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Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 16:32:00 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> Cc: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org Subject: [patch v3] Documentation/email-clients.txt: add a section about git These days most people use git to send patches so I have added a section about that. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> --- v2: fix typo in commit message v3: update git am and log commands. Mention the man pages. diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt b/Documentation/email-clients.txt index 4e30eba..9293477 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. 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 list. + General Preferences ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Patches for the Linux kernel are submitted via email, preferably as -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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