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Re: Documentation (mainly user-manual) patches

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
May 19, 2007, 04:02 UTC
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<20070519040212.GC3141@spearce.org>
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<20070518134316.GA21925@fieldses.org>
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 06:56:35AM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> >   BTW, there is this nice git-request-pull tool which will prepare this
> > mail for you and additionally include the list of commits included in
> > that repository, which is somewhat more friendly to the readers (I
> > myself wondered). ;-)
> 
> OK!  I'll start including the shortlog.  Appended, if anyone's still
> curious about this one.--b.

request-pull also does nice things like include the fetch URL, and the branch name, and in a nice format that makes it very easy to copy and paste into a "git pull" (or "git fetch") command line[*1*], so its slightly more than just the shortlog. ;-)

[*1*] By popular demand from Git's creator.
-- 
Shawn.
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  2. user-manual: reorganize public git repo discussionJ. Bruce Fields, May 18, 2007
  3. Petr BaudisMay 18, 2007
  4. J. Bruce FieldsMay 18, 2007
  5. Shawn O. PearceMay 19, 2007
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