From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:48:47 GMT
Subject: Re: How does format-patch determine the filename of the patch?
Message-ID: <200910151948.48539.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <ed82fe3e0910150917u72ef189epc74411e71a9cd2d4@mail.gmail.com>

Timur Tabi wrote:
> Hi.  I'm not familiar with the git source code, so forgive me if this
> is a dumb question.  I'm trying to determine the algorithm that
> git-format-patch uses to determine the name of the patch file it
> creates (e.g. "0001-this-is-my-patch-without-spaces-and-trunca.patch")
>  I'm looking at the function cmd_format_patch(), and I just don't see
> where it creates any files.  Can someone show me where this code is?

get_patch_filename() in log-tree.c, but the bulk of the work is done
in the call out to format_commit_message() [pretty.c] with the "%f"
format, which is in turn handled by format_sanitized_subject()
[pretty.c].

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch