# [PATCH] Fix docs for format.commitListFormat

1 messages from 2026-04-22 to 2026-04-22. Participants: Mirko Faina.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/65537

## Mirko Faina, 2026-04-22 21:45

Subject: [PATCH] Fix docs for format.commitListFormat
Message-ID: <576d29f15e016889e02c253713656cd8cbf1f04c.1776894255.git.mroik@delayed.space>

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When renaming the option --cover-letter-format to --commit-list-format
we forgot to rename the opton in the section too. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Mirko Faina <mroik@delayed.space>
---
Unfortunately we missed this one before 2.54.

 Documentation/config/format.adoc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/config/format.adoc b/Documentation/config/format.adoc
index dbd186290b..95d19134b2 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/format.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/config/format.adoc
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ format.coverLetter::
 	Default is false.
 
 format.commitListFormat::
-	When the `--cover-letter-format` option is not given, `format-patch`
+	When the `--commit-list-format` option is not given, `format-patch`
 	uses the value of this variable to decide how to format the entry of
 	each commit. Defaults to `shortlog`.
 
-- 
2.54.0


```
