From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:11:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] git-format-patch options
Message-ID: <43821BE7.5000306@michonline.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051121182737.43012.qmail@web31811.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Luben Tuikov wrote:
> --- Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Here's how to automate it.
>>
>>git format-patch $(git rev-list --max-count=2 <commit-ish> | tail -n 
>>1)..<commit-ish>
> 
> 
> I've a similar script, called
> "git-format-commit-patch <commit-ish>" which is slightly
> more involved.
> 
> 
>>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
> 
> 
> How about git-format-patch --commit <commit-ish>
> to generate the formatted patch of only what _that_ commit
> introduced? (i.e. <parent>..<commit-ish>)

Doesn't git-format-patch $commit^1..$commit do what you want?