Re: Making a patch: git format-patch does not produce the documented format

2013-08-02 Thread Dale R. Worley
From: John Keeping j...@keeping.me.uk git-format-patch(1) says: By default, the subject of a single patch is [PATCH] followed by the concatenation of lines from the commit message up to the first blank line (see the DISCUSSION section of git-commit(1)). I think

Re: Making a patch: git format-patch does not produce the documented format

2013-08-02 Thread Junio C Hamano
wor...@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) writes: I'm preparing some clarifications of SubmittingPatches to explain things that a new person (e.g., me) would not know. I am not sure if SubmittingPatches is a good place, though. The document is a guidance for people who contribute to _this_ project.

Making a patch: git format-patch does not produce the documented format

2013-07-31 Thread Dale R. Worley
I'm working on writing a patch, but I'm running into a problem. The patch itself is from this commit: $ git log -1 commit 07a25537909dd277426818a39d9bc4235e755383 Author: Dale Worley wor...@ariadne.com Date: Thu Jul 18 18:43:12 2013 -0400 open() returns -1 on failure,

Re: Making a patch: git format-patch does not produce the documented format

2013-07-31 Thread John Keeping
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 05:31:47PM -0400, Dale R. Worley wrote: Notice that the whole commit message has been formatted as if it is part of the Subject line, and the line breaks in the commit message have been refilled. The file Documentation/SubmittingPatches says that git format-patch