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[08/15,v2] docs/manual: document git backend handling of export-subst attribute

Message ID 923548069376f566a08b1f5853aafae3596e2797.1714243078.git.yann.morin.1998@free.fr
State Changes Requested
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Series support/download: extend download features and reproducibility (branch yem/git-attributes) | expand

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Yann E. MORIN April 27, 2024, 6:37 p.m. UTC
Add the changes about export-subst in the git backend, to the migrating
section of the manual.

Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
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 docs/manual/migrating.adoc | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/docs/manual/migrating.adoc b/docs/manual/migrating.adoc
index c0f89cbf07..ed9b61257a 100644
--- a/docs/manual/migrating.adoc
+++ b/docs/manual/migrating.adoc
@@ -123,3 +123,11 @@  LIBFOO_PRE_PATCH_HOOKS += LIBFOO_ARCH_PATCHES
 
 Note that no package in Buildroot has architecture-specific patches, and
 that such patches will most probably not be accepted.
+
+[[migrating-git-attributes]]
+=== Migrating to 2024.05
+
+The git download backend now properly expands the `export-subst`
+https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes[git attribute] when generating
+archives; the archive version suffix has been updated, to +-br2+, so the
+hash files must be updated accordingly.