diff --git a/sync.profile b/sync.profile
index bddfd0f7f3554f80ff9b04db036dd5d2e08b4395..3efcbca8e10ad57d819ac58bf05598b555119da5 100644
--- a/sync.profile
+++ b/sync.profile
@@ -15,9 +15,10 @@
 # Each of the module version specifiers can take one of the following values:
 #   - A specific Git revision.
 #   - any git symbolic ref resolvable from the module's repository (e.g. "refs/heads/master" to track master branch)
+#   - an empty string to use the same branch under test (dependencies will become "refs/heads/master" if we are in the master branch)
 #
 %dependencies = (
-        "qtbase" => "refs/heads/stable",
-        "qtxmlpatterns" => "refs/heads/stable",
-        "qtjsbackend" => "refs/heads/stable",
+        "qtbase" => "",
+        "qtxmlpatterns" => "",
+        "qtjsbackend" => "",
 );