Re: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: add section for iterating patches
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Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
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- 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