How to create patches for a merge?

When I use "git format-patch", it doesn't seem to include merges. How can I perform a merge and then e-mail it to someone as a set of patches?

For example, let's say that I merge two branches and perform another commit on top of the merge:

git init

echo "initial file" > test.txt git add test.txt git commit -m "Commit A"

git checkout -b foo master echo "foo" > test.txt git commit -a -m "Commit B"

git checkout -b bar master echo "bar" > test.txt git commit -a -m "Commit C"

git merge foo echo "foobar" > test.txt git commit -a -m "Commit M"

echo "2nd line" >> test.txt git commit -a -m "Commit D"

This creates the following tree:

    B
  /   \
A       M - D
  \   /
    C

Now I try to checkout the initial commit and replay the above changes:

git checkout -b replay master git format-patch --stdout master..bar | git am -3

This produces a merge conflict. In this scenario, "git format-patch master..bar" only produces 3 patches, omitting "Commit M". How do I deal with this?

-Geoffrey Lee