[Buildroot] Buildroot and version control systems

[Will Newton]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Jonathan dumaresq <jdumaresq at cimeq.qc.ca> wrote:
> Hi Will,
>
>
> I think this is how most people use buildroot - taking the upstream
> version and making local modifications. It should be fairly
> straightforward to do this in any version control system using e.g. in
> CVS a vendor branch, or in git having two branches, one to track
> upstream and one for your changes.
>
> We are using svn as source version control.

Subversion has some notion of vendor branches, e.g.:

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s05.html

But I am not an svn expert so I can't really help with the details.