From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sverre Rabbelier Subject: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: Remove diff tool examples Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:11:41 +0200 Message-ID: <1316383901-17580-1-git-send-email-srabbelier@gmail.com> Cc: Sverre Rabbelier To: Ramkumar Ramachandra , Junio C Hamano , Git List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 19 00:20:22 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R5Pin-0006Z5-IB for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:20:21 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932778Ab1IRWUH (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:20:07 -0400 Received: from mail-ey0-f174.google.com ([209.85.215.174]:53958 "EHLO mail-ey0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932707Ab1IRWUG (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:20:06 -0400 Received: by eya28 with SMTP id 28so1352868eya.19 for ; Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:20:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:x-mailer; bh=qB0XM84hM14CLETUOwGGZeVmvajwoVbL/jMu73/smm8=; b=DRJ7U3xiVZYsJlxjwnaLFvOh79NMEVf4GehczyHY2GLgW8xCRiKVamYpTHp48tFNQz d9dleQEivxrdH9Tpcq7XsQIP3M4Ofzo/gE/JDdz3vs0lyprjEUy06Z/vza/18GOV9Tgr YxrP+N1THx2mDtYFzAV0yr48hmFYTOQmk4S64= Received: by 10.213.114.136 with SMTP id e8mr510022ebq.43.1316383952253; Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:12:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([188.142.63.148]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x45sm40006125eeh.11.2011.09.18.15.12.30 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:12:31 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.6.1.724.g9519c Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Since Cogito is long deprecated, it is somewhat awkward to leave it as example. Removing Cogito leaves just git and StGit, which is a rather incomplete list of git diff tools available. Sidestep the problem of deciding what tools to mention by not mentioning any. Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier --- This uses the subject Ramkumar suggested. Since the subject no longer references Cogito, I've added a reference to the reason for this removal as the first line of the description. Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 938eccf..0dbf2c9 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -134,8 +134,7 @@ Another thing: NULL pointers shall be written as NULL, not as 0. (2) Generate your patch using git tools out of your commits. -git based diff tools (git, Cogito, and StGIT included) generate -unidiff which is the preferred format. +git based diff tools generate unidiff which is the preferred format. You do not have to be afraid to use -M option to "git diff" or "git format-patch", if your patch involves file renames. The -- 1.7.6.1.724.g9519c