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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2025-08-25 14:22:01 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2025-08-25 14:22:02 -0700 |
| commit | 0d8f4ccfe3b13bb5eb95f030dc5fe76efb255397 (patch) | |
| tree | d7c7205b2ae9788e006996be6f8074978f215507 /Documentation/git-format-patch.adoc | |
| parent | Merge branch 'tc/diff-tree-max-depth' (diff) | |
| parent | doc lint: check that synopsis manpages have synopsis inlines (diff) | |
| download | git-0d8f4ccfe3b13bb5eb95f030dc5fe76efb255397.tar.gz git-0d8f4ccfe3b13bb5eb95f030dc5fe76efb255397.zip | |
Merge branch 'ja/doc-lint-sections-and-synopsis'
Doc lint updates to encourage the newer and easier-to-use
`synopsis` format, with fixes to a handful of existing uses.
* ja/doc-lint-sections-and-synopsis:
doc lint: check that synopsis manpages have synopsis inlines
doc:git-for-each-ref: fix styling and typos
doc: check for absence of the form --[no-]parameter
doc: check for absence of multiple terms in each entry of desc list
doc: check well-formedness of delimited sections
doc: test linkgit macros for well-formedness
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-format-patch.adoc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-format-patch.adoc | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.adoc b/Documentation/git-format-patch.adoc index a8b53db9a6..048d1b9815 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.adoc +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.adoc @@ -295,7 +295,8 @@ header). Note also that `git send-email` already handles this transformation for you, and this option should not be used if you are feeding the result to `git send-email`. ---[no-]force-in-body-from:: +--force-in-body-from:: +--no-force-in-body-from:: With the e-mail sender specified via the `--from` option, by default, an in-body "From:" to identify the real author of the commit is added at the top of the commit log message if @@ -314,7 +315,8 @@ feeding the result to `git send-email`. `Cc:`, and custom) headers added so far from config or command line. ---[no-]cover-letter:: +--cover-letter:: +--no-cover-letter:: In addition to the patches, generate a cover letter file containing the branch description, shortlog and the overall diffstat. You can fill in a description in the file before sending it out. @@ -379,7 +381,8 @@ configuration options in linkgit:git-notes[1] to use this workflow). The default is `--no-notes`, unless the `format.notes` configuration is set. ---[no-]signature=<signature>:: +--signature=<signature>:: +--no-signature:: Add a signature to each message produced. Per RFC 3676 the signature is separated from the body by a line with '-- ' on it. If the signature option is omitted the signature defaults to the Git version @@ -411,7 +414,8 @@ you can use `--suffix=-patch` to get `0001-description-of-my-change-patch`. Output an all-zero hash in each patch's From header instead of the hash of the commit. ---[no-]base[=<commit>]:: +--no-base:: +--base[=<commit>]:: Record the base tree information to identify the state the patch series applies to. See the BASE TREE INFORMATION section below for details. If <commit> is "auto", a base commit is |