From: Sergei Organov <osv@javad•com>
To: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent•com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Where man git-format-patch sends me?
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:25:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87odec28jj.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2A9EA819-C27A-4538-A9ED-B5281D137B94@wincent.com> (Wincent Colaiuta's message of "Fri\, 2 Nov 2007 11\:03\:46 +0100")
Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent•com> writes:
> El 1/11/2007, a las 16:47, Sergei Organov escribió:
>
>> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Sergei Organov wrote:
>>>
>>>> $ man git-format-patch
>>>> [...]
>>>> OPTIONS
>>>> -p Generate patch (see section on generating patches)
>>>>
>>>> -u Synonym for "-p".
>>>
>>> As you can easily see from Documentation/git-format-patch.txt, this
>>> part
>>> is generated from the file Documentation/diff-options.txt.
>>
>> Sorry, I did saw that, but it doesn't change anything.
>>
>> 1. As a user reading man git-format-patch, where do I find this
>> "section
>> on generating patches"? In another man-page? In the html
>> documentation? On the moon?
>>
>> 2. I can't find "section on generating patches" in the man git-diff
>> either, and I did say this in the part of my original message you've
>> snipped.
>>
>> So the main question remains: could you please point me to the exact
>> place in 'Documentation/' directory where this "section on generating
>> patches" resides?
>
> I believe the section in question is in Documentation/diff-format.txt
Ah, thank you! Now, diff-format.txt is included by
git-diff-index/git-diff-files/git-diff-tree, but not by git-diff and
git-format-patch. Do you think it is the right thing for the latter two
to include diff-format as well?
--
Sergei.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-02 11:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-01 13:58 Where man git-format-patch sends me? Sergei Organov
2007-11-01 14:38 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-01 15:47 ` Sergei Organov
2007-11-02 10:03 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-11-02 11:25 ` Sergei Organov [this message]
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