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Email clients info for Linux
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+Git
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+These days most developers use `git send-email` instead of regular
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+email clients. The man page for this is quite good. On the receiving
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+end, maintainers use `git am` to apply the patches.
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+If you are new to git then send your first patch to yourself. Save it
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+as raw text including all the headers. Run `git am raw_email.txt` and
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+then review the changelog with `git log`. When that works then send
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+the patch to the appropriate mailing list(s).
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General Preferences
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Patches for the Linux kernel are submitted via email, preferably as
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