From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Philip Oakley" Subject: [RFC PATCH] Documentation: diff produces patches, which can be 'apply'd Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 14:17:38 +0100 Organization: OPDS Message-ID: <18BB8318853C47BDB078EBC2CDE79D98@PhilipOakley> Reply-To: "Philip Oakley" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Git List" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 09 15:17:25 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SS6lg-0000p5-GV for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 09 May 2012 15:17:24 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759364Ab2EINRT (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2012 09:17:19 -0400 Received: from out1.ip07ir2.opaltelecom.net ([62.24.128.243]:23160 "EHLO out1.ip07ir2.opaltelecom.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759335Ab2EINRS (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2012 09:17:18 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: At4TAG9tqk9cHlGK/2dsb2JhbABEgngBNogOpnIBAQKBIYEIgSdLAQETARMBAS4eAQEsAggCASQ5AQQaBgcdGwIBAgMBhTgHAYInGgeaEIZLmn6LJScwaINXYwSIMIVKiRSPMIJqgVUHAQ0 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,558,1330905600"; d="scan'208";a="34307598" Received: from host-92-30-81-138.as13285.net (HELO PhilipOakley) ([92.30.81.138]) by out1.ip07ir2.opaltelecom.net with SMTP; 09 May 2012 14:17:16 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: This attached patch (my first) suggests a couple of small documenation changes for 'diff' based on Junio's supportive comments at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/197282 The purpose of the patch is to make users aware of the apply command as a companion to diff. If changing the NAME text is considered inappropriate, the same change could just as easily be applied to the start of the DESCRIPTION. I haven't sorted out using 'send-mail' for patches yet, so I've attached it. The patch was generated with "git format-patch -M" as per directions. The patch was on top of tag v1.7.10.msysgit.0 from https://github.com/msysgit/git Comments? Philip