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1stg-new(1)
2==========
3Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
4v0.12.1, February 2007
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6NAME
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8stg-new - stgdesc:new[]
9
10SYNOPSIS
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d1d7d28d 12[verse]
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15DESCRIPTION
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17
18Create a new, empty patch with the given <name> on the current stack.
19The new patch is created on top of the currently applied patches, and
20is made the new top of the stack. The local changes in the working
21tree are not included in the patch. A stglink:refresh[] command is
22needed for this.
23
d1d7d28d 24The given <name> must be unique in the stack, and may only contain
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25alphanumeric characters, dashes and underscores. If no name is given,
26one is generated from the first line of the commit message.
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28An editor will be launched to edit the commit message to be used for
29the patch, unless the '--message' flag already specified one. The
30'patchdescr.tmpl' template file is used if available to pre-fill the
31editor. The editor to use is taken from the first of the following
32sources of information, and defaults to 'vi':
33
34. the 'stgit.editor' GIT configuration variable
35. the 'EDITOR' environment variable
36
37The message and other GIT commit attributes can be modified later
38using stglink:refresh[].
39
40AUTHOR AND COMMITTER INFORMATION
41--------------------------------
42
43The author name (resp. email) to record in the StGIT patch is taken
44from the first of the following sources for the information:
45
46. the '--authname' (resp. '--authemail') or '--author' flag on command-line
47. the 'GIT_AUTHOR_NAME' (resp. 'GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL') environment variable
48. the 'user.name' (resp. 'user.email') GIT configuration variable
49
50Similarly, the committer name (resp. email) is taken from the first of
51the following sources:
52
53. the '--commname' (resp. '--commemail') flag on command-line
54. the 'GIT_COMMITTER_NAME' (resp. 'GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL') environment variable
55. the 'user.name' (resp. 'user.email') GIT configuration variable
56
57The GIT commit generated by stglink:refresh[] will use these
58informations when available. If one of them is not available, GIT
59will pick the value from your machine's configuration at that time, as
60described in gitlink:git-commit-tree[1].
61
62OPTIONS
63-------
64
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65--message=<message>::
66-m <message>::
67 Use <message> as the patch description.
68
69--showpatch::
70-s::
71 Show the patch content in the editor buffer. This flag does
72 nothing if '-m' is also specified.
73
74--author="Name <email@company>"::
75-a "Name <email@company>"::
76 Use "Name <email@company>" as the author details. This form
77 sets both 'authname' and 'authemail'.
78
79--authname=<name>::
80 Use <name> as the author name
81--authemail=<email>::
82 Use <email> as the author e-mail
83--authdate=<date>::
84 Use <date> as the author date
85
86--commname=<name>::
87 Use <name> as the committer name
88--commemail=<email>::
89 Use <email> as the committer e-mail
90
91FILES
92-----
93
94 <templates>/patchdescr.tmpl
95
96ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
97---------------------
98
99 GIT_AUTHOR_NAME
100 GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
101 GIT_AUTHOR_DATE
102 GIT_COMMITTER_NAME
103 GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL
104 EDITOR
105
106GIT CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
107---------------------------
108
109 user.name
110 user.email
111 stgit.editor
112
113StGIT
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b24fee3e 115Part of the StGIT suite - see gitlink:stg[1].