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

[Paul Eggleton]

On Friday 21 August 2015 18:02:47 Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 21 August 2015 at 17:04, Kucharczyk, Bartlomiej (Nokia - PL/Wroclaw) <
> bartlomiej.kucharczyk at nokia.com> wrote:
> > 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.

More specifically:

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#using-devtool-in-your-workflow

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre