From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757749AbaEKAUE (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 May 2014 20:20:04 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:55200 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756273AbaEKAUC (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 May 2014 20:20:02 -0400 Message-ID: <536EC22E.2020802@infradead.org> Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 17:19:58 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Carpenter CC: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Laura Abbott Subject: Re: [patch v2] Documentation/email-clients.txt: add a section about git References: <20140508084412.GA20398@mwanda> In-Reply-To: <20140508084412.GA20398@mwanda> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/08/2014 01:44 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 > --- > 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. > + Why is there nothing here about how to use 'git send-email' to send 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 -- ~Randy