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authorVicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>2015-09-07 13:27:30 +0100
committerPeter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>2015-09-07 23:52:35 +0200
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docs/manual: add the "mark as superseded" hint
Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com> Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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@@ -298,6 +298,14 @@ $ git format-patch --subject-prefix "PATCH v4" \
-M -s -o outgoing origin/master
---------------------
+When you provide a new version of a patch, please mark the old one as
+superseded in http://patchwork.buildroot.org[patchwork]. You need to
+create an account on http://patchwork.buildroot.org[patchwork] to be
+able to modify the status of your patches. Note that you can only change
+the status of patches you submitted yourself, which means the email
+address you register in http://patchwork.buildroot.org[patchwork] should
+match the one you use for sending patches to the mailing list.
+
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