[PATCH 1/2] Documentation: add section about git to email-clients.txt

2014-06-27 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Dan Carpenter 

These days most people use git to send patches so I have added a section
about that.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter 
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
---
v2: fix typo in commit message
v3: update git am and log commands.  Mention the man pages.
v4: s/list/appropriate mailing list(s)/

---
 Documentation/email-clients.txt |   11 +++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

--- lnx-315-rc5.orig/Documentation/email-clients.txt
+++ lnx-315-rc5/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
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[PATCH 1/2] Documentation: add section about git to email-clients.txt

2014-06-27 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Dan Carpenter dan.carpen...@oracle.com

These days most people use git to send patches so I have added a section
about that.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter dan.carpen...@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap rdun...@infradead.org
---
v2: fix typo in commit message
v3: update git am and log commands.  Mention the man pages.
v4: s/list/appropriate mailing list(s)/

---
 Documentation/email-clients.txt |   11 +++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

--- lnx-315-rc5.orig/Documentation/email-clients.txt
+++ lnx-315-rc5/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
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