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| author | Dan Carpenter | 2014-06-27 18:28:46 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2014-06-29 13:38:33 -0700 |
| commit | 7d19e91b5220227814e9e875460c2c22c9660a5c (patch) | |
| tree | b591ca2c074cca731336e490721b8223d9196836 /Documentation | |
| parent | 24b414d5a7d3e6a716350464dfdb44da610ed142 (diff) | |
Documentation: add section about git to email-clients.txt
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>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/email-clients.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt b/Documentation/email-clients.txt index 4e30ebaa9e5b..9af538be3751 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 the appropriate mailing list(s). + General Preferences ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Patches for the Linux kernel are submitted via email, preferably as |