Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 27 Jun 2014 18:28:46 -0700 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: add section about git to email-clients.txt |
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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
These days most people use git to send patches so I have added a section about that.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> --- v2: fix typo in commit message v3: update git am and log commands. Mention the man pages. v4: s/list/appropriate mailing list(s)/
--- Documentation/email-clients.txt | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
--- lnx-315-rc5.orig/Documentation/email-clients.txt +++ lnx-315-rc5/Documentation/email-clients.txt @@ -1,6 +1,17 @@ Email clients info for Linux ====================================================================== +Git +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +These days most developers use `git send-email` instead of regular +email clients. The man page for this is quite good. On the receiving +end, maintainers use `git am` to apply the patches. + +If you are new to git then send your first patch to yourself. Save it +as raw text including all the headers. Run `git am raw_email.txt` and +then review the changelog with `git log`. When that works then send +the patch to the appropriate mailing list(s). + General Preferences ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Patches for the Linux kernel are submitted via email, preferably as
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