Re: [yocto] Git repo setup for Yocto upstream contribution

[Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>]

On 09/01/2023 10:29:13+0100, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> I've been making patches against an integrated poky checkout for many
> years, including bitbake patches. They're usually correctly picked up
> and applied; you only need to ensure you route them to correct mailing
> lists.
> 

No, please send patches against the correct git tree, else you are
putting more load on the maintainers than necessary.
This was the cause of:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y5Sr9HSWIc5LVzl9@mail.local/

This can silently fail and then you need to wait for 7hours for the AB
to fail and this delays testing for one more day.

> Alex
> 
> On Sat, 7 Jan 2023 at 14:05, Yoann Congal <yoann.congal@smile.fr> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Since I plan to work regularly on upstream Yocto and contributing, I
> > wonder about the best way to best setup my git repos to do that...
> >
> > I've started with the upstream poky repo but when I make a commit on,
> > for example, bitbake, my patch applies on a bitbake/some-path file which
> > does not exist in the bitbake repo (only "some-path" exists in the
> > bitbake repo).
> >
> > Is this something I should address ? I found some patches for bitbake in
> > the mailing list that are for "bitbake/..." paths... So, maybe, basing
> > my patches on the poky repo is totally OK for now...?
> >
> > To the Yocto maintainers, how do you manage this (poky repo, combo-layer
> > and individual bitbake/doc/meta-yocto repo) ?
> >
> > Note: I have found the "combo-layer splitpatch" tool but it does not
> > look like a full solution... Maybe I'm missing something?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > --
> > Yoann Congal ("yocton" on IRC)
> > Smile ECS - Tech Expert
> >
> > 
> >

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