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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-11-02 20:45:55 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-11-02 20:45:55 -0800 |
| commit | 16088d8870b7da6d4dd280be2d1728dd3be346b5 (patch) | |
| tree | 8d74f2788dd2d6bc98d806024ed5e756ca1b953b /Documentation | |
| parent | a5a323f33cd25829e0dde3939b196cf743d7d9d8 (diff) | |
| download | git-16088d8870b7da6d4dd280be2d1728dd3be346b5.tar.gz git-16088d8870b7da6d4dd280be2d1728dd3be346b5.tar.xz | |
format-patch documentation: mention the special case of showing a single commit
Even long timers seem to have missed that "format-patch -1 $commit" is a
much simpler and more obvious way to say "format-patch $commit^..$commit"
from the current documentation (and an example "format-patch -3 $commit"
to get three patches). Add an explicit instruction in a much earlier part
of the documentation to make it easier to find.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt index adb4ea7b1..7426109f6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt @@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ 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. +latter case. If you want to format a single commit, 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 |