From: W. Trevor King Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:05:01 +0000 (-0500) Subject: user-manual: Use request-pull to generate "please pull" text X-Git-Tag: v1.8.1.5~2^2~1 X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/ae6ef554c8c785f96fce482e33cc78080aafc43f user-manual: Use request-pull to generate "please pull" text Less work and more error checking (e.g. does a merge base exist?). Add an explicit push before request-pull to satisfy request-pull, which checks to make sure the references are publically available. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index d934299fa3..acf872d893 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -2305,17 +2305,13 @@ branch and then merge into each of the test and release branches. For these changes, just apply directly to the "release" branch, and then merge that into the "test" branch. -To create diffstat and shortlog summaries of changes to include in a "please -pull" request to Linus you can use: +After pushing your work to `mytree`, you can use +linkgit:git-request-pull[1] to prepare a "please pull" request message +to send to Linus: ------------------------------------------------- -$ git diff --stat origin..release -------------------------------------------------- - -and - -------------------------------------------------- -$ git log -p origin..release | git shortlog +$ git push mytree +$ git request-pull origin mytree release ------------------------------------------------- Here are some of the scripts that simplify all this even further.