From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
Subject: [patch v2] Documentation/email-clients.txt: add a section about git
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 11:44:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140508084412.GA20398@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <536A5A1E.6070004@codeaurora.org>
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>
---
v2: Fixed changelog
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
_______________________________________________
devel mailing list
devel@linuxdriverproject.org
http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-08 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-07 11:17 [patch] Documentation/email-clients.txt: add a section about git Dan Carpenter
2014-05-07 16:06 ` Laura Abbott
2014-05-07 16:18 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-05-08 8:44 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2014-05-08 9:05 ` [patch v2] " Julian Andres Klode
2014-05-08 9:28 ` Hillf Danton
2014-05-09 7:28 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-05-09 0:24 ` Namhyung Kim
2014-05-09 7:26 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-05-11 0:19 ` Randy Dunlap
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