[Buildroot] Generating patches against packages source code
Richard Braun
rbraun at sceen.net
Sat Dec 29 17:33:20 UTC 2012
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 06:13:01PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Please read the discussion before saying things that are out of topic.
>
> Stefan is *NOT* talking about adding Signed-off-by lines to Buildroot
> patches, but Signed-off-by lines to patches against packages in
> Buildroot, i.e the patches that go in
> package/<pkg>/<pkg>-something.patch.
>
> And those patches are not necessarily generated with Git. They can be
> manually generated with diff, generated with quilt, etc.
>
> So, no, the story is not as simple as adding the -s option to git
> commit or git format-patch, because Stefan is maybe not using git to
> generate patches for the packages.
Well I understand that, which is why I've replied only after your answer
which mentions git to create the package patches. I didn't think it
would be out of topic then.
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Richard Braun
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