Commit 4311eb00 authored by Arnout Vandecappelle's avatar Arnout Vandecappelle Committed by Thomas Petazzoni
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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: default avatarArnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Reviewed-by: default avatarYegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
[Thomas: rewrap to our normal formatting practice.]
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
parent 21af11cc

docs/manual/contribute.txt

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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:



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$ git fetch --all --tags