[Buildroot] Generating patches against packages source code

[Richard Braun <rbraun@sceen.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/<pkg>/<pkg>-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