From: Johannes Sixt Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:30:47 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] format-patch: add --prefix to prepend a prefix to output file names Message-ID: <4A2E6407.1010402@viscovery.net> In-Reply-To: <1244547227-6466-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy schrieb: > I use git to manages patches in my Gentoo development. In Gentoo, > all ebuilds (another form of RPM spec) corresponding to different > versions of the same package are grouped into one directory. So patches > for each versions usually have a prefix to separate them from the ones > for other versions. With --prefix it comes handy to produce such patches, > for example: > > git format-patch --prefix dbus-1.2.3- HEAD~5 > > will generate patches for dbus-1.2.3 for me, all starting with "dbus-1.2.3-". Can't you use --output-directory/-o? It is not the same, but almost. -- Hannes