patman: Add Series-process-log tag to sort/uniq change logs

[karo-tx-uboot.git] / tools / patman / README

diff --git a/tools/patman/README b/tools/patman/README
index d4e7f36c3e9cb9b57f036722caa04c652e55e785..8cffcd1f3d53ae010928000a4b1e29d81452ccf3 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/patman/README
+++ b/tools/patman/README
@@ -225,9 +225,16 @@ Series-changes: n
        to update the log there and then, knowing that the script will
        do the rest.
 
-Cc: Their Name <email>
+ Cc: Their Name <email>
        This copies a single patch to another email address.
 
+Series-process-log: sort, uniq
+       This tells patman to sort and/or uniq the change logs. It is
+       assumed that each change log entry is only a single line long.
+       Use 'sort' to sort the entries, and 'uniq' to include only
+       unique entries. If omitted, no change log processing is done.
+       Separate each tag with a comma.
+
 Various other tags are silently removed, like these Chrome OS and
 Gerrit tags: