From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:18:00 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] format-patch: add --prefix to prepend a prefix to output file names Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4A2E6407.1010402@viscovery.net> 2009/6/9 Johannes Sixt : > 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