[U-Boot-Users] Submitting patches

[Timur Tabi]

Grant Likely wrote:

> hehehe, that's a lot of work for a simple thing.  Drop the git-commit
> -m flag and use -F instead to add the commit log from a file (or use
> neither and git-commit will bring up an editor). 

I haven't tried it, but according to the online help, -F sets the commit
*message*, which is the one-line text that becomes the subject line. 
git-commit.txt contains the block of text that appears above the "diff" line.

 > You can also use -s
> to add your signoff line too.  

I do use -s:

PATCHFILE=`git-format-patch -s $IGNOREEOL HEAD^ `

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Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale