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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce•org>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses•org>
Cc: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse•cz>, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox•net>,
	git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Documentation (mainly user-manual) patches
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 00:02:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070519040212.GC3141@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070518134316.GA21925@fieldses.org>

"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses•org> wrote:
> 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.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-19  4:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-18  3:37 Documentation (mainly user-manual) patches J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-18  3:39 ` [PATCH] user-manual: reorganize public git repo discussion J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-18  4:56 ` Documentation (mainly user-manual) patches Petr Baudis
2007-05-18 13:43   ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-19  4:02     ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2007-05-19  4:13       ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-19  4:32         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-19  5:19           ` J. Bruce Fields

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