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Re: diffstat and signoff in git-format-patch

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RWRobert Wohlrab <robert.wohlrab@gmx.de>
Date
Sep 12, 2009, 18:29 UTC
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<200909122029.30220.robert.wohlrab@gmx.de>
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<20090912181919.GA20561@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 05:17:57PM +0200, Robert Wohlrab wrote:
> > > 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)?

Thanks. I am currently playing with it and i think that I can create what I want with it.

-- 
Robert Wohlrab
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