From: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:25:40 GMT
Subject: [RFC] git-format-patch options
Message-ID: <20051121162540.4722.qmail@web31812.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

It is often the case that "since <mine> head forked from
<his> head" (quoting the manual page of git-format-patch),
for various projects, some patches have been accepted and
some have not.

I was wondering about the value of

  git-format-patch <commit-ish>

to output/prepare a diff patch between the indicated commit
and its parent.  As opposed to the current behaviour giving
all changes between the indicated commit and HEAD.

So in effect the form above would become the trivial:

  git-format-patch <commit-ish>..HEAD

and

  git-format-patch <commit-ish>

would give the diff patch between the indicated commit and
its parent.

?

    Luben