From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933486AbaEMNck (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2014 09:32:40 -0400 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:45902 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753943AbaEMNcj (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2014 09:32:39 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 16:32:00 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter To: Randy Dunlap Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org Subject: [patch v3] Documentation/email-clients.txt: add a section about git Message-ID: <20140513133200.GA21702@mwanda> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org These days most people use git to send patches so I have added a section about that. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter --- v2: fix typo in commit message v3: update git am and log commands. Mention the man pages. diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt b/Documentation/email-clients.txt index 4e30eba..9293477 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 list. + General Preferences ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Patches for the Linux kernel are submitted via email, preferably as