From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 22:26:29 GMT
Subject: Re: git-format-patch little gripe
Message-ID: <7v3b905fqi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20061103195253.9244.qmail@web31814.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com> writes:

> Also I doubt how many people actually have coded in their scripts
> "git-format-patch <sha-1>" to mead by default "<sha-1>..HEAD" -- I'd think
> that maintainers always want to know the "end point" and would always
> use the <a>..<b> format, instead of presuming where/what their HEAD is.

Well, the answer would be "do not script around Porcelain".

> Sorry it's my rant.  I know it's not your fault.

I do not even think there is any "fault" there, to be honest, so
there is no need to apologize.  The format-patch command does
what it was designed to do and does it well -- format a sequence
of patches for upstream submission.

If you want a single patch, you can always say "git show", by
the way.