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authorMichael Niedermayer2011-11-09 02:58:59 +0100
committerMichael Niedermayer2011-11-09 02:59:49 +0100
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'qatar/master'
* qatar/master: tls: Use ERR_get_error() in do_tls_poll indeo3: Fix a fencepost error. mxfdec: Fix comparison of unsigned expression < 0. mpegts: set stream id on just created stream, not an unrelated variable ra288: return error if input buffer is too small ra288: utilize DSPContext.vector_fmul() ra288: use memcpy() to copy decoded samples to output mace: only calculate output buffer size once Remove redundant filename self-references inside files. indeo3data: add missing config.h #include for HAVE_BIGENDIAN x86: drop pointless ARCH_X86 #ifdef from files in x86 subdirectory avplay: reset rdft when closing stream. doc/git-howto: expand format-patch and send-email notes. lavf: expand doxy for some AVFormatContext fields. Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
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@@ -205,8 +205,19 @@ I. BASICS:
git format-patch <commit> [-o directory]
- will generate a set of patches out of the current branch starting from
- commit. By default the patches are created in the current directory.
+ will generate a set of patches for each commit between <commit> and
+ current HEAD. E.g.
+
+ git format-patch origin/master
+
+ will generate patches for all commits on current branch which are not
+ present in upstream.
+ A useful shortcut is also
+
+ git format-patch -n
+
+ which will generate patches from last n commits.
+ By default the patches are created in the current directory.
11. Sending patches for review
@@ -215,6 +226,8 @@ I. BASICS:
will send the patches created by git format-patch or directly generates
them. All the email fields can be configured in the global/local
configuration or overridden by command line.
+ Note that this tool must often be installed separately (e.g. git-email
+ package on Debian-based distros).
12. Pushing changes to remote trees