doc/contributing: Fix git format-patch topic branch example

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@pond.sub.org>

diff --git a/doc/contributing b/doc/contributing
index 1cbbeb1fbc3834a2638ddafa872021aa9821b158..2404db743a9422bc3dfd80140a979f2becb6f6d6 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/contributing
+++ b/doc/contributing
@@ -155,9 +155,9 @@ If you want to submit a single commit, prepare it like this:
 This produces a file 0001-<subject>.patch, where <subject> is derived
 from the first line of the commit message.
 
-If you want to submit a a whole topic branch based on master, do:
+If you want to submit a whole topic branch based on master, do:
 
-    $ git format-patch -ns --cover-letter
+    $ git format-patch -ns --cover-letter master
 
 This produces 0000-cover-letter.patch 0001-<subject1>.patch
 0002-<subject2>.patch and so on.  Edit 0000-cover-letter.patch so it