* [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: Remove diff tool examples
@ 2011-09-18 22:11 Sverre Rabbelier
2011-09-19 9:23 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
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From: Sverre Rabbelier @ 2011-09-18 22:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra, Junio C Hamano, Git List; +Cc: Sverre Rabbelier
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 <srabbelier@gmail.com>
---
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
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1.7.6.1.724.g9519c
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