From 58591e8a1f4de2e53fdd09b2aa86948687106c07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 01:04:52 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: diffstat options

Add desired 'diffstat' options to use for kernel patches.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
 Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 3c12fc1469403..6198e5ebcf65b 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -386,6 +386,9 @@ a diffstat, to show what files have changed, and the number of inserted
 and deleted lines per file.  A diffstat is especially useful on bigger
 patches.  Other comments relevant only to the moment or the maintainer,
 not suitable for the permanent changelog, should also go here.
+Use diffstat options "-p 1 -w 70" so that filenames are listed from the
+top of the kernel source tree and don't use too much horizontal space
+(easily fit in 80 columns, maybe with some indentation).
 
 See more details on the proper patch format in the following
 references.
-- 
GitLab