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authorVikram Narayanan <vikram186@gmail.com>2012-05-23 09:01:06 +0000
committerWolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>2012-06-19 22:51:55 +0200
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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>
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@@ -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:
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