From 7d19e91b5220227814e9e875460c2c22c9660a5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 18:28:46 -0700 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/email-clients.txt | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3