To be honest, I'm a bit overwhelmed by the documentation for submitting a patch! I tried to follow as best I could, here's my attempt (please advise). >From e88ad689a7587c11f270a10f191a3b6bc52a90d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anthony Sottile <asottile@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 06:54:14 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Fix minor typo in git-diff docs. Signed-off-by: Anthony Sottile <asottile@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/diff-options.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index 89cc0f4..43d18a4 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ endif::git-log[] the diff between the preimage and `/dev/null`. The resulting patch is not meant to be applied with `patch` or `git apply`; this is solely for people who want to just concentrate on reviewing the - text after the change. In addition, the output obviously lack + text after the change. In addition, the output obviously lacks enough information to apply such a patch in reverse, even manually, hence the name of the option. + -- 2.7.4