Re: [PATCH] format-patch: add --prefix to prepend a prefix to output file names

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 9, 2009, 23:18 UTC
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0906091618l406116d8k307f6661b451d030@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A2E6407.1010402@viscovery.net>

2009/6/9 Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>:

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> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy schrieb:
>> I use git to manages patches in my Gentoo development. In Gentoo,
>> all ebuilds (another form of RPM spec) corresponding to different
>> versions of the same package are grouped into one directory. So patches
>> for each versions usually have a prefix to separate them from the ones
>> for other versions. With --prefix it comes handy to produce such patches,
>> for example:
>>
>> git format-patch --prefix dbus-1.2.3- HEAD~5
>>
>> will generate patches for dbus-1.2.3 for me, all starting with "dbus-1.2.3-".
>
> Can't you use --output-directory/-o? It is not the same, but almost.

-o seems to put slash at the end (in reopen_stdout()) but I don't want to create another directory.

-- 
Duy