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authorChris Packham <[email protected]>2017-09-01 20:57:53 +1200
committerSimon Glass <[email protected]>2017-09-11 21:43:58 -0600
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patman: add support for omitting bouncing addresses
Add support for reading a list of bouncing addresses from a in-tree file (doc/bounces) and from the ~/.patman config file. These addresses are stripped from the Cc list. Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Philipp Tomsich <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
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@@ -84,6 +84,18 @@ Aliases are recursive.
The checkpatch.pl in the U-Boot tools/ subdirectory will be located and
used. Failing that you can put it into your path or ~/bin/checkpatch.pl
+If you want to avoid sending patches to email addresses that are picked up
+by patman but are known to bounce you can add a [bounces] section to your
+.patman file. Unlike the [alias] section these are simple key: value pairs
+that are not recursive.
+
+>>>
+
+[bounces]
+gonefishing: Fred Bloggs <[email protected]>
+
+<<<
+
If you want to change the defaults for patman's command-line arguments,
you can add a [settings] section to your .patman file. This can be used