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: Scott Wood scottwood@freescale.com Signed-off-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org ---
tools/patman/README | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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.