Re: [patch v2] Documentation/email-clients.txt: add a section about git

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>]

Hi Dan,

On Thu, 8 May 2014 11:44:12 +0300, 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@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

Also the -p option is not needed for just checking the changelog IMHO.
If one needs to check the patch itself too, I think `git show` is
slightly better since it only shows the single commit applied.

Thanks,
Namhyung