[OE-core] Get patch of all manual changes done in sources.

[Burton, Ross]

On 21 August 2015 at 17:04, Kucharczyk, Bartlomiej (Nokia - PL/Wroclaw) <
bartlomiej.kucharczyk at nokia.com> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Is there any automated way to get diff of all manual changes done in
> recipe sources?
>
> Use case is:
> 1. bitbake something -c devshell
> 2. # manually modify sources #
> 3. bitbake image
> 4. bitbake something2 -c devshell
> 5. # manually modify sources #
> 6. bitbake image
> ...
> n. bitbake image
>
> And now I would like to automatically generate patch from changes in step
> #2, #5, and next. Is there any way in oe core to achieve such thing?
>
> And if needs to be implemented, do you have any suggestions how to start?
> (e.g. doing another task, create a bbclass, or? )


For this sort of iterative development in a source tree it's best to use
devtool instead of the devshell task.  There's a section on devtool in the
documentation.
Ross
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