X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fhowto%2Frebase-from-internal-branch.txt;h=3b3a5c2e69e59d4708171ba745d7d4009788102b;hb=e8811929344c46aed7669e148527af054eb3e18b;hp=f627e4271c40fc2c4b28f825828e205b2fc8cb88;hpb=b033b4e48195ef5974b7255f30de2cd7f67868b8;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt b/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt index f627e4271..3b3a5c2e6 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt @@ -38,12 +38,9 @@ ancestry graph looked like this: So I started from master, made a bunch of edits, and committed: $ git checkout master - $ cd Documentation; ed git.txt git-apply-patch-script.txt ... + $ cd Documentation; ed git.txt ... $ cd ..; git add Documentation/*.txt - $ git commit -s -v - -NOTE. The -v flag to commit is a handy way to make sure that -your additions are not introducing bogusly formatted lines. + $ git commit -s After the commit, the ancestry graph would look like this: @@ -98,7 +95,7 @@ to do cherrypicking using only the core GIT tools. Let's go back to the earlier picture, with different labels. You, as an individual developer, cloned upstream repository and -amde a couple of commits on top of it. +made a couple of commits on top of it. *your "master" head upstream --> #1 --> #2 --> #3 @@ -109,9 +106,9 @@ prepare #2 and #3 for e-mail submission. $ git format-patch master^^ master -This creates two files, 0001-XXXX.txt and 0002-XXXX.txt. Send +This creates two files, 0001-XXXX.patch and 0002-XXXX.patch. Send them out "To: " your project maintainer and "Cc: " your mailing -list. You could use contributed script git-send-email-script if +list. You could use contributed script git-send-email if your host has necessary perl modules for this, but your usual MUA would do as long as it does not corrupt whitespaces in the patch. @@ -127,7 +124,7 @@ up your changes, along with other changes. The two commits #2' and #3' in the above picture record the same changes your e-mail submission for #2 and #3 contained, but -probably with the new sign-off line added by the upsteam +probably with the new sign-off line added by the upstream maintainer and definitely with different committer and ancestry information, they are different objects from #2 and #3 commits.