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| author | Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> | 2009-03-26 18:29:25 +0100 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-03-27 00:38:01 -0700 |
| commit | 2d266f9d623625e0a28fbe3c3615707500e9448f (patch) | |
| tree | 2bc21a604597cb9336701548b288fc1599835984 /Documentation | |
| parent | 5d83f9c19810229bb765ef63864e4f252e83ad61 (diff) | |
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Documentation: format-patch --root clarifications
Users were confused about the meaning and use of the --root option.
Notably, since 68c2ec7 (format-patch: show patch text for the root
commit, 2009-01-10), --root has nothing to do with showing the patch
text for the root commit any more.
Shorten and clarify the corresponding paragraph in the DESCRIPTION
section, document --root under OPTIONS, and add an explicit note that
root commits are formatted regardless.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 21 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt index 11a7d7726..1f577b801 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt @@ -39,15 +39,11 @@ There are two ways to specify which commits to operate on. REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]) means the commits in the specified range. -A single commit, when interpreted as a <revision range> -expression, means "everything that leads to that commit", but -if you write 'git format-patch <commit>', the previous rule -applies to that command line and you do not get "everything -since the beginning of the time". If you want to format -everything since project inception to one commit, say "git -format-patch \--root <commit>" to make it clear that it is the -latter case. If you want to format a single commit, you can do -this with "git format-patch -1 <commit>". +The first rule takes precedence in the case of a single <commit>. To +apply the second rule, i.e., format everything since the beginning of +history up until <commit>, use the '\--root' option: "git format-patch +\--root <commit>". If you want to format only <commit> itself, you +can do this with "git format-patch -1 <commit>". By default, each output file is numbered sequentially from 1, and uses the first line of the commit message (massaged for pathname safety) as @@ -170,6 +166,13 @@ not add any suffix. applied. By default the contents of changes in those files are encoded in the patch. +--root:: + Treat the revision argument as a <revision range>, even if it + is just a single commit (that would normally be treated as a + <since>). Note that root commits included in the specified + range are always formatted as creation patches, independently + of this flag. + CONFIGURATION ------------- You can specify extra mail header lines to be added to each message |