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[PATCH v2 12/15] user-manual: Use request-pull to generate "please pull" text

From: W. Trevor King <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:56:06
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)

From: "W. Trevor King" <redacted>

Less work and more error checking (e.g. does a merge base exist?).

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <redacted>
---
 Documentation/user-manual.txt | 11 ++++-------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 31054a2..6446791 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -2298,17 +2298,14 @@ these changes, just apply directly to the `release` branch, and then
 merge that into the `test` branch.
 
 To create diffstat and shortlog summaries of changes to include in a "please
-pull" request to Linus you can use:
+pull" request to Linus you can use linkgit:git-request-pull[1]:
 
 -------------------------------------------------
-$ git diff --stat origin..release
+$ git request-pull origin git://example.com/proj.git release
 -------------------------------------------------
 
-and
-
--------------------------------------------------
-$ git log -p origin..release | git shortlog
--------------------------------------------------
+where the `git://` URL points to your <<public-repositories,public
+repository>>.
 
 Here are some of the scripts that simplify all this even further.
 
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