GIT Patch

PATCH TO BUILDROOT

You can see a detail desctiption on the page submitting-patches:

First of all you have to clone the repository:

$ git clone git://git.buildroot.net/buildroot

Then you have to make sure that your name and email are right:

$ git config --global user.name 'Oscar Gomez Fuente'

$ git config --global user.email oscargomezf@gmail.com

In order to send a patch properly you have to follow the next steps:

• Sometimes, it is even easier to discard you history with:

$ git reset --soft origin/master

• And thenselect individual changes with:

$ git add file_name_1 file_name_2 ... ...file_name_n

• Then you have to commit the changes:

$ git commit -s

This git commit option, "-s" add this text at the end of the message:

Signed-off-by: Oscar Gomez Fuente <oscargomezf@gmail.com>

• Rebase your development branch on top of the upstream tree before generating a patch set. To do so, run:

$ git fetch --all --tags

$ git rebase origin/master

• Now, you are ready to generate then submit your patch set:

$ git format-patch -M -n -s -o outgoing origin/master

This will generate patch files in the outgoing subdirectory, automatically adding the Signed-off-by line.

• Buildroot provides a handy tool to know to whom your patches should be sent, called get-developers. This tool reads your patches and outputs the appropriate git send-email command to use:

$ ./utils/get-developers outgoing/*

Use the output of get-developers to send your patches:

$ git send-email --to buildroot@buildroot.org --cc bob --cc alice outgoing/*

Firstly, you have to commit your changes and then:

git format-patch<branch-name or commit ID>Create a patch for each commit contained in the current branch but not in <branch-name>. You can also specify a commit ID instead of<branch-name>.

git am < patch-file Apply a patch to the current branch.