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