From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@xxxxxxxxxx> Less work and more error checking (e.g. does a merge base exist?). Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 11 ++++------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 31054a2..6446791 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -2298,17 +2298,14 @@ these changes, just apply directly to the `release` branch, and then merge that into the `test` branch. To create diffstat and shortlog summaries of changes to include in a "please -pull" request to Linus you can use: +pull" request to Linus you can use linkgit:git-request-pull[1]: ------------------------------------------------- -$ git diff --stat origin..release +$ git request-pull origin git://example.com/proj.git release ------------------------------------------------- -and - -------------------------------------------------- -$ git log -p origin..release | git shortlog -------------------------------------------------- +where the `git://` URL points to your <<public-repositories,public +repository>>. Here are some of the scripts that simplify all this even further. -- 1.8.1.336.g94702dd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html