[Buildroot] Migration to the latest stable release

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

Hi Milan,

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Milan Stevanovic
<milan.o.stevanovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3 November 2011 14:22, Thomas De Schampheleire
> <patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com> wrote:
[..]
>> >
>> > I want to migrate to the latest buildroot stable release. Also, I want
>> > to
>> > keep all my changes after migration.
>> > Is there a some procedure for this?
>>
>> Assuming you have not put your current buildroot environment in a
>> version control system, you'll have to first generate a list of
>> changes you have made compared to the baseline you started from, and
>> then reapply the changes on the new release (you could use diff/patch
>> to help with this).
>>
>> Of course, type of changes you made will determine how easy this goes.

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for fast replay.
>
> Unfortunately, I was not precise.
> Current buildroot environment is under git version control system.

In that case, you can use the 'git pull' command to fetch the new
version (you'll probably want to specify a specific tag) and merge
your changes with the latest release. This is generic git usage,
nothing buildroot specific.

Best regards,
Thomas