[Buildroot] [git commit branch/2019.02.x] qt5base: Add patch to fix compile issue with gcc9

Julien Béraud julien.beraud at orolia.com
Fri Sep 20 07:50:34 UTC 2019


On 19/09/2019 21:48, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> That's not what Peter is talking about. He is talking about the prefix
> of your patch. Normally, patches are like this:
> 
>   [PATCH] package/qt5base: something
> 
> or:
> 
>   [PATCH 2019.02.x] package/qt5base: something
> 
> But you sent it as:
> 
>   [git commit branch/2019.02.x] ...
> 
> If you look at the mailing list traffic, e-mails prefixed with [PATCH]
> are actual patches submitted by contributors, while e-mails prefixed
> with [git commit] are auto-generated e-mails that get sent when the
> Buildroot maintainers merge some patches and push them as commits to
> the official Git repo.
> 
> Hence, your patch was quite confusing, because its title prefix looked
> like a Git commit notification.

Thanks for the explanation. So the correct way to send a patch for a 
specific branch is :
[PATCH branch-name] ... ?

Regards,
Julien


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