From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nikolai Weibull Subject: [PATCH 11/17] Documentation/git-format-patch.txt: Add --signoff, --check, and long option-names. Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 00:28:05 +0100 Message-ID: <11340844853961-git-send-email-mailing-lists.git@rawuncut.elitemail.org> References: <11340844852416-git-send-email-mailing-lists.git@rawuncut.elitemail.org> Reply-To: Nikolai Weibull Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Nikolai Weibull X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Dec 09 00:30:54 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EkVCP-0004lM-3y for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 00:29:17 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932735AbVLHX2Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2005 18:28:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932740AbVLHX2X (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2005 18:28:23 -0500 Received: from mxfep02.bredband.com ([195.54.107.73]:26318 "EHLO mxfep02.bredband.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932735AbVLHX2R (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2005 18:28:17 -0500 Received: from ironport.bredband.com ([195.54.107.82] [195.54.107.82]) by mxfep02.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20051208232816.VWZB17186.mxfep02.bredband.com@ironport.bredband.com> for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 00:28:16 +0100 Received: from c-fa2b70d5.018-10-67626713.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO puritan.petwork) ([213.112.43.250]) by ironport.bredband.com with ESMTP; 09 Dec 2005 00:28:33 +0100 X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-IronPort-AV: i="3.99,232,1131318000"; d="scan'208"; a="16674758:sNHT197373510" Received: from puritan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by puritan.petwork (Postfix) with SMTP id AE065ADFF6; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 00:28:05 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <11340844852416-git-send-email-mailing-lists.git@rawuncut.elitemail.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: The documentation was lacking descriptions for the --signoff and --check options to git-format-patch. It was also missing the following long option-names: --output-directory (-o), --numbered (-n), --keep-subject (-k), --author (-a), --date (-d), and --mbox (-m). Signed-off-by: Nikolai Weibull --- Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 23 +++++++++++++++++------ 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) be287ad64c289c1e3ff43e0784392bda3bbe3557 diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt index 7a3abec..abb8fc8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-format-patch - Prepare patches for e SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-format-patch' [-n][-o |--stdout][-k][--mbox][--diff-options] [] +'git-format-patch' [-n | -k] [-o | --stdout] [-s] [-c] [--mbox] [--diff-options] [] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -32,23 +32,34 @@ processing with applymbox. OPTIONS ------- --o :: +-o|--output-directory :: Use to store the resulting files, instead of the current working directory. --n:: +-n|--numbered:: Name output in '[PATCH n/m]' format. --k:: +-k|--keep-subject:: Do not strip/add '[PATCH]' from the first line of the commit log message. ---author, --date:: +-a|--author, -d|--date:: Output From: and Date: headers for commits made by yourself as well. Usually these are output only for commits made by people other than yourself. ---mbox:: +-s|--signoff:: + Add `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using + the committer identity of yourself. + +-c|--check:: + Display suspicious lines in the patch. The definition + of 'suspicious lines' is currently the lines that has + trailing whitespaces, and the lines whose indentation + has a SP character immediately followed by a TAB + character. + +-m|--mbox:: Format the output files for closer to mbox format by adding a phony Unix "From " line, so they can be concatenated together and fed to `git-applymbox`. -- 0.99.9l