Re: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: add section for iterating patches

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Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>>> +. Build on a suitable base branch, see the <<choose-starting-point, section above>>,
>>> +and format-patch the series. If you are doing "rebase -i" in-place to
>>> +update from the previous round, this will reuse the previous base so
>>> +(2) and (3) may become trivial.
>>> +
>>> +. Find the base of where the last round was queued
>>
>> It's somewhat unusual for bulleted lists to start with a dot, but this
>> is consistent with the remainder of this document.
>
> Yeah, that's mostly why I added dots instead of asterisks here.

Here we want a list of numbered items so that we can refer to other
items in the same list like "(2) and (3) may become trivial".
Wouldn't asterisks give us an unordered list that is typically
rendered as a list of unordered items instead?




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