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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Arnout Vandecappelle 2016-02-01 18:45:16 +01:00 committed by Thomas Petazzoni
parent 21af11cce0
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@ -182,10 +182,13 @@ _Please, do not attach patches to bugs, send them to the mailing list
instead_.
If you made some changes to Buildroot and you would like to contribute
them to the Buildroot project, proceed as follows. Starting from the
changes committed in your local git view, _rebase_ your development
branch on top of the upstream tree before generating a patch set. To do
so, run:
them to the Buildroot project, proceed as follows.
==== Preparing a patch series
Starting from the changes committed in your local git view, _rebase_
your development branch on top of the upstream tree before generating
a patch set. To do so, run:
---------------------
$ git fetch --all --tags