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Tue, 21 May 2024 02:17:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: by localhost (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id cf82534b (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Tue, 21 May 2024 06:17:33 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 08:17:33 +0200 From: Patrick Steinhardt To: Junio C Hamano Cc: Karthik Nayak , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: add section for iterating patches Message-ID: References: <20240514123039.1029081-1-knayak@gitlab.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="i3T+eyDaZaSudD3N" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: --i3T+eyDaZaSudD3N Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 10:23:40AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Karthik Nayak writes: >=20 > >>> +. Build on a suitable base branch, see the <>, > >>> +and format-patch the series. If you are doing "rebase -i" in-place to > >>> +update from the previous round, this will reuse the previous base so > >>> +(2) and (3) may become trivial. > >>> + > >>> +. Find the base of where the last round was queued > >> > >> It's somewhat unusual for bulleted lists to start with a dot, but this > >> is consistent with the remainder of this document. > > > > Yeah, that's mostly why I added dots instead of asterisks here. >=20 > Here we want a list of numbered items so that we can refer to other > items in the same list like "(2) and (3) may become trivial". > Wouldn't asterisks give us an unordered list that is typically > rendered as a list of unordered items instead? I didn't even know that dots are rendered as numbered items. TIL, I guess? 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