From 21a19d70e2c2aa45cfe62c6adf8ceee9fcfbcacb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Doug Anderson Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 14:43:16 +0000 Subject: patman: Add a call to get_maintainer.pl if it exists For Linux the best way to figure out where to send a patch is with the "get_maintainer.pl" script. Add support for calling it from patman. Support is added unconditionally for "scripts/get_maintainer.pl" in case it is helpful for any other projects. Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson --- tools/patman/README | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'tools/patman/README') diff --git a/tools/patman/README b/tools/patman/README index 5b6eba0..16b51eb 100644 --- a/tools/patman/README +++ b/tools/patman/README @@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ Series-to: fred.blogs@napier.co.nz in one of your commits, the series will be sent there. +In Linux this will also call get_maintainer.pl on each of your +patches automatically. + How to use this tool ==================== @@ -65,8 +68,12 @@ will get a consistent result each time. 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. +For most cases of using patman for U-Boot developement 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 Linux 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. -- cgit v1.1