From: "W. Trevor King" <redacted>
Less work and more error checking (e.g. does a merge base exist?).
Add an explicit push before request-pull to satisfy request-pull,
which checks to make sure the references are publically available.
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <redacted>
---
Documentation/user-manual.txt | 14 +++++---------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index a4dbd9e..3aab106 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -2305,17 +2305,13 @@ branch and then merge into each of the test and release branches. For
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:
+After pushing your work to `mytree`, you can use
+linkgit:git-request-pull[1] to prepare a "please pull" request message
+to send to Linus:
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-$ git diff --stat origin..release
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-
-and
-
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-$ git log -p origin..release | git shortlog
+$ git push mytree
+$ git request-pull origin mytree release
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Here are some of the scripts that simplify all this even further.
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