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Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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14 changes: 7 additions & 7 deletions Documentation/CodingGuidelines
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Like other projects, we also have some guidelines to keep to the
code. For git in general, three rough rules are:
code. For Git in general, three rough rules are:

- Most importantly, we never say "It's in POSIX; we'll happily
ignore your needs should your system not conform to it."
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As for more concrete guidelines, just imitate the existing code
(this is a good guideline, no matter which project you are
contributing to). It is always preferable to match the _local_
convention. New code added to git suite is expected to match
convention. New code added to Git suite is expected to match
the overall style of existing code. Modifications to existing
code is expected to match the style the surrounding code already
uses (even if it doesn't match the overall style of existing code).
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- We try to keep to at most 80 characters per line.

- We try to support a wide range of C compilers to compile git with,
- We try to support a wide range of C compilers to compile Git with,
including old ones. That means that you should not use C99
initializers, even if a lot of compilers grok it.

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- If you are planning a new command, consider writing it in shell
or perl first, so that changes in semantics can be easily
changed and discussed. Many git commands started out like
changed and discussed. Many Git commands started out like
that, and a few are still scripts.

- Avoid introducing a new dependency into git. This means you
- Avoid introducing a new dependency into Git. This means you
usually should stay away from scripting languages not already
used in the git core command set (unless your command is clearly
used in the Git core command set (unless your command is clearly
separate from it, such as an importer to convert random-scm-X
repositories to git).
repositories to Git).

- When we pass <string, length> pair to functions, we should try to
pass them in that order.
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions Documentation/Makefile
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install-webdoc : html
'$(SHELL_PATH_SQ)' ./install-webdoc.sh $(WEBDOC_DEST)

# You must have a clone of git-htmldocs and git-manpages repositories
# next to the git repository itself for the following to work.
# You must have a clone of 'git-htmldocs' and 'git-manpages' repositories
# next to the 'git' repository itself for the following to work.

quick-install: quick-install-man

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archive, summarize the relevant points of the discussion.


(3) Generate your patch using git tools out of your commits.
(3) Generate your patch using Git tools out of your commits.

git based diff tools generate unidiff which is the preferred format.
Git based diff tools generate unidiff which is the preferred format.

You do not have to be afraid to use -M option to "git diff" or
"git format-patch", if your patch involves file renames. The
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(4) Sending your patches.

People on the git mailing list need to be able to read and
People on the Git mailing list need to be able to read and
comment on the changes you are submitting. It is important for
a developer to be able to "quote" your changes, using standard
e-mail tools, so that they may comment on specific portions of
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Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <[email protected]>

This line can be automatically added by git if you run the git-commit
This line can be automatically added by Git if you run the git-commit
command with the -s option.

Notice that you can place your own Signed-off-by: line when
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tell you if your patch is merged in pu if you rebase on top of
master).

* Read the git mailing list, the maintainer regularly posts messages
* Read the Git mailing list, the maintainer regularly posts messages
entitled "What's cooking in git.git" and "What's in git.git" giving
the status of various proposed changes.

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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions Documentation/blame-options.txt
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running extra passes of inspection.
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<num> is optional but it is the lower bound on the number of
alphanumeric characters that git must detect as moving/copying
alphanumeric characters that Git must detect as moving/copying
within a file for it to associate those lines with the parent
commit. The default value is 20.

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looks for copies from other files in any commit.
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<num> is optional but it is the lower bound on the number of
alphanumeric characters that git must detect as moving/copying
alphanumeric characters that Git must detect as moving/copying
between files for it to associate those lines with the parent
commit. And the default value is 40. If there are more than one
`-C` options given, the <num> argument of the last `-C` will
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