[Buildroot] [PATCH 3/4] docs/manual/contribute.txt: add section for preparing patch series

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind),

On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 18:45:16 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle
(Essensium/Mind) wrote:
> In subsequent patches, we will add more explanation about how to
> prepare patches, so it will be worthwhile to have a separate section
> for the series preparation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>
> ---
> Note: for this patch, I started using
> http://dustycloud.org/blog/vcs-friendly-patchable-document-line-wrapping/
> If nobody opposes, I propose to require this formatting for the manual
> from now on. It will be weird for a while, but in the end I think it
> would be A Good Thing (TM). If that formatting had been followed, this
> patch, for example, would have a diffstat of +3 instead of the current
> +7-4.
> ---
>  docs/manual/contribute.txt | 11 +++++++----
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Applied to master, after rewrapping to our normal standards, as
discussed on IRC. I don't really like the proposed new formatting (but
I can get convinced), but mainly I didn't like the fact that it was
only applied to one part of the manual.

Thanks!

Thomas
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