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documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml: Edits to append files 

Edits to better describe what a .bbappend file is.

(From yocto-docs rev: 81527358615c229a9161568a30785221c9f081ff)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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<title>Using .bbappend Files</title> <title>Using .bbappend Files</title>
<para> <para>
Recipe append files (<filename>.bbappend</filename> type) allow your layer to make additions or Recipes used to append metadata to other recipes are called BitBake append files.
changes to the content of another layer's recipe without having to copy the other recipe into BitBake append files use the <filename>.bbappend</filename> file type suffix, while
your layer. underlying recipes to which metadata is being appended use the
Your <filename>.bbappend</filename> file resides in your layer, while the underlying recipe <filename>.bb</filename> file type suffix.
to which you are appending resides in a different layer. </para>
<para>
A <filename>.bbappend</filename> file allows your layer to make additions or
changes to the content of another layer's recipe without having to copy the other
recipe into your layer.
Your <filename>.bbappend</filename> file resides in your layer, while the underlying
<filename>.bb</filename> recipe file to which you are appending metadata
resides in a different layer.
</para> </para>
<para> <para>