Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 28, 2008, 14:44 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0808280744q7ab0aa9l2064117c4e147351@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080828065124.GB16186@elte.hu>

2008/8/28 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>:

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> * Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> 'git show' is quite sufficient, as long as I can pipe its output into
>> patch(1) or write it to a foo.patch file, which appears to be the
>> case.
>
> the only time git show is not sufficient for me in practice, the
> following one is:
>
>  git log --pretty=email -p -1
>

"git show --pretty=email", indeed 8-)

> that's when i want to do precise import/export of patches from/to email.
> (but it's rare)

But it does not export them "precisely". You get no patch for merges (even if there were changes). Try using "git format-patch --stdout" (or with "-o <directory>" instead of "--stdout", to split in patches).