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Re: [PATCH] git-format-patch(1)- add note about creating patch for single commit

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 19, 2008, 05:21 UTC
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Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> writes:
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> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>
> ---
>
> I thought this would be helpful because it took me the beter part of an hour
> to find a solution instead of specifying C~1..C or other crazy things. The
> current documentation just leaves you hanging when what you really want is
> just one formatted patch.
>
> If there any suggestions on better wording, feel free to resubmit or whatever-
> I just felt like this should be documented somewhere.
>
>  Documentation/git-format-patch.txt |    4 +++-
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
> index adb4ea7..8518c33 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
> @@ -46,7 +46,9 @@ applies to that command line and you do not get "everything
>  since the beginning of the time".  If you want to format
>  everything since project inception to one commit, say "git
>  format-patch \--root <commit>" to make it clear that it is the
> -latter case.
> +latter case.  If you want to format only a single commit, say "git
> +format-patch <commit>^!" (which excludes all parent revisions of the
> +specified commit).
>  
>  By default, each output file is numbered sequentially from 1, and uses the
>  first line of the commit message (massaged for pathname safety) as
Heh, a more natural way to say that is:
	git format-patch -1 $that_one
That uses the first option described in the documentation:
	-<n>::
        	Limits the number of patches to prepare.
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