Since Git was taught the `--pretty=reference` option, it is no longer necessary to manually specify the format string to get the commit reference. Teach users to use the new option while keeping the old invocation around in case they have an older version of Git. Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 7860dd2568..4515cab519 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -153,6 +153,12 @@ The "Copy commit summary" command of gitk can be used to obtain this format (with the subject enclosed in a pair of double-quotes), or this invocation of `git show`: +.... + git show -s --pretty=reference <commit> +.... + +or, on an older version of Git without support for --pretty=reference: + .... git show -s --date=short --pretty='format:%h (%s, %ad)' <commit> .... -- 2.24.0.420.g9ac4901264
