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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/manual/contribute.txt | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/manual/developers.txt | 3 |
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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. diff --git a/docs/manual/developers.txt b/docs/manual/developers.txt index a0a3668dbc..0da499e100 100644 --- a/docs/manual/developers.txt +++ b/docs/manual/developers.txt @@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ the +DEVELOPERS+ file for various tasks: - When passing one or several patches as command line argument, +get-developer+ will return the appropriate +git send-email+ - command. + command. If the +-e+ option is passed, only the email addresses are + printed in a format suitable for +git send-email --cc-cmd+. - When using the +-a <arch>+ command line option, +get-developer+ will return the list of developers in charge of the given architecture. |
