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[PATCH] SubmittingPatches: Remove diff tool examples

From
Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 18, 2011, 22:11 UTC
Message-ID
<1316383901-17580-1-git-send-email-srabbelier@gmail.com>

Since Cogito is long deprecated, it is somewhat awkward to leave it as example. Removing Cogito leaves just git and StGit, which is a rather incomplete list of git diff tools available. Sidestep the problem of deciding what tools to mention by not mentioning any.

Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
---
  This uses the subject Ramkumar suggested. Since the subject no
  longer references Cogito, I've added a reference to the reason
  for this removal as the first line of the description.
 Documentation/SubmittingPatches |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 938eccf..0dbf2c9 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -134,8 +134,7 @@ Another thing: NULL pointers shall be written as NULL, not as 0.
 
 (2) Generate your patch using git tools out of your commits.
 
-git based diff tools (git, Cogito, and StGIT included) generate
-unidiff which is the preferred format.
+git based diff tools generate unidiff which is the preferred format.
 
 You do not have to be afraid to use -M option to "git diff" or
 "git format-patch", if your patch involves file renames.  The
-- 
1.7.6.1.724.g9519c
Next: Ramkumar Ramachandra
Message 1 of 2 in “SubmittingPatches: Remove diff tool examples”
  1. SubmittingPatches: Remove diff tool examplesSverre Rabbelier, Sep 18, 2011
  2. Ramkumar RamachandraSep 19, 2011

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