Re: diffstat and signoff in git-format-patch

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sep 12, 2009, 18:19 UTC
Message-ID: <20090912181919.GA20561@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <200909121717.57896.robert.wohlrab@gmx.de>

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 05:17:57PM +0200, Robert Wohlrab wrote:

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> > Hi,
> > I am currently trying to use git-format-patch in a script to generate files
> > which must be in a special format. This means that I have to override also
> > changes by users. This is as far as I can see suffix, signoff and some
> >  more. Most of the stuff works, but I cannot get away the signoff message
> >  as their is nothing like --no-signoff and the -p option which should be
> >  disable generation of diffstat doesn't do anything. How can I disable them
> >  anyway?
> > git version 1.6.3.3
> And can i disable this "--\n1.6.3.3" at the end of the patch?

format-patch isn't very configurable in its output. Maybe you want to just do:

  git log -1 --pretty=email -p

instead (or if you want to tweak the format even further, try --pretty=format)?

-Peff