[PATCH 3/3] request-pull: document -o/--output
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Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
- Date
- Oct 3, 2021, 12:29 UTC
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- <20211003122943.338199-4-bagasdotme@gmail.com>
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- <20211003122943.338199-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Document the option in git-request-pull(1), as well as usage example (along with shell redirection method).
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> --- Documentation/git-request-pull.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-request-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-request-pull.txt index 4d4392d0f8..4bb07d8865 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-request-pull.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-request-pull.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-request-pull - Generates a summary of pending changes SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git request-pull' [-p] <start> <url> [<end>] +'git request-pull' [-p] [-o | --output <file>] <start> <url> [<end>] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ OPTIONS -p:: Include patch text in the output. +-o <file>:: +--output <file>:: + Write the request to the specified file. + <start>:: Commit to start at. This names a commit that is already in the upstream history. @@ -64,6 +68,15 @@ which will produce a request to the upstream, summarizing the changes between the `v1.0` release and your `master`, to pull it from your public repository. +To generate the request to a file for later editing, you can either +use shell redirection: + + git request-pull v1.0 https://git.ko.xz/project master > request + +or with `-o` option: + + git request-pull -o request v1.0 https://git.ko.xz/project master + If you pushed your change to a branch whose name is different from the one you have locally, e.g. @@ -73,7 +86,6 @@ then you can ask that to be pulled with git request-pull v1.0 https://git.ko.xz/project master:for-linus - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
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