[PATCH] doc: format-patch: don't use origin as a branch name
From: Philip Oakley <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 23:02:06
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Historically (5 Nov 2005 v0.99.9-46-g28ffb89) the git-format-patch used 'origin' as the upstream branch name. This is now used to name the remote. Use the more modern 'master' as the branch name. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <redacted> --- I noticed this while cross-checking details for updating the guide Documentation/(git)everyday.txt -- Philip Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index c0fd470..b0f041f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt@@ -523,25 +523,25 @@ $ git format-patch -k --stdout R1..R2 | git am -3 -k ------------ * Extract all commits which are in the current branch but not in the -origin branch: +master branch: + ------------ -$ git format-patch origin +$ git format-patch master ------------ + For each commit a separate file is created in the current directory. -* Extract all commits that lead to 'origin' since the inception of the +* Extract all commits that lead to 'master' since the inception of the project: + ------------ -$ git format-patch --root origin +$ git format-patch --root master ------------ * The same as the previous one: + ------------ -$ git format-patch -M -B origin +$ git format-patch -M -B master ------------ + Additionally, it detects and handles renames and complete rewrites
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