[Buildroot] OT: git workflow question

Julien Boibessot julien.boibessot at free.fr
Thu Dec 17 21:40:31 UTC 2009


Hello,

Thomas Petazzoni a écrit :
>
> No. You should have made your changes in a separate branch instead of a
> master branch. Then, you submit your patches. When they are merged, you
> do "git pull" in your master branch. And then "git branch -d
> yourbranch". If everything has been merged, "git branch -d" will
> succeed, otherwise it will fail (and you can use "git branch -D" to
> remove a branch that hasn't been merged).
>
> This is at least how I'm contributing to Buildroot. Not necessarly the
> cleanest way, I'm no git expert.
>   
Could someone update the Buildroot documentation to explain the workflow
for contributing efficiently to the project ?
I'm a newbie with git and it takes me significant time when I want to
share my work with you.
So I'm pretty sure top contributors have tips to not gather and send
patches manually ;-)

Regards,
Julien



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