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| author | Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de> | 2015-02-13 11:17:01 +0100 |
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| committer | Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de> | 2015-02-13 11:17:01 +0100 |
| commit | e72d344386bf80738fab7a6bd37cb321f443093a (patch) | |
| tree | d3e02055e6aa903ab80ef87c78d2f38e93981dcf /tools/patman/README | |
| parent | 258c98f8d36ef35d7cb7604847ba73e64d702c2a (diff) | |
| parent | bd2a4888b123713adec271d6c8040ca9f609aa2f (diff) | |
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diff --git a/tools/patman/README b/tools/patman/README index e466886..7d039e8 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. |