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| author | Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> | 2018-10-09 10:28:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com> | 2018-10-09 14:48:07 +0200 |
| commit | 507d56a6be67b7b4e5c40b55c2e56ffbb4ff0386 (patch) | |
| tree | fcce75c7e798a9ae8958f7f9e39b3c05e564395a /docs/manual/contribute.txt | |
| parent | 335b4ee2ce96220bcc3e047b033316c650c7d9d3 (diff) | |
docs/manual: document the new get-developers -e option
Explain how this can be used with git send-email, and how git can be
configured to use it automatically.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/manual/contribute.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/manual/contribute.txt | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manual/contribute.txt b/docs/manual/contribute.txt index b531ea987e..60bfb961f0 100644 --- a/docs/manual/contribute.txt +++ b/docs/manual/contribute.txt @@ -308,6 +308,28 @@ Use the output of +get-developers+ to send your patches: $ git send-email --to buildroot@buildroot.org --cc bob --cc alice outgoing/* --------------------- +Alternatively, +get-developers -e+ can be used directly with the ++--cc-cmd+ argument to +git send-email+ to automatically CC the +affected developers: + +--------------------- +$ git send-email --to buildroot@buildroot.org \ + --cc-cmd './utils/get-developers -e' origin/master +--------------------- + ++git+ can be configured to automatically do this out of the box with: + +--------------------- +$ git config sendemail.to buildroot@buildroot.org +$ git config sendemail.ccCmd "$(pwd)/utils/get-developers -e" +--------------------- + +And then just do: + +--------------------- +$ git send-email origin/master +--------------------- + Note that +git+ should be configured to use your mail account. To configure +git+, see +man git-send-email+ or google it. |