| Message ID | 3aaa7a318b50fc296afdf5be98fbb9a714e23bd2.1573241590.git.liu.denton@gmail.com (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | New, archived |
| Headers | show |
| Series | learn the "summary" pretty format | expand |
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index bb7e33ce15..849d27663e 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -153,6 +153,12 @@ with the subject enclosed in a pair of double-quotes, like this: The "Copy commit summary" command of gitk can be used to obtain this format, or this invocation of `git show`: +.... + git show -s --pretty=summary <commit> +.... + +or, on an older version of Git without support for --pretty=summary: + .... git show -s --date=short --pretty='format:%h ("%s", %ad)' <commit> ....
Since Git was taught the `--pretty=summary` option, it is no longer necessary to manually specify the format string to get the commit summary. Teach users to use the new option while keeping the old invocation around in case they have an older version of Git. Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)