On Saturday 12 March 2016 08:34:35 Sven Eckelmann wrote: > On Saturday 12 March 2016 12:42:36 Antonio Quartulli wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 12:37:17AM +0100, Sven Eckelmann wrote: > > > [1] > > > https://git.open-mesh.org/batman-adv.git/commit/fb7b5eb8c81969dc8bea356d > > > 0 > > > a3f0b5e72d2da49 > > > > Sven, what is the README there for ? > > It serves different purposes. It makes sure that the directory is created by > git on checkout even when there is no patch in the directory. It also makes > sure that the Makefile dependency glob for compat-patches/* is at least > generating one dependency. > > But it should also be used to define the rules under which a patch in this > directory is acceptable (of course, the rules are not yet defined - so I've > just used a placeholder for this draft). The requirements for such a patch > should be really high because patches tend to fail when the code or the > surrounding code is changed. This is also the reason why I've combined the > critical code to really small functions which avoids more patch chunks for > more places in the code.
And maybe it should also describe how to generate patches for this directory
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Kind regards,
Sven
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