[oe] [2011.03-maintenance] Pull request for binutils

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 09:50:30AM +0200, Anders Darander wrote:
> * Mats K?rrman <Mats.Karrman at tritech.se> [111025 09:37]:
> > I'm sorry for the slow progress but I'm working 100% on something else
> > so this is overtime...
> 
> Unfortunately a too common situation...
> 
> > What is the correct practice; to fork the oe repository at GitHub or
> > to create a "username/maintenance" branch in the same repo?
> 
> Well, unless you already have a git account, with rw permission
> openembedded.org (and thus can push to e.g. openembedded), the easiest
> thing should be to use another hosting. I'm using github for my
> pull-requests to meta-oe and oe-core.
> 
> If you do that, just:
> 1) fork openembedded on github
> 2) add the remote to you local git-tree
> 3) push your local branch to github, using i.e. `git push github
> featureXXX`, assuming that you named the remote github.

Just don't forget that you want your personal tree be at the tip of 
2011.03-maintenance branch, not the master oe.dev (which would otherwise be 
similar to what you just sent). Then you can cherry-pick the needed commit, 
push it to github and generate a pull request.

-- 
Denys