Try instead: git format-patch --stdout origin/1.5.1-SNAPSHOT > ACCUMULO-2141.patch
-- Christopher L Tubbs II http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Arshak Navruzyan <[email protected]> wrote: > Josh, > > Thanks! I would like to make a bunch of doc improvements so it's probably > worth while to get me up to speed on making patches. On the last step of > the contributors writeup (#7) I get this: > > git format-patch 1.5.1-SNAPSHOT --stdout > ACCUMULO-2141.patch > fatal: ambiguous argument '1.5.1-SNAPSHOT': unknown revision or path not in > the working tree. > Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this: > 'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]' > > Arshak > > > On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Absolutely! >> >> Feel free to open tickets as you see fit and we'll be happy to help you >> through the process. >> >> To help you in the patch-making process, check out >> http://accumulo.apache.org/git.html#contributors >> >> >> On 1/4/14, 5:11 PM, Arshak Navruzyan wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have been going through the 1.5 examples and found a few discrepancies >>> (for example the FileCount line in >>> http://accumulo.apache.org/1.5/examples/dirlist.html hasn't been updated >>> from the 1.4 syntax). >>> >>> Can I help out by making some corrections as I go along? >>> >>> Arshak >>> >>>
