Re: Where man git-format-patch sends me?

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Wincent Colaiuta <win@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> El 1/11/2007, a las 16:47, Sergei Organov escribió:
>
>> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Sergei Organov wrote:
>>>
>>>> $ man git-format-patch
>>>> [...]
>>>> OPTIONS
>>>>       -p     Generate patch (see section on generating patches)
>>>>
>>>>       -u     Synonym for "-p".
>>>
>>> As you can easily see from Documentation/git-format-patch.txt, this  
>>> part
>>> is generated from the file Documentation/diff-options.txt.
>>
>> Sorry, I did saw that, but it doesn't change anything.
>>
>> 1. As a user reading man git-format-patch, where do I find this  
>> "section
>>   on generating patches"? In another man-page? In the html
>>   documentation? On the moon?
>>
>> 2. I can't find "section on generating patches" in the man git-diff
>>   either, and I did say this in the part of my original message you've
>>   snipped.
>>
>> So the main question remains: could you please point me to the exact
>> place in 'Documentation/' directory where this "section on generating
>> patches" resides?
>
> I believe the section in question is in Documentation/diff-format.txt

Ah, thank you! Now, diff-format.txt is included by
git-diff-index/git-diff-files/git-diff-tree, but not by git-diff and
git-format-patch. Do you think it is the right thing for the latter two
to include diff-format as well?

-- 
Sergei.
-
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

[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel Development]     [Gcc Help]     [IETF Annouce]     [DCCP]     [Netdev]     [Networking]     [Security]     [V4L]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux SCSI]     [Fedora Users]

  Powered by Linux