Re: format-patch: numbered patches from a patch list?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jul 22, 2009, 02:44 UTC
Message-ID: <20090722024445.GA31254@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <auto-000020035874@sci.utah.edu>

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 08:25:52PM -0600, tom fogal wrote:

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> I have a need to generate a numbered sequence of patches from a sparse
> sprinkling of patches on a branch.  Is there a way to accomplish this?
> 
> Basically I want to say, `for the patches at the heads of these sha1s,
> give me a numbered sequence.'  Currently I take the list of shas that I
> want, throw them in a file, and loop over each entry:
> 
>   for sha in $(cat patches) ; do git format-patch -o a/ ${sha}^..${sha} ; done
> 
> This is undesirable because each patch is the first patch in a series,
> e.g. "0001-...".  A desirable interface would be specifying multiple
> disconnected ranges via some separator, say ",".

Try

  git format-patch --no-walk $(cat patches)

-Peff