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From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
To: GitList <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: [PATCH] doc: format-patch: don't use origin as a branch name
Date: Fri,  1 Aug 2014 20:20:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1406920826-4680-1-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> (raw)

Historically (5 Nov 2005 v0.99.9-46-g28ffb89) the git-format-patch used
'origin' as the upstream branch name. This is now used to name the remote.
Use the more modern 'master' as the branch name.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
---

I noticed this while cross-checking details for updating the guide
Documentation/(git)everyday.txt
--
Philip

 Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index c0fd470..b0f041f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
@@ -523,25 +523,25 @@ $ git format-patch -k --stdout R1..R2 | git am -3 -k
 ------------
 
 * Extract all commits which are in the current branch but not in the
-origin branch:
+master branch:
 +
 ------------
-$ git format-patch origin
+$ git format-patch master
 ------------
 +
 For each commit a separate file is created in the current directory.
 
-* Extract all commits that lead to 'origin' since the inception of the
+* Extract all commits that lead to 'master' since the inception of the
 project:
 +
 ------------
-$ git format-patch --root origin
+$ git format-patch --root master
 ------------
 
 * The same as the previous one:
 +
 ------------
-$ git format-patch -M -B origin
+$ git format-patch -M -B master
 ------------
 +
 Additionally, it detects and handles renames and complete rewrites
-- 
1.9.4.msysgit.0

             reply	other threads:[~2014-08-01 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-01 19:20 Philip Oakley [this message]
2014-08-01 19:36 ` [PATCH] doc: format-patch: don't use origin as a branch name Jonathan Nieder
2014-08-01 20:08   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-08-01 22:26     ` Philip Oakley

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