diff --git a/sync.profile b/sync.profile
index 7067afcb59ee414a8aaaa9953028357db1b4a984..7a267d4dfe09bed120a82d2b532e77fbbd1a3e8f 100644
--- a/sync.profile
+++ b/sync.profile
@@ -9,8 +9,9 @@
 # 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" => "",
 );