summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/documentation
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2012-08-24 15:05:51 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2012-09-04 12:55:00 +0100
commit2595a2b65e843d9d7786143b1fdd16b076ed4e91 (patch)
treea69478cf9654fbd0a07e30e6923a3b11a556e5c8 /documentation
parent6b357655fe52604404a5f1cbc0ded743cb124cfd (diff)
downloadpoky-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.xml8
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 @@
1005 </para> 1005 </para>
1006 1006
1007 <para> 1007 <para>
1008 Following are general instructions for both pushing changes upstream and for submitting changes as patches. 1008 Following are general instructions for both pushing changes upstream and for submitting
1009 changes as patches.
1009 </para> 1010 </para>
1010 1011
1011 <section id='pushing-a-change-upstream'> 1012 <section id='pushing-a-change-upstream'>
@@ -1029,6 +1030,11 @@
1029 <filename>send-pull-request</filename>. 1030 <filename>send-pull-request</filename>.
1030 You can find these scripts in the <filename>scripts</filename> directory of the 1031 You can find these scripts in the <filename>scripts</filename> directory of the
1031 Yocto Project file structure.</para> 1032 Yocto Project file structure.</para>
1033 <para>Using these scripts correctly formats the requests without introducing any
1034 whitespace or HTML formatting.
1035 The maintainer that receives your patches needs to be able to save and apply them
1036 directly from your emails.
1037 Using these scripts is the preferred method for sending patches.</para>
1032 <para>For help on using these scripts, simply provide the 1038 <para>For help on using these scripts, simply provide the
1033 <filename>-h</filename> argument as follows: 1039 <filename>-h</filename> argument as follows:
1034 <literallayout class='monospaced'> 1040 <literallayout class='monospaced'>