[PATCH 11/17] Documentation/git-format-patch.txt: Add --signoff, --check, and long option-names.
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- Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.git@rawuncut.elitemail.org>
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- Dec 8, 2005, 23:28 UTC
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The documentation was lacking descriptions for the --signoff and --check options to git-format-patch. It was also missing the following long option-names: --output-directory (-o), --numbered (-n), --keep-subject (-k), --author (-a), --date (-d), and --mbox (-m).
Signed-off-by: Nikolai Weibull <nikolai@bitwi.se>
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Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 23 +++++++++++++++++------ 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt index 7a3abec..abb8fc8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-format-patch - Prepare patches for e SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-format-patch' [-n][-o <dir>|--stdout][-k][--mbox][--diff-options] <his> [<mine>] +'git-format-patch' [-n | -k] [-o <dir> | --stdout] [-s] [-c] [--mbox] [--diff-options] <his> [<mine>] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -32,23 +32,34 @@ processing with applymbox. OPTIONS ------- --o <dir>:: +-o|--output-directory <dir>:: Use <dir> to store the resulting files, instead of the current working directory. --n:: +-n|--numbered:: Name output in '[PATCH n/m]' format. --k:: +-k|--keep-subject:: Do not strip/add '[PATCH]' from the first line of the commit log message. ---author, --date:: +-a|--author, -d|--date:: Output From: and Date: headers for commits made by yourself as well. Usually these are output only for commits made by people other than yourself. ---mbox:: +-s|--signoff:: + Add `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using + the committer identity of yourself. + +-c|--check:: + Display suspicious lines in the patch. The definition + of 'suspicious lines' is currently the lines that has + trailing whitespaces, and the lines whose indentation + has a SP character immediately followed by a TAB + character. + +-m|--mbox:: Format the output files for closer to mbox format by adding a phony Unix "From " line, so they can be concatenated together and fed to `git-applymbox`.
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