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| author | Vikram Narayanan <vikram186@gmail.com> | 2012-05-23 09:01:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> | 2012-06-19 22:51:55 +0200 |
| commit | 87d65558efe50bb2cc3617bafd8399695212c0e5 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b21809e60f6408fd84c0eda3029a841176a39ce /tools/patman/README | |
| parent | 2b36c75d7b930a860ec17f2af3321faa5811593b (diff) | |
patman: Handle creation of patman config file
patman shouts when it couldn't find a $(HOME)/.patman file.
Handle it in a sane way by creating a new one for the user.
It looks for a user.name and user.email in the global .gitconfig
file, waits for the user input if it can't find there. Update the
same in the README
Signed-off-by: Vikram Narayanan <vikram186@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Cc: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/patman/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/patman/README | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/patman/README b/tools/patman/README index 1af86654db..86ede78d35 100644 --- a/tools/patman/README +++ b/tools/patman/README @@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ How to configure it For most cases patman will locate and use the file 'doc/git-mailrc' in your U-Boot directory. This contains most of the aliases you will need. +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. + To add your own, create a file ~/.patman like this: >>>> |