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Re: How does format-patch determine the filename of the patch?

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JRJoshua Roys <roysjosh@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 29, 2009, 13:14 UTC
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On 10/29/2009 09:05 AM, Timur Tabi wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Robin Rosenberg
> <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>  wrote:
>
>>> The reason I ask is that I'm writing a script which calls
>>> git-format-patch to create some patches for post-processing.  So I
>>> need the name of the file that git-format-patch creates so that I can
>>> open it and examine it.  I'd liked to see if there's a way to get the
>>> name of the patch without actually creating the file.
>>
>> It tells you the names on stdout.
>
> Is there a way for it to tell me the name on stdout *without* actually
> creating the patch?
>
Hello,

Is there any way you can just save the names from when you do call format-patch?

e.g. ... my @filenames = qx(git format-patch $opts); ...

Josh
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  1. Timur TabiOct 15, 2009
  2. Thomas RastOct 15, 2009
  3. Robin RosenbergOct 15, 2009
  4. Timur TabiOct 29, 2009
  5. Joshua RoysOct 29, 2009

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