docs/manual/contribute.txt: add section for preparing patch series
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@mind.be> Reviewed-by: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com> [Thomas: rewrap to our normal formatting practice.] Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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If you made some changes to Buildroot and you would like to contribute
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them to the Buildroot project, proceed as follows. Starting from the
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changes committed in your local git view, _rebase_ your development
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branch on top of the upstream tree before generating a patch set. To do
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so, run:
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them to the Buildroot project, proceed as follows.
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==== Preparing a patch series
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Starting from the changes committed in your local git view, _rebase_
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your development branch on top of the upstream tree before generating
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a patch set. To do so, run:
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$ git fetch --all --tags
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