Documentation: Add information about patches from other git repos

This is more tribal knowledge that I don't think I've seen written down
anywhere else.  It's not a huge issue, but when looking through the git
log, it helps to be able to differentiate the information from the old
gerrit with the information from the new one.

Change-Id: I7993bda1e9aab79dc26940aaba9ddc52382ed0df
Signed-off-by: Martin Roth <martinroth@google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/12804
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
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Martin Roth
2015-12-26 13:33:09 -07:00
parent 272a1f05b9
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@ -236,6 +236,20 @@ request. For major problems where the change doesnt work as intended or
breaks other platforms, the change really needs to go into the original breaks other platforms, the change really needs to go into the original
patch. patch.
* When bringing in a patch from another git repo, update the original
git/gerrit tags by prepending the lines with 'Original-'. Marking
the original text this way makes it much easier to tell what changes
happened in which repository. This applies to these lines, not the actual
commit message itself:
Commit-Id:
Change-Id:
Signed-off-by:
Reviewed-on:
Tested-by:
Reviewed-by:
The script 'util/gitconfig/rebase.sh' can be used to help automate this.
Other tags such as 'Commit-Queue' can simply be removed.
Expectations contributors should have: Expectations contributors should have:
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