From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 00:07:47 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/4] docs/manual/contribute.txt: add section for preparing patch series In-Reply-To: <1454348717-4711-4-git-send-email-arnout@mind.be> References: <1454348717-4711-1-git-send-email-arnout@mind.be> <1454348717-4711-4-git-send-email-arnout@mind.be> Message-ID: <20160224000747.1e558ce8@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind), On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 18:45:16 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) wrote: > In subsequent patches, we will add more explanation about how to > prepare patches, so it will be worthwhile to have a separate section > for the series preparation. > > Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) > --- > Note: for this patch, I started using > http://dustycloud.org/blog/vcs-friendly-patchable-document-line-wrapping/ > If nobody opposes, I propose to require this formatting for the manual > from now on. It will be weird for a while, but in the end I think it > would be A Good Thing (TM). If that formatting had been followed, this > patch, for example, would have a diffstat of +3 instead of the current > +7-4. > --- > docs/manual/contribute.txt | 11 +++++++---- > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) Applied to master, after rewrapping to our normal standards, as discussed on IRC. I don't really like the proposed new formatting (but I can get convinced), but mainly I didn't like the fact that it was only applied to one part of the manual. Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com