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diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 118ca6e9404..f79ad9ff603 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -528,7 +528,33 @@ See more details on the proper patch format in the following references. +16) Sending "git pull" requests (from Linus emails) +Please write the git repo address and branch name alone on the same line +so that I can't even by mistake pull from the wrong branch, and so +that a triple-click just selects the whole thing. + +So the proper format is something along the lines of: + + "Please pull from + + git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6 i2c-for-linus + + to get these changes:" + +so that I don't have to hunt-and-peck for the address and inevitably +get it wrong (actually, I've only gotten it wrong a few times, and +checking against the diffstat tells me when I get it wrong, but I'm +just a lot more comfortable when I don't have to "look for" the right +thing to pull, and double-check that I have the right branch-name). + + +Please use "git diff -M --stat --summary" to generate the diffstat: +the -M enables rename detection, and the summary enables a summary of +new/deleted or renamed files. + +With rename detection, the statistics are rather different [...] +because git will notice that a fair number of the changes are renames. ----------------------------------- SECTION 2 - HINTS, TIPS, AND TRICKS |