debian man page for stg-edit

Query: stg-edit

OS: debian

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STG-EDIT(1)							   StGit Manual 						       STG-EDIT(1)

NAME
stg-edit - edit a patch description or diff
SYNOPSIS
stg edit [options] [<patch>]
DESCRIPTION
Edit the description and author information of the given patch (or the current patch if no patch name was given). With --diff, also edit the diff. The editor is invoked with the following contents: From: A U Thor <author@example.com> Date: creation date Patch description If --diff was specified, the diff appears at the bottom, after a separator: --- Diff text Command-line options can be used to modify specific information without invoking the editor. (With the --edit option, the editor is invoked even if such command-line options are given.) If the patch diff is edited but does not apply, no changes are made to the patch at all. The edited patch is saved to a file which you can feed to "stg edit --file", once you have made sure it does apply.
OPTIONS
-d, --diff Edit the patch diff. -e, --edit Invoke interactive editor. --sign Add a "Signed-off-by:" to the end of the patch. --ack Add an "Acked-by:" line to the end of the patch. -m MESSAGE, --message MESSAGE Use MESSAGE instead of invoking the editor. -f FILE, --file FILE Use the contents of FILE instead of invoking the editor. (If FILE is "-", write to stdout.) --save-template FILE Instead of running the command, just write the message template to FILE, and exit. (If FILE is "-", write to stdout.) When driving StGit from another program, it is often useful to first call a command with --save-template, then let the user edit the message, and then call the same command with --file. --author "NAME <EMAIL>" Set the author details. --authname NAME Set the author name. --authemail EMAIL Set the author email. --authdate DATE Set the author date. -O OPTIONS, --diff-opts OPTIONS Extra options to pass to "git diff".
STGIT
Part of the StGit suite - see linkman:stg[1] StGit 03/13/2012 STG-EDIT(1)
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