On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 11:25:41AM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > Hi, > > Recently we started a maintainer book (merged into Jonathan's docs-next > branch). > > Would any current maintainers please be willing to explain how they go > about generating the automated emails one often receives when a patch > [set] is applied. > > This may also be related to tree/branch management for maintainers > kernel.org shows some people like to use multiple trees and some use > branches? > > If deemed relevant we could add a section to the new book (and I'd also > like to know how to do it for my own tree please so I can copy ;) > > I have CC'd Greg and Andrew because they seem to have a system in place > for this.
I "stole" Andrew's scripts for this a long time ago. I guess I can write up something "real" for the documentation so that others can see the shell mess that drives those emails :) > No rush on this, I know Christmas is soon. Yeah, this will have to wait until mid January at the earliest... thanks, greg k-h
