[Buildroot] [PATCH] infra: Add a way to apply patches using git

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Arnout Vandecappelle,

On Sat, 01 Nov 2014 23:06:23 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

> > We discussed this proposal at the last Buildroot Developers meeting.
> > Even though we understand the idea and some of us found it potentially
> > interesting, we didn't really like the implementation, but nobody
> > really found a way of implementing something like this in a nice way.
> > 
> > One of the problem is that not all our patches are Git patches, which
> > you had to work-around in your patch in a way that isn't really nice.
> > 
> > Maybe Arnout and Yann (in Cc) remember more of the issues that we
> > discussed at the meeting regarding this proposal.
> 
>  For simple patches, a simple diff is normally sufficient. For more complicated
> stuff, it is really worthwhile to clone the upstream repository and work from
> there - you'll anyway need to do that to upstream the patches.
> 
>  So we felt that the need for this feature did not outweigh the complexity of
> its implementation.

Ah yes, right: we thought that having a Git repository that isn't the
one from upstream made it unpractical to submit patches back to
upstream, and was making the entire feature a bit useless.

Thomas
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