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| author |   Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> | 2012-08-24 15:05:51 -0700 |
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| committer |   Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-09-04 12:55:00 +0100 |
| commit | 2595a2b65e843d9d7786143b1fdd16b076ed4e91 (patch) | |
| tree | a69478cf9654fbd0a07e30e6923a3b11a556e5c8 /documentation | |
| parent | 6b357655fe52604404a5f1cbc0ded743cb124cfd (diff) | |
| download | openembedded-core-contrib-2595a2b65e843d9d7786143b1fdd16b076ed4e91.tar.gz | |
documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml: Updates to submitting patches
I added text to indicate that using the two scripts for generating
patches and requesting pulls is the preferred method to send
a patch.
(From yocto-docs rev: d6f036a91074dd00c51fe0f937224182fc801b3b)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml index 8b58bb675e..8ab6ecf662 100644 --- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml @@ -1005,7 +1005,8 @@ </para> <para> - Following are general instructions for both pushing changes upstream and for submitting changes as patches. + Following are general instructions for both pushing changes upstream and for submitting + changes as patches. </para> <section id='pushing-a-change-upstream'> @@ -1029,6 +1030,11 @@ <filename>send-pull-request</filename>. You can find these scripts in the <filename>scripts</filename> directory of the Yocto Project file structure.</para> + <para>Using these scripts correctly formats the requests without introducing any + whitespace or HTML formatting. + The maintainer that receives your patches needs to be able to save and apply them + directly from your emails. + Using these scripts is the preferred method for sending patches.</para> <para>For help on using these scripts, simply provide the <filename>-h</filename> argument as follows: <literallayout class='monospaced'> |