[U-Boot] [PATCH v4] Add 'patman' patch generation, checking and submission script

[Simon Glass]

Hi,

Hmmm patman found a tag in this commit and tried to send it to Fred
Bloggs. I have added the line below - sorry for the confusion.

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> What is this?
> =============
>
> This tool is a Python script which:
> - Creates patch directly from your branch
> - Cleans them up by removing unwanted tags
> - Inserts a cover letter with change lists
> - Runs the patches through checkpatch.pl and its own checks
> - Optionally emails them out to selected people
>
> It is intended to automate patch creation and make it a less
> error-prone process. It is useful for U-Boot and Linux work so far,
> since it uses the checkpatch.pl script.
>
> It is configured almost entirely by tags it finds in your commits.
> This means that you can work on a number of different branches at
> once, and keep the settings with each branch rather than having to
> git format-patch, git send-email, etc. with the correct parameters
> each time. So for example if you put:

Series-to: fred.blogs at napier.co.nz

>
> in one of your commits, the series will be sent there.
>
> See the README file for full details.
>

...

Regards,
Simon