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Documentation: add section about git to email-clients.txt

These days most people use git to send patches so I have added a section
about that.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Dan Carpenter 11 年之前
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 Email clients info for Linux
 ======================================================================
 
+Git
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+These days most developers use `git send-email` instead of regular
+email clients.  The man page for this is quite good.  On the receiving
+end, maintainers use `git am` to apply the patches.
+
+If you are new to git then send your first patch to yourself.  Save it
+as raw text including all the headers.  Run `git am raw_email.txt` and
+then review the changelog with `git log`.  When that works then send
+the patch to the appropriate mailing list(s).
+
 General Preferences
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Patches for the Linux kernel are submitted via email, preferably as