Frederick Eaton <frede...@ofb.net> 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 <sebastien.guimm...@gmail.com>
> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclo...@gmail.com>
> Eric Sunshine <sunsh...@sunshineco.com>
> Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com>
> $ ./contrib/contacts/git-contacts
> ./outgoing/0002-git-column.1-clarify-initial-description-provide-exa.patch
>
> Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com>
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.
