Re: [RFC] git-format-patch options

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Nov 21, 2005, 17:59 UTC
Message-ID: <43820AF8.5060208@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <20051121173603.73700.qmail@web31806.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Luben Tuikov wrote:

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> --- Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Please don't. git-format-patch is generally used to send 
> 
> 
> Ok, so then when I want to extract a single commit into a patch in a patch format, I loosely do
> (scripted):
> 
>   git-rev-list --pretty=raw --max-count=1 <commit-ish>
> 
> Then I record the parent <parent> of the commit-ish and do:
> 
>   git-format-patch [output options] <parent>..<commit-ish>
> 
> Which gives me the commit with id <commit-ish> as a
> formatted patch.
> 
> Is there an alernative to this, as opposed to the two
> step procedure above?
>

Here's how to automate it.

git format-patch $(git rev-list --max-count=2 <commit-ish> | tail -n 1)..<commit-ish>

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 let the user specify the --max-count (but default to 1) so it can be used to extract a series of patches rather than just one.

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