From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?B?SnVsaWVuIELDqXJhdWQ=?= Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:50:34 +0000 Subject: [Buildroot] [git commit branch/2019.02.x] qt5base: Add patch to fix compile issue with gcc9 In-Reply-To: <20190919214812.6f719f06@windsurf> References: <20190919073529.30254-1-julien.beraud@orolia.com> <87ef0c1f4j.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> <24a3771b-2bf4-66a7-2b84-13eeb87488c3@orolia.com> <20190919214812.6f719f06@windsurf> Message-ID: <8d2d7eed-81d2-e2bf-4345-cac3f73ad01c@orolia.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 19/09/2019 21:48, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > That's not what Peter is talking about. He is talking about the prefix > of your patch. Normally, patches are like this: > > [PATCH] package/qt5base: something > > or: > > [PATCH 2019.02.x] package/qt5base: something > > But you sent it as: > > [git commit branch/2019.02.x] ... > > If you look at the mailing list traffic, e-mails prefixed with [PATCH] > are actual patches submitted by contributors, while e-mails prefixed > with [git commit] are auto-generated e-mails that get sent when the > Buildroot maintainers merge some patches and push them as commits to > the official Git repo. > > Hence, your patch was quite confusing, because its title prefix looked > like a Git commit notification. Thanks for the explanation. So the correct way to send a patch for a specific branch is : [PATCH branch-name] ... ? Regards, Julien