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+16) Sending "git pull" requests (from Linus emails)
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+Please write the git repo address and branch name alone on the same line
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+so that I can't even by mistake pull from the wrong branch, and so
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+that a triple-click just selects the whole thing.
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+So the proper format is something along the lines of:
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+ "Please pull from
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+ git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6 i2c-for-linus
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+ to get these changes:"
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+so that I don't have to hunt-and-peck for the address and inevitably
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+get it wrong (actually, I've only gotten it wrong a few times, and
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+checking against the diffstat tells me when I get it wrong, but I'm
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+just a lot more comfortable when I don't have to "look for" the right
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+thing to pull, and double-check that I have the right branch-name).
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+Please use "git diff -M --stat --summary" to generate the diffstat:
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+the -M enables rename detection, and the summary enables a summary of
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+new/deleted or renamed files.
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+With rename detection, the statistics are rather different [...]
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+because git will notice that a fair number of the changes are renames.
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-----------------------------------
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SECTION 2 - HINTS, TIPS, AND TRICKS
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