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authorEric Engestrom <[email protected]>2019-07-19 21:27:44 +0100
committerEric Engestrom <[email protected]>2019-07-19 22:24:28 +0000
commite8febd6cba296ead8f94ae87e7d54a3bb7ca50b0 (patch)
tree3d3dbd33c00ac347b2873633cb632a9dacd580e7
parent0e34e1a0ce4741797451648ccad6e634eb4e7a37 (diff)
docs: simplify `Fixes:` git command
Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <[email protected]>
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@@ -85,7 +85,9 @@ noted in the patch comment. For example:
<pre>
Fixes: d7b3707c612 "util/disk_cache: use stat() to check if entry is a directory"
</pre>
-<li>You can produce those fixes lines by running <pre>git config --global pretty.fixes 'Fixes: %h ("%s")'</pre> once and then using <pre>git show -s --pretty=fixes &lt;sha1&gt;</pre>
+<li>You can produce those fixes lines by running
+<pre>git config --global alias.fixes "show -s --pretty='format:Fixes: %h (\"%s\")'"</pre>
+once and then using <pre>git fixes &lt;sha1&gt;</pre>
<li>If there have been several revisions to a patch during the review
process, they should be noted such as in this example:
<pre>