selinux-policy for Fedora is a large patch off the mainline. We have two branches for each Fedora release. $FEDORA_RELEASE-base $FEDORA_RELEASE-contrib If you want to work and send patches against devel Fedora release, please use git checkout -b rawhide-base -t origin/rawhide-base git checkout -b rawhide-contrib -t origin/rawhide-contrib