repo is just a mirror of the upstream one to make sure we can control for changes.

In any case, regarding the branch that's an interesting observation, but it seems to be absent in the upstream one too:

$ git clone git://git.denx.de/u-boot.git uboot-upstream
Cloning into 'uboot-upstream'...
remote: Counting objects: 551362, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (93183/93183), done.
remote: Total 551362 (delta 455649), reused 545865 (delta 450199)
Receiving objects: 100% (551362/551362), 112.18 MiB | 7.60 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (455649/455649), done.
$cd uboot-upstream
$ git branch -a
* master
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/master
  remotes/origin/next
  remotes/origin/origin
  remotes/origin/u-boot-2009.11.y
  remotes/origin/u-boot-2013.01.y
  remotes/origin/u-boot-2016.09.y

As you can see, there is no branch named "v2017.05" there either.