[PATCH] SubmittingPatches: Remove diff tool examples
From: Sverre Rabbelier <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:52:03
Since Cogito is long deprecated, it is somewhat awkward to leave it as example. Removing Cogito leaves just git and StGit, which is a rather incomplete list of git diff tools available. Sidestep the problem of deciding what tools to mention by not mentioning any. Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <redacted> --- This uses the subject Ramkumar suggested. Since the subject no longer references Cogito, I've added a reference to the reason for this removal as the first line of the description. Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 938eccf..0dbf2c9 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches@@ -134,8 +134,7 @@ Another thing: NULL pointers shall be written as NULL, not as 0. (2) Generate your patch using git tools out of your commits. -git based diff tools (git, Cogito, and StGIT included) generate -unidiff which is the preferred format. +git based diff tools generate unidiff which is the preferred format. You do not have to be afraid to use -M option to "git diff" or "git format-patch", if your patch involves file renames. The
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