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SubmittingPatches: mention doc-diff

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We already advise people to make sure their documentation
formats correctly. Let's point them at the doc-diff script,
which can help with that.

Let's also put a brief note in the script about its purpose,
since that otherwise can only be found in the original
commit message. Along with the existing -h/usage text,
that's hopefully enough for developers to make use of it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jeff King 2018-08-21 15:23:22 -04:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -80,7 +80,9 @@ GitHub-Travis CI hints section for details.
Do not forget to update the documentation to describe the updated
behavior and make sure that the resulting documentation set formats
well. It is currently a liberal mixture of US and UK English norms for
well (try the Documentation/doc-diff script).
We currently have a liberal mixture of US and UK English norms for
spelling and grammar, which is somewhat unfortunate. A huge patch that
touches the files all over the place only to correct the inconsistency
is not welcome, though. Potential clashes with other changes that can

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@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
#!/bin/sh
#
# Build two documentation trees and diff the resulting formatted output.
# Compared to a source diff, this can reveal mistakes in the formatting.
# For example:
#
# ./doc-diff origin/master HEAD
#
# would show the differences introduced by a branch based on master.
OPTIONS_SPEC="\
doc-diff [options] <from> <to> [-- <diff-options>]