NAME
git-request-pull - Generates a summary of pending changes
SYNOPSIS
git request-pull\n [-p] <start> <URL> [<end>]DESCRIPTION
Generate a request asking your upstream project to pull changes into their tree. The request, printed to the standard output, begins with the branch description, summarizes the changes, and indicates from where they can be pulled.
The upstream project is expected to have the commit named by <start> and the output asks it to integrate the changes you made since that commit, up to the commit named by <end>, by visiting the repository named by <URL>.
OPTIONS
-p
<start>
<URL>
<end>
When the repository named by <URL> has the commit at a tip of a ref that is different from the ref you have locally, you can use the <local>:<remote> syntax, to have its local name, a colon :, and its remote name.
EXAMPLES
Imagine that you built your work on your master branch on top of the v1.0 release, and want it to be integrated into the project. First you push that change to your public repository for others to see:
git push https://git.ko.xz/project masterThen, you run this command:
git request-pull v1.0 https://git.ko.xz/project masterwhich will produce a request to the upstream, summarizing the changes between the v1.0 release and your master, to pull it from your public repository.
If you pushed your change to a branch whose name is different from the one you have locally, e.g.
git push https://git.ko.xz/project master:for-linusthen you can ask that to be pulled with
git request-pull v1.0 https://git.ko.xz/project master:for-linusGIT
Part of the git(1) suite