Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> --- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 20 +++++++++++--------- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index f89952a..4c9d69b 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -1796,11 +1796,12 @@ taken from the message containing each patch. Public git repositories ----------------------- -Another way to submit changes to a project is to tell the maintainer of -that project to pull the changes from your repository using git-pull[1]. -In the section "<<getting-updates-with-git-pull, Getting updates with -git pull>>" we described this as a way to get updates from the "main" -repository, but it works just as well in the other direction. +Another way to submit changes to a project is to tell the maintainer +of that project to pull the changes from your repository using +gitlink:git-pull[1]. In the section "<<getting-updates-with-git-pull, +Getting updates with git pull>>" we described this as a way to get +updates from the "main" repository, but it works just as well in the +other direction. If you and the maintainer both have accounts on the same machine, then you can just pull changes from each other's repositories directly; @@ -2057,7 +2058,8 @@ $ cd work Linus's tree will be stored in the remote branch named origin/master, and can be updated using gitlink:git-fetch[1]; you can track other public trees using gitlink:git-remote[1] to set up a "remote" and -git-fetch[1] to keep them up-to-date; see <<repositories-and-branches>>. +gitlink:git-fetch[1] to keep them up-to-date; see +<<repositories-and-branches>>. Now create the branches in which you are going to work; these start out at the current tip of origin/master branch, and should be set up (using @@ -2512,9 +2514,9 @@ $ gitk origin..mywork & And browse through the list of patches in the mywork branch using gitk, applying them (possibly in a different order) to mywork-new using cherry-pick, and possibly modifying them as you go using commit --amend. -The git-gui[1] command may also help as it allows you to individually -select diff hunks for inclusion in the index (by right-clicking on the -diff hunk and choosing "Stage Hunk for Commit"). +The gitlink:git-gui[1] command may also help as it allows you to +individually select diff hunks for inclusion in the index (by +right-clicking on the diff hunk and choosing "Stage Hunk for Commit"). Another technique is to use git-format-patch to create a series of patches, then reset the state to before the patches: -- 1.5.3.rc4.43.gaf14 - 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