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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2024-05-01 10:58:22 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2024-05-01 10:58:22 -0700
commit7af7f87d1682bc0221ef8ef496126c204d35760d (patch)
tree78a7acd5d4f7a8b7db6b1f44bcb506f7bb5feefb /git-format-patch.html
parenta181e55f63bee8d3a44fd0be402039db41158169 (diff)
downloadgit-htmldocs-7af7f87d1682bc0221ef8ef496126c204d35760d.tar.gz
Autogenerated HTML docs for v2.45.0-31-gd4cc1
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--- a/git-format-patch.html
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@@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ git-format-patch(1) Manual Page
[--in-reply-to=&lt;message-id&gt;] [--suffix=.&lt;sfx&gt;]
[--ignore-if-in-upstream] [--always]
[--cover-from-description=&lt;mode&gt;]
- [--rfc] [--subject-prefix=&lt;subject-prefix&gt;]
+ [--rfc[=&lt;rfc&gt;]] [--subject-prefix=&lt;subject-prefix&gt;]
[(--reroll-count|-v) &lt;n&gt;]
[--to=&lt;email&gt;] [--cc=&lt;email&gt;]
[--[no-]cover-letter] [--quiet]
@@ -1872,14 +1872,23 @@ the patches (with a value of e.g. "PATCH my-project").</p></div>
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
---rfc
+--rfc[=&lt;rfc&gt;]
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
- Prepends "RFC" to the subject prefix (producing "RFC PATCH" by
- default). RFC means "Request For Comments"; use this when sending
- an experimental patch for discussion rather than application.
+ Prepends the string <em>&lt;rfc&gt;</em> (defaults to "RFC") to
+ the subject prefix. As the subject prefix defaults to
+ "PATCH", you&#8217;ll get "RFC PATCH" by default.
</p>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>RFC means "Request For Comments"; use this when sending
+an experimental patch for discussion rather than application.
+"--rfc=WIP" may also be a useful way to indicate that a patch
+is not complete yet ("WIP" stands for "Work In Progress").</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>If the convention of the receiving community for a particular extra
+string is to have it <em>after</em> the subject prefix, the string <em>&lt;rfc&gt;</em>
+can be prefixed with a dash ("<code>-</code>") to signal that the the rest of
+the <em>&lt;rfc&gt;</em> string should be appended to the subject prefix instead,
+e.g., <code>--rfc='-(WIP)'</code> results in "PATCH (WIP)".</p></div>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
-v &lt;n&gt;
@@ -2619,7 +2628,7 @@ merge commit.</p></div>
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- 2024-02-08 15:45:59 PST
+ 2024-05-01 10:56:52 PDT
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