Reuben Thomas <[email protected]> writes: > On Sun, 25 Jan 2026 at 03:53, Collin Funk <[email protected]> wrote: > >> However, I noticed that the suggestion into the manual is to use >> 'diff -c'. I assume this was written in the CVS days, since git users >> will be much more accustomed used to 'diff -u'. >> >> How about we suggest 'git format-patch' instead? For most projects which >> use 'git' that is the common way to do things. It is nice for >> maintainers since it preserves authorship when applying with 'git am'. > > > Thanks, I like this patch. Makes sense since we're using git to use its > tools, and I guess that will apply to most GNU projects these days. Please > install the patch!
Yep, I figure people using another vesion control system will know a similar command that works well there too. Thanks for the review, I pushed it. I also pushed another patch to ignore some generated documentation files. They can make the version number generated by 'git-version-gen' go wonky if they aren't ignored. Collin
>From 390c04c5bd597dc109ab11fb11f245a1b06eecec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 Message-ID: <390c04c5bd597dc109ab11fb11f245a1b06eecec.1769652398.git.collin.fu...@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <cfb2dccbdfbdf035e00010b29ed1120c136610c7.1769652398.git.collin.fu...@gmail.com> References: <cfb2dccbdfbdf035e00010b29ed1120c136610c7.1769652398.git.collin.fu...@gmail.com> From: Collin Funk <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:02:34 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] maint: ignore some generated documentation files * .gitignore: Ignore the html directory created by 'make html' and the directories made by 'make pdf ps dvi'. --- .gitignore | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index c304674..656e3eb 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -14,9 +14,12 @@ /configure /doc/*.aux /doc/*.dvi +/doc/*.html /doc/*.info* /doc/*.log /doc/*.pdf +/doc/*.t2d +/doc/*.t2p /doc/*.toc /doc/hello.?? /doc/hello.??s -- 2.52.0
