From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from vms173003pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.3]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RIl8w-00058K-9R for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:50:30 +0200 Received: from gandalf.denix.org ([unknown] [96.240.135.93]) by vms173003.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0LTM00F7OULAM6G5@vms173003.mailsrvcs.net> for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:44:09 -0500 (CDT) Received: by gandalf.denix.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 44CA814AF5D; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:43:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:43:58 -0400 From: Denys Dmytriyenko To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Message-id: <20111025174358.GA7690@denix.org> References: <8721E570-6C63-4CC6-AC4A-854409FFF3E6@gmail.com> <20111025075030.GA17580@ad.chargestorm.se> MIME-version: 1.0 In-reply-to: <20111025075030.GA17580@ad.chargestorm.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Subject: Re: [2011.03-maintenance] Pull request for binutils X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:50:30 -0000 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 09:50:30AM +0200, Anders Darander wrote: > * Mats K?rrman [111025 09:37]: > > I'm sorry for the slow progress but I'm working 100% on something else > > so this is overtime... > > Unfortunately a too common situation... > > > What is the correct practice; to fork the oe repository at GitHub or > > to create a "username/maintenance" branch in the same repo? > > Well, unless you already have a git account, with rw permission > openembedded.org (and thus can push to e.g. openembedded), the easiest > thing should be to use another hosting. I'm using github for my > pull-requests to meta-oe and oe-core. > > If you do that, just: > 1) fork openembedded on github > 2) add the remote to you local git-tree > 3) push your local branch to github, using i.e. `git push github > featureXXX`, assuming that you named the remote github. Just don't forget that you want your personal tree be at the tip of 2011.03-maintenance branch, not the master oe.dev (which would otherwise be similar to what you just sent). Then you can cherry-pick the needed commit, push it to github and generate a pull request. -- Denys