diff --git a/sync.profile b/sync.profile
index ccc4a157472bfb4328b7af86f3d9dd9c0cf8cbd8..3fad8a6b8aa7c6873321cd8e87feab576112ccc2 100644
--- a/sync.profile
+++ b/sync.profile
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 # 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",
+        "qtbase" => "",
 );