[Buildroot] [PATCH 4/4] docs/manual/contribute.txt: add formatting patches section

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Feb 23 23:08:03 UTC 2016


Dear Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind),

On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 18:45:17 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle
(Essensium/Mind) wrote:
> Thomas P. has sent a few big feedback mails recently that explain how a
> patch should be formatted. Indeed, this was not explained much in the
> manual, so add a section that explains how patches should be formatted.
> This is based heavily on the feedback that Thomas P. gave. Also,
> specific examples for new packages and version bumps are added.
> 
> This will allow us to refer to
> https://buildroot.org/manual.html#submitting-patches
> in the future instead of composing long mails.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>
> ---
>  docs/manual/contribute.txt | 81 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 81 insertions(+)

Applied to master, thanks. Same as PATCH 3/4 in terms of formatting,
I've changed it back to our normal practice.

Thanks!

Thomas
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