From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:43:57 GMT
Subject: Re: format-patch: numbered patches from a patch list?
Message-ID: <7vtz15wi6q.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <auto-000020035874@sci.utah.edu>

tom fogal <tfogal@alumni.unh.edu> writes:

> I have a need to generate a numbered sequence of patches from a sparse
> sprinkling of patches on a branch.  Is there a way to accomplish this?
>
> Basically I want to say, `for the patches at the heads of these sha1s,
> give me a numbered sequence.'  Currently I take the list of shas that I
> want, throw them in a file, and loop over each entry:
>
>   for sha in $(cat patches) ; do git format-patch -o a/ ${sha}^..${sha} ; done

You can pass --start-number to these invocations of format-patch; maintain
the parameter to give as an argument to the option inside your loop.