From: Fabian Keil <fk@fabiankeil.de>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 06:25:18 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: developer-manual: Suggest to use the master branch as reference when creating the... 
X-Git-Tag: v_3_0_30~258
X-Git-Url: http://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/%22https:/developer-manual/faq/@default-cgi@edit-actions-list?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e7bedf5f2879b7870a5298c1a23d9bd455d33188;p=privoxy.git

developer-manual: Suggest to use the master branch as reference when creating the ChangeLog

... so the steps work when the current branch differs
from master which is likely as the developer manual
suggests to use a local branch for development.
---

diff --git a/doc/source/developer-manual.sgml b/doc/source/developer-manual.sgml
index da59ea75..73b94ea9 100644
--- a/doc/source/developer-manual.sgml
+++ b/doc/source/developer-manual.sgml
@@ -2295,7 +2295,7 @@ for-privoxy-version=3.0.11
        <programlisting>
   $ git tag
   #   to see the tags
-  $ git log [last release tag]..HEAD &gt; /tmp/log
+  $ git log [last release tag]..master &gt; /tmp/log
   #   get the commit log since the last release
   $ utils/makeChangeLog /tmp/log &gt; /tmp/change.log
   #   reformat the commit log