From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 15:33:28 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 4/4] docs/manual/contribute.txt: add formatting patches section In-Reply-To: References: <1454348717-4711-1-git-send-email-arnout@mind.be> <1454348717-4711-5-git-send-email-arnout@mind.be> Message-ID: <56B8A738.6010602@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 08-02-16 11:48, Yegor Yefremov wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) > wrote: [snip] >> +The summary line should be something like +: bump to version > + version>+. > > For now bump message looks so: > > packagename: bump to > > should we keep it this way, i.e. without the word "version"? Since 2015.02, we have: 89 times ': bump version' 382 times ': bump version to ...' 816 times ': bump to version ...' Regards, Arnout > >> +If the new version only contains security updates compared to the existing one, >> + the summary should be +: security bump to version + > > same here > >> + and the commit message body should show the CVE numbers that are fixed. >> +If some package patches can be removed in the new version, it should be >> + explained explicitly why they can be removed, preferably with the upstream >> + commit ID. >> +Also any other required changes should be explained explicitly, like configure >> + options that no longer exist or are no longer needed. >> + >> + >> ==== Preparing a patch series >> >> Starting from the changes committed in your local git view, _rebase_ your >> -- >> 2.7.0 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> buildroot mailing list >> buildroot at busybox.net >> http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/buildroot -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout dot vandecappelle at essensium dot com Senior Embedded Software Architect . . . . . . +32-478-010353 (mobile) Essensium, Mind division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium . . . . . BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7493 020B C7E3 8618 8DEC 222C 82EB F404 F9AC 0DDF