Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 May 2014 14:12:49 -0700 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: [patch v3] Documentation/email-clients.txt: add a section about git |
| |
On 05/13/2014 06:32 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote: > 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> > --- > v2: fix typo in commit message > v3: update git am and log commands. Mention the man pages. > > diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt b/Documentation/email-clients.txt > index 4e30eba..9293477 100644 > --- a/Documentation/email-clients.txt > +++ b/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 list.
how about: to the appropriate mailing list(s). or to the mailing list(s). ?
I'm not real crazy about this coming before Everything Else in this text file, but that's what you intended, right?
> + > General Preferences > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Patches for the Linux kernel are submitted via email, preferably as >
-- ~Randy
| |