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git-format-patch(1)
===================
NAME
----
git-format-patch - Prepare patches for e-mail submission.
SYNOPSIS
--------
'git-format-patch' [-n | -k] [-o <dir> | --stdout] [-s] [-c] [--mbox] [--diff-options] <his> [<mine>]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
Prepare each commit with its patch since <mine> head forked from
<his> head, one file per patch, for e-mail submission. Each
output file is numbered sequentially from 1, and uses the first
line of the commit message (massaged for pathname safety) as the
filename.
When -o is specified, output files are created in that
directory; otherwise in the current working directory.
When -n is specified, instead of "[PATCH] Subject", the first
line is formatted as "[PATCH N/M] Subject", unless you have only
one patch.
When --mbox is specified, the output is formatted to resemble
UNIX mailbox format, and can be concatenated together for
processing with applymbox.
OPTIONS
-------
-o|--output-directory <dir>::
Use <dir> to store the resulting files, instead of the
current working directory.
-n|--numbered::
Name output in '[PATCH n/m]' format.
-k|--keep-subject::
Do not strip/add '[PATCH]' from the first line of the
commit log message.
-a|--author, -d|--date::
Output From: and Date: headers for commits made by
yourself as well. Usually these are output only for
commits made by people other than yourself.
-s|--signoff::
Add `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using
the committer identity of yourself.
-c|--check::
Display suspicious lines in the patch. The definition
of 'suspicious lines' is currently the lines that has
trailing whitespaces, and the lines whose indentation
has a SP character immediately followed by a TAB
character.
-m|--mbox::
Format the output files for closer to mbox format by
adding a phony Unix "From " line, so they can be
concatenated together and fed to `git-applymbox`.
Implies --author and --date.
--stdout::
This flag generates the mbox formatted output to the
standard output, instead of saving them into a file per
patch and implies --mbox.
EXAMPLES
--------
git-format-patch -k --stdout R1..R2 | git-am -3 -k::
Extract commits between revisions R1 and R2, and apply
them on top of the current branch using `git-am` to
cherry-pick them.
git-format-patch origin::
Extract commits the current branch accumulated since it
pulled from origin the last time in a patch form for
e-mail submission.
See Also
--------
gitlink:git-am[1], gitlink:git-send-email
Author
------
Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Documentation
--------------
Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
GIT
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Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
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