[U-Boot] Buildman cookbook

[Daniel Schwierzeck <daniel.schwierzeck@gmail.com>]

Hi Simon,

>>
>> - I work a lot with local branches, and regularly run into this:
>>
>>   -> tools/buildman/buildman -n -b tq-generic-board
>>   No section: 'make-flags'
>>   Branch 'tq-generic-board' not found or has no upstream
>>
>>   Can we not avoid this?  Or add a default to "master"?
> 
> I think we might be able to have a default. How did you create the
> local branch? I normally use:
> 
> git checkout -b my-branch upstream/master
> 
> and it does the right thing.
> 
>>
>>   The README recommends to use "git branch --set-upstream ...", but
>>   actually I don't want to do that - it is simply not needed.
>>   Furthermore, git complains;
>>
>>   -> git branch --set-upstream tq-generic-board master
>>   The --set-upstream flag is deprecated and will be removed. Consider using --track or --set-upstream-to
>>   Branch tq-generic-board set up to track local branch master.
> 
> Yes I notice that in recent versions. We probably need another round
> of tweaks although I mostly have my hands full for a few weeks.
> 

it would be nice if one can specify branch ranges. For example:

tools/buildman/buildman -b master..my_feature
tools/buildman/buildman -b origin/master..master

-- 
- Daniel