On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 04:04:04PM +0200, Ramagudi Naziir wrote: > On 12/27/06, Erik Mouw <mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Should I make my git available for kernel janitor maintainer to pull > >from? > > > >You could do both but patches always need to go through the appropriate > >mailinglist/maintainer by mail (unless your name is "Linus Torvalds"). > > > > what does the 'commit' command in git there for ? It commits to your local repository. Git doesn't send mail on commit, though you can let it send patches. > aren't the patches should be *mailed* to lkml ? Sure, but quite often you see patches + git archive on lkml. The patches are there so people can comment on them, the git archive is there so Linus has full history when he pulls it. Erik -- They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
