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| author | Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> | 2014-10-03 20:40:36 -0600 |
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| committer | Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> | 2015-01-30 15:55:30 -0700 |
| commit | 3d4de98696d2d906c968008219bb9a65960e7c10 (patch) | |
| tree | 8702ede4823f3accd49a46b48bdcb61add827ce1 /tools/patman/README | |
| parent | 9b250ac400603fae55193412107fe3b1d746fa2f (diff) | |
patman: Explain how to make doc/git-mailrc work
Add an explanation for how to set up git so that patman can find the alias
file. Fix up the get_maintainers message too.
Reported-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/patman/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/patman/README | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/tools/patman/README b/tools/patman/README index e466886ed2..7d039e82bc 100644 --- a/tools/patman/README +++ b/tools/patman/README @@ -52,12 +52,15 @@ will get a consistent result each time. How to configure it =================== -For most cases of using patman for U-Boot development, patman will -locate and use the file 'doc/git-mailrc' in your U-Boot directory. -This contains most of the aliases you will need. +For most cases of using patman for U-Boot development, patman can use the +file 'doc/git-mailrc' in your U-Boot directory to supply the email aliases +you need. To make this work, tell git where to find the file by typing +this once: -For Linux the 'scripts/get_maintainer.pl' handles figuring out where -to send patches pretty well. + git config sendemail.aliasesfile doc/git-mailrc + +For both Linux and U-Boot the 'scripts/get_maintainer.pl' handles figuring +out where to send patches pretty well. During the first run patman creates a config file for you by taking the default user name and email address from the global .gitconfig file. |