From 3d4de98696d2d906c968008219bb9a65960e7c10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 20:40:36 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] patman: Explain how to make doc/git-mailrc work

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@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
---
 tools/patman/README | 13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/patman/README b/tools/patman/README
index e466886ed2..7d039e82bc 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.
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