[LEDE-DEV] [RFC 2/5] toolchain: gcc: Keep testsuite folder to simplify generation of patches

[Felix Fietkau]

On 2017-02-10 20:38, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> Since we're going to put a bunch of patches for ARC generated with
> "git format-patch" missing "testsuite" folder will cause failures on
> application of those patches.
> 
> With "testsuite" in place all our patches are applied flawlessly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com>
I would prefer to leave 'testsuite' out, since it uses quite a bit of
space and we want to make it easier for buildbot to build stuff in a
ramdisk.

You could try generating patches using:
git format-patch <range>  -- . ':!gcc/testsuite'

- Felix