1git-request-pull(1) 2=================== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-request-pull - Generates a summary of pending changes 7 8SYNOPSIS 9-------- 10[verse] 11'git request-pull' [-p] <start> <url> [<end>] 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15 16Generate a request asking your upstream project to pull changes into 17their tree. The request, printed to the standard output, 18begins with the branch description, summarizes 19the changes and indicates from where they can be pulled. 20 21The upstream project is expected to have the commit named by 22`<start>` and the output asks it to integrate the changes you made 23since that commit, up to the commit named by `<end>`, by visiting 24the repository named by `<url>`. 25 26 27OPTIONS 28------- 29-p:: 30 Include patch text in the output. 31 32<start>:: 33 Commit to start at. This names a commit that is already in 34 the upstream history. 35 36<url>:: 37 The repository URL to be pulled from. 38 39<end>:: 40 Commit to end at (defaults to HEAD). This names the commit 41 at the tip of the history you are asking to be pulled. 42+ 43When the repository named by `<url>` has the commit at a tip of a 44ref that is different from the ref you have locally, you can use the 45`<local>:<remote>` syntax, to have its local name, a colon `:`, and 46its remote name. 47 48 49EXAMPLE 50------- 51 52Imagine that you built your work on your `master` branch on top of 53the `v1.0` release, and want it to be integrated to the project. 54First you push that change to your public repository for others to 55see: 56 57 git push https://git.ko.xz/project master 58 59Then, you run this command: 60 61 git request-pull v1.0 https://git.ko.xz/project master 62 63which will produce a request to the upstream, summarizing the 64changes between the `v1.0` release and your `master`, to pull it 65from your public repository. 66 67If you pushed your change to a branch whose name is different from 68the one you have locally, e.g. 69 70 git push https://git.ko.xz/project master:for-linus 71 72then you can ask that to be pulled with 73 74 git request-pull v1.0 https://git.ko.xz/project master:for-linus 75 76 77GIT 78--- 79Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite