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| author | Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> | 2016-02-01 18:45:16 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> | 2016-02-24 00:04:12 +0100 |
| commit | 4311eb0059846d66e390c254849712a1b5a43ec1 (patch) | |
| tree | c43c1f51836833145d6693357325b3e7883b9e76 /docs | |
| parent | 21af11cce07f60ed6bbc4a21d5247a5153cbfac0 (diff) | |
docs/manual/contribute.txt: add section for preparing patch series
In subsequent patches, we will add more explanation about how to
prepare patches, so it will be worthwhile to have a separate section
for the series preparation.
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Reviewed-by: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
[Thomas: rewrap to our normal formatting practice.]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/manual/contribute.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manual/contribute.txt b/docs/manual/contribute.txt index b74897d28..90c73de5f 100644 --- a/docs/manual/contribute.txt +++ b/docs/manual/contribute.txt @@ -182,10 +182,13 @@ _Please, do not attach patches to bugs, send them to the mailing list instead_. If you made some changes to Buildroot and you would like to contribute -them to the Buildroot project, proceed as follows. Starting from the -changes committed in your local git view, _rebase_ your development -branch on top of the upstream tree before generating a patch set. To do -so, run: +them to the Buildroot project, proceed as follows. + +==== Preparing a patch series + +Starting from the changes committed in your local git view, _rebase_ +your development branch on top of the upstream tree before generating +a patch set. To do so, run: --------------------- $ git fetch --all --tags |