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Add a hint to the development basics, about the consequences of calling 'make update' and why it has to be called explicitly.
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Sven Roederer 2021-05-06 23:12:23 +02:00 committed by Sven Roederer
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`make update` also applies the patches that can be found in the directories found in
`patches`; the resulting branch will be called `patched`, while the commit specified in `modules`
can be referred to by the branch `base`.
To separately call `make update` was choosen, to let you decide when to update and reset the external
repos. This will prevent potential loss of commits during local development and allow building Gluon
without the need of having an internet connection (for sure the the 3rd-party sources must have been
downloaded already).
After new patches have been committed on top of the `patched` branch (or existing commits
since the base commit have been edited or removed), the patch directories can be regenerated