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| author | Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> | 2016-09-12 22:54:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> | 2016-09-21 09:06:08 +0200 |
| commit | 6017cb8fbd6ea24911fe156c37366ca67278f77f (patch) | |
| tree | 57713db189b297ed351fcc094f0ac1d1fb66a77f /docs | |
| parent | fe29fa86fa9424788c16cbeadd751191ed59e8a3 (diff) | |
docs/manual: update contribute.txt to cover get-developers
This commit updates the contribute.txt part of the manual to tell
people to use get-developers to get the appropriate "git send-email"
command when sending patches.
[Peter: use --cc instead of --to as suggested by Yann/Arnout]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/manual/contribute.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manual/contribute.txt b/docs/manual/contribute.txt index 1b1f4de19..d4ec2e118 100644 --- a/docs/manual/contribute.txt +++ b/docs/manual/contribute.txt @@ -283,10 +283,18 @@ automatically adding the +Signed-off-by+ line. Once patch files are generated, you can review/edit the commit message before submitting them, using your favorite text editor. -Lastly, send/submit your patch set to the Buildroot mailing list: +Buildroot provides a handy tool to know to whom your patches should be +sent, called +get-developers+. This tool reads your patches and +outputs the appropriate +git send-email+ command to use: --------------------- -$ git send-email --to buildroot@buildroot.org outgoing/* +$ ./support/scripts/get-developers outgoing/* +--------------------- + +Use the output of +get-developers+ to send your patches: + +--------------------- +$ git send-email --to buildroot@buildroot.org --cc bob --cc alice outgoing/* --------------------- Note that +git+ should be configured to use your mail account. |