Frederick Eaton <[email protected]> writes: > I've never sent patches using git before so I thought it would be > useful to make a small test.
... eh, welcome ;-) > I read ./Documentation/SubmittingPatches and I sent these to myself > and practiced applying them using `git am`, and I also compiled and > checked the revised manual pages to see that they format correctly. > Unfortunately it was too late to run 'git diff --check' because I had > already committed the changes to my repo, but I don't see any > whitespace highlighted when I run 'git log -p'. Thanks for being diligent. > By the way for some reason git-contacts shows more names when I run it > on the patch hash than when I give it the patch name: > > $ ./contrib/contacts/git-contacts 222580cb60ee64f7b81fed64ec8fbfc81952557f > Sébastien Guimmara <[email protected]> > Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <[email protected]> > Eric Sunshine <[email protected]> > Junio C Hamano <[email protected]> > $ ./contrib/contacts/git-contacts > ./outgoing/0002-git-column.1-clarify-initial-description-provide-exa.patch > > Junio C Hamano <[email protected]> I've never trusted what git-contacts say, but the latter one certainly looks strange, as git log --no-merges Documentation/git-column.txt makes it clear that I have nothing to do with it ;-). Perhaps the tool gives too much credit for Signed-off-by: footer, or something.
