From: Graham Percival <graham@percival-music.ca>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:55:51 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: Clarify patch instructions.
X-Git-Tag: release/2.13.1-1~61^2~1^2~14^2~1^2~8
X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=edcbee7a751330235443c8fd8d3615f9e86c1065;p=lilypond.git

Clarify patch instructions.
---

diff --git a/Documentation/devel/git-starting.itexi b/Documentation/devel/git-starting.itexi
index da135430c4..e975e4d228 100644
--- a/Documentation/devel/git-starting.itexi
+++ b/Documentation/devel/git-starting.itexi
@@ -221,8 +221,10 @@ git add FILENAME
 @noindent
 (and possibly modify the @file{GNUmakefile})
 
-Send an email to @email{lilypond-devel@@gnu.org} with the diff as
-an attachment.
+These commands will produce one or more files named
+@file{0001-xyz}, @file{0002-abc}, etc. in the top directory of the
+git tree.  Send an email to @email{lilypond-devel@@gnu.org} with
+these files attachmented.
 
 
 @node Committing directly