kernel
/
git
mirror of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
1
0
Fork 0
Code Releases Activity

Merge branch 'maint' 

* maint:
  format-patch documentation: mention the special case of showing a single commit
maint
Junio C Hamano 2008-11-04 15:11:26 -08:00
parent b0a7d11173 16088d8870
commit 5508064394
1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

3
Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
View File

@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ applies to that command line and you do not get "everything
since the beginning of the time". If you want to format
everything since project inception to one commit, say "git
format-patch \--root <commit>" to make it clear that it is the
latter case.
latter case. If you want to format a single commit, you can do
this with "git format-patch -1 <commit>".

By default, each output file is numbered sequentially from 1, and uses the
first line of the commit message (massaged for pathname safety) as