Amend the section which describes how to get a commit summary to show
how do to that with "git show", currently the documentation only shows
how to do that with gitk.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx>
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Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 9ef624ce38..78c8e36a4b 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -134,8 +134,17 @@ with the subject enclosed in a pair of double-quotes, like this:
noticed that ...
The "Copy commit summary" command of gitk can be used to obtain this
-format.
+format, or this invocation of "git show":
+ git show -s --date=format:%Y-%m-%d --pretty='commit %h ("%s", %ad)' <commit>
+
+To turn that into a handy alias:
+
+ git config --global alias.git-commit-summary "show -s --date=format:%Y-%m-%d --pretty='commit %h (\"%s\", %ad)'"
+
+And then to get the commit summary:
+
+ git git-commit-summary <commit>
(3) Generate your patch using Git tools out of your commits.
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