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The branch description will be included in 'git format-patch --cover-letter' and in 'git pull-request' emails. It can also be used in the automatic merge message. Tell the reader. While here, clarify that the description may be a multi-line explanation of the purpose of the branch's patch series. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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git-request-pull(1)
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NAME
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----
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git-request-pull - Generates a summary of pending changes
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SYNOPSIS
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--------
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[verse]
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'git request-pull' [-p] <start> <url> [<end>]
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DESCRIPTION
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-----------
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Generate a request asking your upstream project to pull changes into
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their tree. The request, printed to the standard output,
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begins with the branch description, summarizes
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the changes and indicates from where they can be pulled.
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The upstream project is expected to have the commit named by
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`<start>` and the output asks it to integrate the changes you made
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since that commit, up to the commit named by `<end>`, by visiting
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the repository named by `<url>`.
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OPTIONS
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-p::
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Include patch text in the output.
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<start>::
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Commit to start at. This names a commit that is already in
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the upstream history.
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<url>::
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The repository URL to be pulled from.
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<end>::
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Commit to end at (defaults to HEAD). This names the commit
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at the tip of the history you are asking to be pulled.
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+
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When the repository named by `<url>` has the commit at a tip of a
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ref that is different from the ref you have locally, you can use the
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`<local>:<remote>` syntax, to have its local name, a colon `:`, and
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its remote name.
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EXAMPLE
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Imagine that you built your work on your `master` branch on top of
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the `v1.0` release, and want it to be integrated to the project.
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First you push that change to your public repository for others to
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see:
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git push https://git.ko.xz/project master
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Then, you run this command:
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git request-pull v1.0 https://git.ko.xz/project master
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which will produce a request to the upstream, summarizing the
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changes between the `v1.0` release and your `master`, to pull it
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from your public repository.
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If you pushed your change to a branch whose name is different from
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the one you have locally, e.g.
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git push https://git.ko.xz/project master:for-linus
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then you can ask that to be pulled with
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git request-pull v1.0 https://git.ko.xz/project master:for-linus
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GIT
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---
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
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