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diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 6d589e1..4515cab 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -142,19 +142,25 @@ archive, summarize the relevant points of the discussion. [[commit-reference]] If you want to reference a previous commit in the history of a stable -branch, use the format "abbreviated sha1 (subject, date)", -with the subject enclosed in a pair of double-quotes, like this: +branch, use the format "abbreviated hash (subject, date)", like this: .... - Commit f86a374 ("pack-bitmap.c: fix a memleak", 2015-03-30) + Commit f86a374 (pack-bitmap.c: fix a memleak, 2015-03-30) noticed that ... .... The "Copy commit summary" command of gitk can be used to obtain this -format, or this invocation of `git show`: +format (with the subject enclosed in a pair of double-quotes), or this +invocation of `git show`: .... - git show -s --date=short --pretty='format:%h ("%s", %ad)' <commit> + git show -s --pretty=reference <commit> +.... + +or, on an older version of Git without support for --pretty=reference: + +.... + git show -s --date=short --pretty='format:%h (%s, %ad)' <commit> .... [[git-tools]] @@ -372,9 +378,9 @@ such as "Thanks-to:", "Based-on-patch-by:", or "Mentored-by:". Some parts of the system have dedicated maintainers with their own repositories. -- `git-gui/` comes from git-gui project, maintained by Pat Thoyts: +- `git-gui/` comes from git-gui project, maintained by Pratyush Yadav: - git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git + https://github.com/prati0100/git-gui.git - `gitk-git/` comes from Paul Mackerras's gitk project: |