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authorScott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>2016-09-16 08:53:47 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2016-09-23 15:27:34 +0100
commit0c823cce36536688eae27e2080626f7ad997813d (patch)
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parent7d208c1c77dbf079b66a28076174a08951b27549 (diff)
downloadopenembedded-core-contrib-0c823cce36536688eae27e2080626f7ad997813d.tar.gz
sdk-manual: Updates to the devtool Finish command flow.
(From yocto-docs rev: f980b7cfa021c3777acd8e26b00cf40ed58f10f4) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--documentation/sdk-manual/sdk-extensible.xml17
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/sdk-manual/sdk-extensible.xml b/documentation/sdk-manual/sdk-extensible.xml
index 8f64745d52..bb51683a44 100644
--- a/documentation/sdk-manual/sdk-extensible.xml
+++ b/documentation/sdk-manual/sdk-extensible.xml
@@ -352,10 +352,7 @@
built normally rather than from the workspace.
<literallayout class='monospaced'>
$ devtool finish <replaceable>recipe layer</replaceable>
- </literallayout></para>
-
- <para>Part of the <filename>devtool finish</filename>
- command converts commits created using Git to patch files.
+ </literallayout>
<note>
Any changes you want to turn into patches must be
committed to the Git repository in the source tree.
@@ -571,14 +568,14 @@
<emphasis>Finish Your Work With the Recipe</emphasis>:
The <filename>devtool finish</filename> command creates
any patches corresponding to commits in the local
- Git repository and then resets the recipe so that the
- recipe is built normally rather than from the workspace.
+ Git repository, updates the recipe to point to them
+ (or creates a <filename>.bbappend</filename> file to do
+ so, depending on the specified destination layer), and
+ then resets the recipe so that the recipe is built normally
+ rather than from the workspace.
<literallayout class='monospaced'>
$ devtool finish <replaceable>recipe layer</replaceable>
- </literallayout></para>
-
- <para>Part of the <filename>devtool finish</filename>
- command converts commits created using Git to patch files.
+ </literallayout>
<note>
Any changes you want to turn into patches must be
committed to the Git repository in the source tree.