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diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index b44fd51f27..4515cab519 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -80,7 +80,9 @@ GitHub-Travis CI hints section for details. Do not forget to update the documentation to describe the updated behavior and make sure that the resulting documentation set formats -well. It is currently a liberal mixture of US and UK English norms for +well (try the Documentation/doc-diff script). + +We currently have a liberal mixture of US and UK English norms for spelling and grammar, which is somewhat unfortunate. A huge patch that touches the files all over the place only to correct the inconsistency is not welcome, though. Potential clashes with other changes that can @@ -140,19 +142,25 @@ archive, summarize the relevant points of the discussion. [[commit-reference]] If you want to reference a previous commit in the history of a stable -branch, use the format "abbreviated sha1 (subject, date)", -with the subject enclosed in a pair of double-quotes, like this: +branch, use the format "abbreviated hash (subject, date)", like this: .... - Commit f86a374 ("pack-bitmap.c: fix a memleak", 2015-03-30) + Commit f86a374 (pack-bitmap.c: fix a memleak, 2015-03-30) noticed that ... .... The "Copy commit summary" command of gitk can be used to obtain this -format, or this invocation of `git show`: +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> + git show -s --date=short --pretty='format:%h (%s, %ad)' <commit> .... [[git-tools]] @@ -370,15 +378,15 @@ such as "Thanks-to:", "Based-on-patch-by:", or "Mentored-by:". Some parts of the system have dedicated maintainers with their own repositories. -- 'git-gui/' comes from git-gui project, maintained by Pat Thoyts: +- `git-gui/` comes from git-gui project, maintained by Pratyush Yadav: - git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git + https://github.com/prati0100/git-gui.git -- 'gitk-git/' comes from Paul Mackerras's gitk project: +- `gitk-git/` comes from Paul Mackerras's gitk project: git://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk -- 'po/' comes from the localization coordinator, Jiang Xin: +- `po/` comes from the localization coordinator, Jiang Xin: https://github.com/git-l10n/git-po/ |