From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: using git to send patches
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 10:12:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5399DF8B.5050409@infradead.org> (raw)
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
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>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
---
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
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