Documentation: Add information about patches from other git repos

This is more tribal knowledge that I don't think I've seen written down
anywhere else.  It's not a huge issue, but when looking through the git
log, it helps to be able to differentiate the information from the old
gerrit with the information from the new one.

Change-Id: I7993bda1e9aab79dc26940aaba9ddc52382ed0df
Signed-off-by: Martin Roth <martinroth@google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/12804
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
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@ -236,6 +236,20 @@ request. For major problems where the change doesnt work as intended or
breaks other platforms, the change really needs to go into the original
patch.
* When bringing in a patch from another git repo, update the original
git/gerrit tags by prepending the lines with 'Original-'. Marking
the original text this way makes it much easier to tell what changes
happened in which repository. This applies to these lines, not the actual
commit message itself:
Commit-Id:
Change-Id:
Signed-off-by:
Reviewed-on:
Tested-by:
Reviewed-by:
The script 'util/gitconfig/rebase.sh' can be used to help automate this.
Other tags such as 'Commit-Queue' can simply be removed.
Expectations contributors should have:
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