doc/SubmittingPatches: show how to get a CLI commit summary

Amend the section which describes how to get a commit summary to show
how do to that with "git show", currently the documentation only shows
how to do that with gitk.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 9ef624ce38b298d6fd01cee6ff88c40de7ac00b4..bc8ad00473b566261e384f24a552f9b2cd97a3f4 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -134,8 +134,9 @@ with the subject enclosed in a pair of double-quotes, like this:
     noticed that ...
 
 The "Copy commit summary" command of gitk can be used to obtain this
     noticed that ...
 
 The "Copy commit summary" command of gitk can be used to obtain this

-format.
+format, or this invocation of "git show":

 
 

+    git show -s --date=short --pretty='format:%h ("%s", %ad)' <commit>

 
 (3) Generate your patch using Git tools out of your commits.
 
 
 (3) Generate your patch using Git tools out of your commits.