From: Sverre Rabbelier Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:17:54 GMT Subject: Re: obnoxious CLI complaints Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <43d8ce650909101246l50189c97r4f3fc4a8d7a0bd4@mail.gmail.com> Heya, On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 21:46, John Tapsell wrote: > That could be fixed by outputting to a file.  git format-patch outputs > to a file, so why wouldn't git achieve? Because git format-patch works on a per-patch basis, and patches inherently have a 'name' (the first line of the commit message), an entire repository does not, so one would have to resort to arbitrary names such as 'archive.tar.gz' or such. -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier