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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 diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 54cf8e9647b6..24cb6fff8b6a 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -2934,6 +2934,9 @@ L: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org T: quilt http://www.infradead.org/~rdunlap/Doc/patches/ S: Maintained F: Documentation/ +X: Documentation/ABI/ +X: Documentation/devicetree/ +X: Documentation/[a-z][a-z]_[A-Z][A-Z]/ DOUBLETALK DRIVER M: "James R. Van Zandt" <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com> |