From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
To: Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>
Cc: Yoann Congal <yoann.congal@smile.fr>,
Yocto Mailing list <yocto@lists.yoctoproject.org>
Subject: Re: [yocto] Git repo setup for Yocto upstream contribution
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 16:02:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y71+E2AWNBKuDQbf@mail.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANNYZj_o1q4txLxo9EchoDcGcDntmSvo8bHy0=Tw1LkX426HGw@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/01/2023 15:54:55+0100, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jan 2023 at 20:16, Alexandre Belloni
> <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com> wrote:
> > Just try to apply your patch on a bitbake repository, it will reproduce.
>
> I tried. This happens only if a 3-way merge is enabled: for existing
> files git will strip the leading directory as needed, but for newly
> introduced files it will place them where the patch specifies.
>
> Otherwise, the patch is fully rejected (by default) or fully correctly
> accepted (with -p2).
Either way, this is a pain for the maintainer, you should send patches
that apply cleanly.
--
Alexandre Belloni, co-owner and COO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-10 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-07 13:05 Git repo setup for Yocto upstream contribution Yoann Congal
2023-01-09 9:29 ` [yocto] " Alexander Kanavin
2023-01-09 12:07 ` Yoann Congal
2023-01-09 18:23 ` Alexandre Belloni
2023-01-09 18:30 ` Alexander Kanavin
2023-01-09 19:16 ` Alexandre Belloni
2023-01-10 14:54 ` Alexander Kanavin
2023-01-10 15:02 ` Alexandre Belloni [this message]
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