[PATCH] Document the config variable format.suffix

From

Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Date

Mar 3, 2007, 23:17 UTC

Message-ID

<Pine.LNX.4.63.0703040016500.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>

---

 Documentation/config.txt |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index b809772..5408dd6 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -348,6 +348,11 @@ format.headers::
 	Additional email headers to include in a patch to be submitted
 	by mail.  See gitlink:git-format-patch[1].
 
+format.suffix::
+	The default for format-patch is to output files with the suffix
+	`.patch`. Use this variable to change that suffix (make sure to
+	include the dot if you want it).
+
 gc.packrefs::
 	`git gc` does not run `git pack-refs` in a bare repository by
 	default so that older dumb-transport clients can still fetch