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Commit 3d4de986 authored by Simon Glass's avatar Simon Glass
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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: default avatarScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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...@@ -52,12 +52,15 @@ will get a consistent result each time. ...@@ -52,12 +52,15 @@ will get a consistent result each time.
How to configure it How to configure it
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For most cases of using patman for U-Boot development, patman will For most cases of using patman for U-Boot development, patman can use the
locate and use the file 'doc/git-mailrc' in your U-Boot directory. file 'doc/git-mailrc' in your U-Boot directory to supply the email aliases
This contains most of the aliases you will need. 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 git config sendemail.aliasesfile doc/git-mailrc
to send patches pretty well.
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 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. user name and email address from the global .gitconfig file.
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