Re: [RFC] git-format-patch options

From: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>
Date: Nov 21, 2005, 18:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20051121182737.43012.qmail@web31811.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <43820AF8.5060208@op5.se>

--- Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:

> Here's how to automate it.
> 
> git format-patch $(git rev-list --max-count=2 <commit-ish> | tail -n 
> 1)..<commit-ish>

I've a similar script, called "git-format-commit-patch <commit-ish>" which is slightly more involved.

> Either way, you need to know <commit-ish>, but this format should be 
> fairly easy to add to git-format-patch. If you do, please

How about git-format-patch --commit <commit-ish> to generate the formatted patch of only what _that_ commit introduced? (i.e. <parent>..<commit-ish>)

Do people find this valuable to have?

    Luben
P.S. Since it is really trivial to write such a script
on top of git-rev-list and git-format-patch, it may be
easier to just leave things as they are.  It was just
something I needed, which I thought other people might
need too.