From: "W. Trevor King" <wk...@tremily.us> Less work and more error checking (e.g. does a merge base exist?). Add an explicit push before request-pull to satisfy request-pull, which checks to make sure the references are publically available.
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wk...@tremily.us> --- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index d9276d7..cf09ddf 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -2304,16 +2304,11 @@ these changes, just apply directly to the `release` branch, and then merge that into the `test` branch. To create diffstat and shortlog summaries of changes to include in a "please -pull" request to Linus you can use: +pull" request to Linus you can use linkgit:git-request-pull[1]: ------------------------------------------------- -$ git diff --stat origin..release -------------------------------------------------- - -and - -------------------------------------------------- -$ git log -p origin..release | git shortlog +$ git push mytree +$ git request-pull origin mytree release ------------------------------------------------- Here are some of the scripts that simplify all this even further. -- 1.8.1.336.g94702dd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
