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| author | Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> | 2011-09-01 19:28:35 +0300 |
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| committer | Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> | 2011-09-01 19:28:35 +0300 |
| commit | 8c4b5bfb536e83cfa7958759eeb6d375d5a06185 (patch) | |
| tree | fb34b9e1522980ffe6dad1cc96df929c4adc463a /patchformatting.mdwn | |
| parent | ce3c99ec02d59aef553e28ff510bd1de9eaf1df3 (diff) | |
made the simple part of patchformatting.mdwn tunes
François Gannaz suggested on mailing list
Diffstat (limited to 'patchformatting.mdwn')
| -rw-r--r-- | patchformatting.mdwn | 11 |
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 |