From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> These days most people use git to send patches so I have added a section about that. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- 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 -- 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
