From: Timur Tabi Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:05:21 GMT Subject: Re: How does format-patch determine the filename of the patch? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200910151959.47778.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Robin Rosenberg wrote: >> The reason I ask is that I'm writing a script which calls >> git-format-patch to create some patches for post-processing.  So I >> need the name of the file that git-format-patch creates so that I can >> open it and examine it.  I'd liked to see if there's a way to get the >> name of the patch without actually creating the file. > > It tells you the names on stdout. Is there a way for it to tell me the name on stdout *without* actually creating the patch? -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale