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authorTomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>2011-09-01 19:28:35 +0300
committerTomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>2011-09-01 19:28:35 +0300
commit8c4b5bfb536e83cfa7958759eeb6d375d5a06185 (patch)
treefb34b9e1522980ffe6dad1cc96df929c4adc463a
parentce3c99ec02d59aef553e28ff510bd1de9eaf1df3 (diff)
made the simple part of patchformatting.mdwn tunes
François Gannaz suggested on mailing list
-rw-r--r--patchformatting.mdwn11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/patchformatting.mdwn b/patchformatting.mdwn
index 80de9ee..6ff103a 100644
--- a/patchformatting.mdwn
+++ b/patchformatting.mdwn
@@ -37,12 +37,13 @@ that is good guideline to follow here too.
Every patch should (must!) contain only one bugfix or new feature.
-Eric S. Raymond has written good 'Software Release Practice HOWTO'.
+Eric S. Raymond has written good
+[Software Release Practice HOWTO](http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-Release-Practice-HOWTO/).
Check what he has to say about this issue.
## Prepare patches for e-mail submission
-If you're made just one commit (containing just one bugfix or new feature)
+If you've made just one commit (containing just one bugfix or new feature)
you can run
git format-patch HEAD^
@@ -71,7 +72,7 @@ If you have committed more patches, and want to prepare all of those
you can check with `git log` a 40-char commit-sha1 of the last commit
*since* you want to generate patch files. When you enter
- git format patch commit-sha1(-prefix)
+ git format-patch <commit-sha1(-prefix)>
every commit *after* that commit-sha1 will be used to generate
patch files...
@@ -82,7 +83,7 @@ patch files...
(This is the preferred way)
-If you try to execute `git send-email` and you'll get
+If you try to execute `git send-email` and you get
git: 'send-email' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
@@ -125,7 +126,7 @@ unchanged:
1. Start composing new mail
-2. Enter notmuch mailing list address to To: field.
+2. Enter notmuch mailing list address into To: field.
3. Go to the body part of the email