diff --git a/README b/README
index e238271..c15fea9 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -57,6 +57,13 @@ Send pull requests, patches, comments or questions to yocto@yoctoproject.org
 When sending single patches, please using something like:
 'git send-email -1 --to yocto@yoctoproject.org --subject-prefix=meta-security][PATCH'
 
+These values can be set as defaults for this repository:
+
+$ git config sendemail.to yocto@yoctoproject.org
+$ git config format.subjectPrefix meta-security][PATCH
+
+Now you can just do 'git send-email origin/master' to send all local patches.
+
 Maintainers:    Armin Kuster <akuster808@gmail.com>
                 Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>