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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 21:49:56 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] .gitignore: ignore outgoing directory
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Hello,

On Sat, 28 Apr 2018 18:55:22 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> > It's only the Buildroot manual that suggests to put them in an
> > outgoing/ folder (I'm not sure why).  
> 
> And I'm not even sure why we even creat the patches locally, when it is
> perfectly possible to send them directly, e.g. to send the last three
> patches:
> 
>     git send-email --to buidlroot at buildroot.org HEAD^^^..

I think for people beginning with git and patches, it is good to use
format-patch, so that you can check what the patches look like before
sending them.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com