[Buildroot] Help submitting patches

Yegor Yefremov yegorslists at googlemail.com
Mon Feb 6 21:10:16 UTC 2012


On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at uclibc.org> wrote:
>>>>>> "J" == J C Woltz <jwoltz at gmail.com> writes:
>
>  J> Please forgive my ignorance. I would like to submit some patches. I am using
>  J> git. Can someone paste the commands to format patch and sign off?
>
> git format-patch -s master
>
> That is if you made your changes on a seperate branch like you should,
> otherwise replace master with the commit id of the last change before
> your local changes.

or just call

git format-patch -1

to format the last made patch. See here for further details for the
case you need to rework a patch series:
https://libbits.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/managing-patch-series-with-git/

Yegor



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