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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-28 17:32:00 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-28 17:32:00 -0400
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Merge branch 'linus' into cpus4096
Conflicts: kernel/stop_machine.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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@@ -528,7 +528,33 @@ See more details on the proper patch format in the following
528references. 528references.
529 529
530 530
53116) Sending "git pull" requests (from Linus emails)
531 532
533Please write the git repo address and branch name alone on the same line
534so that I can't even by mistake pull from the wrong branch, and so
535that a triple-click just selects the whole thing.
536
537So the proper format is something along the lines of:
538
539 "Please pull from
540
541 git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6 i2c-for-linus
542
543 to get these changes:"
544
545so that I don't have to hunt-and-peck for the address and inevitably
546get it wrong (actually, I've only gotten it wrong a few times, and
547checking against the diffstat tells me when I get it wrong, but I'm
548just a lot more comfortable when I don't have to "look for" the right
549thing to pull, and double-check that I have the right branch-name).
550
551
552Please use "git diff -M --stat --summary" to generate the diffstat:
553the -M enables rename detection, and the summary enables a summary of
554new/deleted or renamed files.
555
556With rename detection, the statistics are rather different [...]
557because git will notice that a fair number of the changes are renames.
532 558
533----------------------------------- 559-----------------------------------
534SECTION 2 - HINTS, TIPS, AND TRICKS 560SECTION 2 - HINTS, TIPS, AND TRICKS