# [PATCH] Document the config variable format.suffix 1 messages from 2007-03-03 to 2007-03-03. Participants: Johannes Schindelin. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/7074 ## Johannes Schindelin, 2007-03-03 23:17 Subject: [PATCH] Document the config variable format.suffix Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.63.0703040016500.22628%40wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de ``` Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin --- Documentation/config.txt | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index b809772..5408dd6 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -348,6 +348,11 @@ format.headers:: Additional email headers to include in a patch to be submitted by mail. See gitlink:git-format-patch[1]. +format.suffix:: + The default for format-patch is to output files with the suffix + `.patch`. Use this variable to change that suffix (make sure to + include the dot if you want it). + gc.packrefs:: `git gc` does not run `git pack-refs` in a bare repository by default so that older dumb-transport clients can still fetch ```