Re: [yocto] Best practice: Howto update/modify a patch?

Alexander Kanavin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.yoctoproject.lists.yocto
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On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 at 11:37, H. Wulff via lists.yoctoproject.org
<[email protected]> wrote:
> From time to time I get in the situation to update/modify an existing patch. When I use devtool, the old patches will be applied, and results in an additional patch. The newly created patch modifies the same code area(s) as the old patch(es). OK.
>
> So, I wonder whether there exists best practice to update/modify an existing patch?

You need to run 'git rebase -i' to rearrange/squash patches as needed
inside the component's source tree in devtool's workspace. Then
'devtool finish' will figure out what needs to be
replaced/modified/removed/added in the layer.

Alex
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