From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:03:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the next CLI revamp
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810301301510.13034@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20081030163056.GA8899@mit.edu>

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Theodore Tso wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:43:21PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > 
> > git format-patch origin/next.. works already. I'm used to the asymetric
> > git format-patch origin/next syntax, and I would be sorry if it
> > disappeared though, and I see no really good reason to get rid of it.
> 
> The reason why it annoys me is because I often what to cherry-pick a
> single patch to send to someone, and so while "git show 332d2e78"
> shows me the patch, but if I want to use git-send-email for that
> particular patch, "git format-patch 332d2e78" doesn't DTRT.  I have to
> type "git format-patch 332d2e78^..332d2e78" instead.

try:

	git show --pretty=email 332d2e78


Nicolas