* [PATCH] Documented how to format description lines for packages patches
@ 2011-09-29 2:18 Michael Hope
2011-10-08 20:03 ` Yann E. MORIN
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From: Michael Hope @ 2011-09-29 2:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Yann E. MORIN; +Cc: crossgcc
# HG changeset patch
# User Michael Hope <michael.hope@linaro.org>
# Date 1317262608 -46800
# Node ID fa983e475cfb603465dcae5cdcd2de67a608ae59
# Parent 69e6e581338dc4558d87fdcde9d9cbf8466893c9
Documented how to format description lines for packages patches.
Added a note on enforcing Signed-off-by lines.
Signed-off-by: Michael Hope <michael.hope@linaro.org>
diff -r 69e6e581338d -r fa983e475cfb docs/7 - Contributing to crosstool-NG.txt
--- a/docs/7 - Contributing to crosstool-NG.txt Thu Sep 29 12:40:42 2011 +1300
+++ b/docs/7 - Contributing to crosstool-NG.txt Thu Sep 29 15:16:48 2011 +1300
@@ -21,6 +21,13 @@
If you want to enhance crosstool-NG, there's a to-do list in the TODO file.
+When updating a package, please include the category and package in the
+start of the description. For example:
+ binutils/binutils: add the 2.22 release
+
+or:
+ cc/gcc: update to the Linaro 2011.09 release
+
Patches should come with the appropriate SoB line. A SoB line is typically
something like:
Signed-off-by: John DOE <john.doe@somewhere.net>
@@ -28,6 +35,11 @@
The SoB line is clearly described in Documentation/SubmittingPatches , section
12, of your favourite Linux kernel source tree.
+Add the following to your ~/.hgrc to make Mercurial check for the SoB
+line when committing:
+ [hooks]
+ pretxncommit.signoff = hg log --template '{desc}\n' -r $HG_NODE \
+ | grep -qi '^signed-off-by:'
For larger or more frequent contributions, mercurial should be used.
There is a nice, complete and step-by-step tutorial in section 'C'.
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* Re: [PATCH] Documented how to format description lines for packages patches
2011-09-29 2:18 [PATCH] Documented how to format description lines for packages patches Michael Hope
@ 2011-10-08 20:03 ` Yann E. MORIN
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From: Yann E. MORIN @ 2011-10-08 20:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: crossgcc; +Cc: Michael Hope
Michael, All,
On Thursday 29 September 2011 04:18:09 Michael Hope wrote:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Michael Hope <michael.hope@linaro.org>
> # Date 1317262608 -46800
> # Node ID fa983e475cfb603465dcae5cdcd2de67a608ae59
> # Parent 69e6e581338dc4558d87fdcde9d9cbf8466893c9
> Documented how to format description lines for packages patches.
Applied as #e8d25b041de5 with a few additions. Thank you!
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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