[U-Boot] [PATCH] patman: Explain how to make doc/git-mailrc work

[Simon Glass]

On 3 October 2014 20:40, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> Add an explanation for how to set up git so that patman can find the alias
> file. Fix up the get_maintainers message too.
>
> Reported-by: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> ---
>
>  tools/patman/README | 13 ++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/patman/README b/tools/patman/README
> index e466886..7d039e8 100644
> --- a/tools/patman/README
> +++ b/tools/patman/README
> @@ -52,12 +52,15 @@ will get a consistent result each time.
>  How to configure it
>  ===================
>
> -For most cases of using patman for U-Boot development, patman will
> -locate and use the file 'doc/git-mailrc' in your U-Boot directory.
> -This contains most of the aliases you will need.
> +For most cases of using patman for U-Boot development, patman can use the
> +file 'doc/git-mailrc' in your U-Boot directory to supply the email aliases
> +you need. To make this work, tell git where to find the file by typing
> +this once:
>
> -For Linux the 'scripts/get_maintainer.pl' handles figuring out where
> -to send patches pretty well.
> +    git config sendemail.aliasesfile doc/git-mailrc
> +
> +For both Linux and U-Boot the 'scripts/get_maintainer.pl' handles figuring
> +out where to send patches pretty well.
>
>  During the first run patman creates a config file for you by taking the default
>  user name and email address from the global .gitconfig file.
> --
> 2.1.0.rc2.206.gedb03e5
>

Applied to u-boot-x86/patman