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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Ian McDonald <imcdnzl@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	trivial@kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Revised [PATCH] Documentation: Update to SubmittingPatches
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 01:57:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060111005721.GA29663@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cbec11ac0512201343q79de6e13h6fccf1259445076@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:43:40AM +1300, Ian McDonald wrote:
> Updated documentation for submitting patches taking account of git.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <imcdnzl@gmail.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> index 237d54c..8756475 100644
> --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> @@ -20,10 +20,24 @@ SECTION 1 - CREATING AND SENDING YOUR CH
> 
> 
> 
> -1) "diff -up"
> -------------
> +1) Creating a diff file
> +-----------------------
> 
> -Use "diff -up" or "diff -uprN" to create patches.
> +You can use git-diff(1) or git-format-patch(1) which makes your life easy. If
> +you want it to be more difficult then carry on reading.
>...

IMHO, this doesn't make much sense:

The average patch submitter does _not_ use git in any way - and there's 
no reason why he should.

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-11  0:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-20 21:43 Revised [PATCH] Documentation: Update to SubmittingPatches Ian McDonald
2006-01-11  0:57 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
     [not found]   ` <46118.10.10.10.28.1136943503.squirrel@linux1>
2006-01-11  1:38     ` Sean
2006-01-12  2:22       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-11  1:54     ` Adrian Bunk

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