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| author | Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> | 2014-05-16 15:59:29 +1000 |
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| committer | Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> | 2014-05-16 15:59:29 +1000 |
| commit | 0856ad1ef175c45dc6a0bc629ca355fdfbb1001e (patch) | |
| tree | 944ae7e5dd9775eb563d71209af9fcf47b2cf7da | |
| parent | a3d62f7a04103ab803e9ca0e48b1c985b8064648 (diff) | |
| parent | 8b1cbef71a7e83afa78455451d59d96d4228e6a9 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'rd-docs/master'
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/email-clients.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | MAINTAINERS | 2 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt b/Documentation/email-clients.txt index e9f5daccbd02..e99f2d8d9730 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 diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index fa29f488039a..7dd1ad4df316 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -2885,7 +2885,7 @@ M: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> L: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org T: quilt http://www.infradead.org/~rdunlap/Doc/patches/ S: Maintained -F: Documentation/ +F: Documentation/ (but not: ABI, devicetree, translations) DOUBLETALK DRIVER M: "James R. Van Zandt" <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com> |