Fix typos in docs

Change-Id: I547e99c24707895c1e3614821c5cb8da354b294a
Remove --use-mailmap as it's not needed

--use-mailmap is a newer git construct that applies mailmaps to
things that are not using the mailmap aware format strings. But
we're using those format strings, and this breaks on precise.

Simplest thing - don't use the arg, since it's pointless and broken
for us.

Change-Id: Ic8ca062a6936a4f112aa52d0eb209211658611c2
Merge "Fix typos in docs"
Permit pre-release versions with git metadata

This is implied by the example and seems necessary for doing automated
generation of pre-release versions.

Change-Id: I8d4ceec200fac7982f2dafa7f8f1a8abfd4b0f83
Make setUp fail if sdist fails.

Hygiene - fail at the point of failure, not later.

Change-Id: Id0328f1afad5dd2fb4f5ef22e025d60eef1d4e52
Merge "Permit pre-release versions with git metadata"
Merge "Make setUp fail if sdist fails."