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Commit 1486361777b3ce5ead414d9b2d9fc46f9cd86e0b

Authored by Randy Dunlap
Committed by Linus Torvalds
1 parent 1f07be1c31
Exists in master and in 7 other branches imx_3.0.35_4.1.0, imx_3.10.17_1.0.1_ga, imx_3.10.53_1.1.0_ga, imx_3.14.28_1.0.0_ga, smarc-imx_3.10.53_1.1.0_ga, smarc-imx_3.14.28_1.0.0_ga, smarc-l5.0.0_1.0.0-ga

SubmittingPatches: add git pull & diffstat format info 

Add git pull command info and diffstat summary info so that we don't
have to search email archives for it repeatedly.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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528 528 references.
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  531 +16) Sending "git pull" requests (from Linus emails)
531 532  
  533 +Please write the git repo address and branch name alone on the same line
  534 +so that I can't even by mistake pull from the wrong branch, and so
  535 +that a triple-click just selects the whole thing.
  536 +
  537 +So the proper format is something along the lines of:
  538 +
  539 + "Please pull from
  540 +
  541 + git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6 i2c-for-linus
  542 +
  543 + to get these changes:"
  544 +
  545 +so that I don't have to hunt-and-peck for the address and inevitably
  546 +get it wrong (actually, I've only gotten it wrong a few times, and
  547 +checking against the diffstat tells me when I get it wrong, but I'm
  548 +just a lot more comfortable when I don't have to "look for" the right
  549 +thing to pull, and double-check that I have the right branch-name).
  550 +
  551 +
  552 +Please use "git diff -M --stat --summary" to generate the diffstat:
  553 +the -M enables rename detection, and the summary enables a summary of
  554 +new/deleted or renamed files.
  555 +
  556 +With rename detection, the statistics are rather different [...]
  557 +because git will notice that a fair number of the changes are renames.
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533 559 -----------------------------------
534 560 SECTION 2 - HINTS, TIPS, AND TRICKS