These days most people don't use git to send patches so I have added a section about that. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt b/Documentation/email-clients.txt index 4e30eba..9004a5fd 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. 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 `cat raw_email.txt | git am` +and then review the changelog with `git log -p`. When that works then +send the patch to list. + General Preferences ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Patches for the Linux kernel are submitted via email, preferably as -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
