Re: [Balloon] Using quilt with balloon

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Author: Wookey
Date:  
To: Lennert Buytenhek
CC: Balloon
Subject: Re: [Balloon] Using quilt with balloon
On 2007-05-31 20:26 +0200, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 03:25:29PM +0100, Wookey wrote:
>
> > HOWTO use quilt (for balloon development)
> >
> > As of today the official balloon kernel sources are in
> > balloonboard.org svn in the form of patches.
>
> Yay. I converted a couple of older balloon kernel patches to quilt
> series by hand some time ago because I found it much easier to deal
> with them in that way.
>
> One thing I'd like you to consider (haven't looked at the patches
> yet, so I'm not sure whether you've done this or not) is to not just
> commit random patches into your tree, but to keep detailed logs of
> why a certain patch was committed into the tree and why.


Where do you recommend keeping the notes? In a log file/README in svn
in the patch dir or using the comment-in-series-file mechanism?

Wookey
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