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   1 stg-new(1)
   2 ==========
   3 Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
   4 v0.12.1, February 2007
   5
   6 NAME
   7 ----
   8 stg-new - stgdesc:new[]
   9
  10 SYNOPSIS
  11 --------
  12 [verse]
  13 'stg' new [OPTIONS] <name>
  14
  15 DESCRIPTION
  16 -----------
  17
  18 Create a new, empty patch with the given <name> on the current stack.
  19 The new patch is created on top of the currently applied patches, and
  20 is made the new top of the stack.  The local changes in the working
  21 tree are not included in the patch. A stglink:refresh[] command is
  22 needed for this.
  23
  24 The given <name> must be unique in the stack, and may only contain
  25 alphanumeric characters, dashes and underscores.
  26
  27 An editor will be launched to edit the commit message to be used for
  28 the patch, unless the '--message' flag already specified one.  The
  29 'patchdescr.tmpl' template file is used if available to pre-fill the
  30 editor.  The editor to use is taken from the first of the following
  31 sources of information, and defaults to 'vi':
  32
  33 . the 'stgit.editor' GIT configuration variable
  34 . the 'EDITOR' environment variable
  35
  36 The message and other GIT commit attributes can be modified later
  37 using stglink:refresh[].
  38
  39 AUTHOR AND COMMITTER INFORMATION
  40 --------------------------------
  41
  42 The author name (resp. email) to record in the StGIT patch is taken
  43 from the first of the following sources for the information:
  44
  45 . the '--authname' (resp. '--authemail') or '--author' flag on command-line
  46 . the 'GIT_AUTHOR_NAME' (resp. 'GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL') environment variable
  47 . the 'user.name' (resp. 'user.email') GIT configuration variable
  48
  49 Similarly, the committer name (resp. email) is taken from the first of
  50 the following sources:
  51
  52 . the '--commname' (resp. '--commemail') flag on command-line
  53 . the 'GIT_COMMITTER_NAME' (resp. 'GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL') environment variable
  54 . the 'user.name' (resp. 'user.email') GIT configuration variable
  55
  56 The GIT commit generated by stglink:refresh[] will use these
  57 informations when available.  If one of them is not available, GIT
  58 will pick the value from your machine's configuration at that time, as
  59 described in gitlink:git-commit-tree[1].
  60
  61 OPTIONS
  62 -------
  63
  64 --message=<message>::
  65 -m <message>::
  66         Use <message> as the patch description.
  67
  68 --showpatch::
  69 -s::
  70         Show the patch content in the editor buffer.  This flag does
  71         nothing if '-m' is also specified.
  72
  73 --author="Name <email@company>"::
  74 -a "Name <email@company>"::
  75         Use "Name <email@company>" as the author details.  This form
  76         sets both 'authname' and 'authemail'.
  77
  78 --authname=<name>::
  79         Use <name> as the author name
  80 --authemail=<email>::
  81         Use <email> as the author e-mail
  82 --authdate=<date>::
  83         Use <date> as the author date
  84
  85 --commname=<name>::
  86         Use <name> as the committer name
  87 --commemail=<email>::
  88         Use <email> as the committer e-mail
  89
  90 FILES
  91 -----
  92
  93         <templates>/patchdescr.tmpl
  94
  95 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
  96 ---------------------
  97
  98         GIT_AUTHOR_NAME
  99         GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
 100         GIT_AUTHOR_DATE
 101         GIT_COMMITTER_NAME
 102         GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL
 103         EDITOR
 104
 105 GIT CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
 106 ---------------------------
 107
 108         user.name
 109         user.email
 110         stgit.editor
 111
 112 StGIT
 113 -----
 114 Part of the StGIT suite - see gitlink:stg[1].