On 05/15/2014 02:33 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@xxxxxxxxxx> Applied. Thanks. > --- > v2: fix typo in commit message > v3: update git am and log commands. Mention the man pages. > v4: s/list/appropriate mailing list(s)/ > > 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 the appropriate mailing list(s). > + > General Preferences > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Patches for the Linux kernel are submitted via email, preferably as > _______________________________________________ -- ~Randy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
