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From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: add section for iterating patches
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 08:17:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zkw8fTO0wk13Lf7n@tanuki> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8r08jqsj.fsf@gitster.g>

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On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 10:23:40AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >>> +. Build on a suitable base branch, see the <<choose-starting-point, section above>>,
> >>> +and format-patch the series. If you are doing "rebase -i" in-place to
> >>> +update from the previous round, this will reuse the previous base so
> >>> +(2) and (3) may become trivial.
> >>> +
> >>> +. Find the base of where the last round was queued
> >>
> >> It's somewhat unusual for bulleted lists to start with a dot, but this
> >> is consistent with the remainder of this document.
> >
> > Yeah, that's mostly why I added dots instead of asterisks here.
> 
> Here we want a list of numbered items so that we can refer to other
> items in the same list like "(2) and (3) may become trivial".
> Wouldn't asterisks give us an unordered list that is typically
> rendered as a list of unordered items instead?

I didn't even know that dots are rendered as numbered items. TIL, I
guess?

Patrick

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  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-21  6:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-14 12:30 [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: add section for iterating patches Karthik Nayak
2024-05-17  5:15 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-05-17 11:33   ` Karthik Nayak
2024-05-17 17:23     ` Junio C Hamano
2024-05-21  6:17       ` Patrick Steinhardt [this message]
2024-05-17 12:27 ` [PATCH v2] " Karthik Nayak
2024-05-17 17:24   ` Junio C Hamano

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