diff, log doc: say "patch text" instead of "patches"
authorJohannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Mon, 16 Sep 2019 20:46:21 +0000 (22:46 +0200)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:13:27 +0000 (12:13 -0700)
commit6fae6bd51851ecfd8a86ee26f788b93559d53c7b
tree1f60ca5318292d9e5a8a3778302767895121f5bb
parent5fa0f5238b0cd46cfe7f6fa76c3f526ea98148d9
diff, log doc: say "patch text" instead of "patches"

diff, log doc: say "patch text" instead of "patches"

A poster on Stackoverflow was confused that the documentation of git-log
promised to generate "patches" or "patch files" with -p, but there were
none to be found. Rewrite the corresponding paragraph to talk about
"patch text" to avoid the confusion.

Shorten the language to say "X does Y" in place of "X does not Z, but Y".

Cross-reference the referred-to commands like the rest of the file does.

Enumerate git-show because it includes the description as well.

Mention porcelain commands before plumbing commands because I guess that
the paragraph is read more frequently in their context.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Acked-by: Martin Ă…gren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt