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Re: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: add section for iterating patches

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Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date
May 21, 2024, 06:17 UTC
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On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 10:23:40AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >>> +. Build on a suitable base branch, see the <<choose-starting-point, section above>>,
> >>> +and format-patch the series. If you are doing "rebase -i" in-place to
> >>> +update from the previous round, this will reuse the previous base so
> >>> +(2) and (3) may become trivial.
> >>> +
> >>> +. Find the base of where the last round was queued
> >>
> >> It's somewhat unusual for bulleted lists to start with a dot, but this
> >> is consistent with the remainder of this document.
> >
> > Yeah, that's mostly why I added dots instead of asterisks here.
> 
> Here we want a list of numbered items so that we can refer to other
> items in the same list like "(2) and (3) may become trivial".
> Wouldn't asterisks give us an unordered list that is typically
> rendered as a list of unordered items instead?

I didn't even know that dots are rendered as numbered items. TIL, I guess?

Patrick
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Message 5 of 7 in “SubmittingPatches: add section for iterating patches”
  1. SubmittingPatches: add section for iterating patchesKarthik Nayak, May 14, 2024
  2. Patrick SteinhardtMay 17, 2024
  3. Karthik NayakMay 17, 2024
  4. Junio C HamanoMay 17, 2024
  5. Patrick SteinhardtMay 21, 2024
  6. SubmittingPatches: add section for iterating patchesKarthik Nayak, May 17, 2024
  7. Junio C HamanoMay 17, 2024

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