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 <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Dan Carpenter 2014-06-27 18:28:46 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 24b414d5a7
commit 7d19e91b52

View File

@ -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