From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 14:21:54 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: doc/SubmittingPatches: show how to get a CLI commit summary
X-Git-Tag: v2.13.0-rc0~41^2
X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/48a96972fd4421e1136b50d6650a2b9d45947754

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>
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diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 9ef624ce38..bc8ad00473 100644
--- 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
-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.