stg-new(1)

NAME

stg-new - stgdesc:new[]

SYNOPSIS

stg new [OPTIONS] [name]

DESCRIPTION

Create a new, empty patch with the given <name> on the current stack.
The new patch is created on top of the currently applied patches, and
is made the new top of the stack. The local changes in the working tree are not included in the patch. A stgrefresh command is needed for this.

The given <name> must be unique in the stack, and may only contain
alphanumeric characters, dashes and underscores. If no name is given,
one is generated from the first line of the commit message.

An editor will be launched to edit the commit message to be used for
the patch, unless the --message flag already specified one. The patchdescr.tmpl template file is used if available to pre-fill the editor. The editor to use is taken from the first of the following
sources of information, and defaults to vi:

1. the stgit.editor GIT configuration variable

2. the EDITOR environment variable

The message and other GIT commit attributes can be modified later using stgrefresh.

AUTHOR AND COMMITTER INFORMATION

The author name (resp. email) to record in the StGIT patch is taken
from the first of the following sources for the information:

1. the --authname (resp. --authemail) or --author flag on command-line

2. the GIT_AUTHOR_NAME (resp. GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL) environment variable

3. the user.name (resp. user.email) GIT configuration variable

Similarly, the committer name (resp. email) is taken from the first of the following sources:

1. the --commname (resp. --commemail) flag on command-line

2. the GIT_COMMITTER_NAME (resp. GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL) environment variable

3. the user.name (resp. user.email) GIT configuration variable

The GIT commit generated by stgrefresh will use these informations when available. If one of them is not available, GIT will pick the value
from your machine´s configuration at that time, as described in
git1[1].

OPTIONS

--message=<message>, -m <message>

Use <message> as the patch description.

--showpatch, -s
Show the patch content in the editor buffer. This flag does nothing if -m is also specified.

--author="Name <email@company>", -a "Name <email@company>"
Use "Name <email@company>" as the author details. This form sets
both authname and authemail.

--authname=<name>
Use <name> as the author name

--authemail=<email>
Use <email> as the author e-mail

--authdate=<date>
Use <date> as the author date

--commname=<name>
Use <name> as the committer name

--commemail=<email>
Use <email> as the committer e-mail

FILES

<templates>/patchdescr.tmpl

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

GIT_AUTHOR_NAME
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
GIT_AUTHOR_DATE
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL
EDITOR

GIT CONFIGURATION VARIABLES

user.name
user.email
stgit.editor

STGIT

Part of the StGIT suite - see git1[2].

NOTES

1. 1

git-commit-tree

2. 1
stg

04/04/2008 STG-NEW(1)