From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Braun Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 18:33:20 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Generating patches against packages source code In-Reply-To: <20121229181301.37d3d131@skate> References: <1356745553-15362-1-git-send-email-stefan.froberg@petroprogram.com> <20121229085947.130784d2@skate> <50DEFA7A.7020002@petroprogram.com> <20121229153251.6bdfecfe@skate> <50DF04B3.30801@petroprogram.com> <20121229171540.5bb22f40@skate> <50DF2029.1040605@petroprogram.com> <20121229170948.GA15925@mail.sceen.net> <20121229181301.37d3d131@skate> Message-ID: <20121229173320.GA19710@mail.sceen.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 06:13:01PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Please read the discussion before saying things that are out of topic. > > Stefan is *NOT* talking about adding Signed-off-by lines to Buildroot > patches, but Signed-off-by lines to patches against packages in > Buildroot, i.e the patches that go in > package//-something.patch. > > And those patches are not necessarily generated with Git. They can be > manually generated with diff, generated with quilt, etc. > > So, no, the story is not as simple as adding the -s option to git > commit or git format-patch, because Stefan is maybe not using git to > generate patches for the packages. Well I understand that, which is why I've replied only after your answer which mentions git to create the package patches. I didn't think it would be out of topic then. -- Richard Braun