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manual: contributing: minor rewording of 'submitting patches' section

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This patch makes some minor changes to the section about submitting patches.
Content-wise there are little changes.

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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Thomas De Schampheleire 2014-03-06 11:07:32 +01:00 committed by Thomas Petazzoni
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@ -164,16 +164,18 @@ Submitting patches
_Please, do not attach patches to bugs, send them to the mailing list
instead_.
When your changes are done, and committed in your local git view,
_rebase_ your development branch on top of the upstream tree before
generating the patch set. To do so, run:
If you made some changes to Buildroot and you would like to contribute
them to the Buildroot project, proceed as follows. Starting from the
changes committed in your local git view, _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
---------------------
Here, you are ready to generate then submit your patch set.
Now, you are ready to generate then submit your patch set.
To generate it, run:
@ -185,7 +187,7 @@ This will generate patch files in the +outgoing+ subdirectory,
automatically adding the +Signed-off-by+ line.
Once patch files are generated, you can review/edit the commit message
before submitting them using your favorite text editor.
before submitting them, using your favorite text editor.
Lastly, send/submit your patch set to the Buildroot mailing list:
@ -196,9 +198,9 @@ $ git send-email --to buildroot@buildroot.org outgoing/*
Note that +git+ should be configured to use your mail account.
To configure +git+, see +man git-send-email+ or google it.
Make sure posted *patches are not line-wrapped*, otherwise they cannot
easily be applied. In such a case, fix your e-mail client, or better,
use +git send-email+ to send your patches.
If you do not use +git send-email+, make sure posted *patches are not
line-wrapped*, otherwise they cannot easily be applied. In such a case,
fix your e-mail client, or better yet, learn to use +git send-email+.
Cover letter
~~~~~~~~~~~~
@ -244,7 +246,7 @@ Hereafter the recommended layout:
---------------
Patch title less than 80-character length
Some more paragraph giving some more details.
A paragraph giving more details.
And yet another paragraph giving more details.