[Buildroot] Migration to the latest stable release

Milan Stevanovic milan.o.stevanovic at gmail.com
Thu Nov 3 15:05:07 UTC 2011


Hi Thomas

It is clear. Your first advice is for me.
In git repository for my project  buildroot environment is added as source
code.
My buildroot environment is not under git for buildroot. It is in local git
repository.
I hope you understand me.

Thanks a lot for advice
Best regards
Milan

On 3 November 2011 15:01, Thomas De Schampheleire <
patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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