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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-11-04 15:11:26 -0800
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-11-04 15:11:26 -0800
commit550806439402877e6dab22cacfc6de8757d18593 (patch)
tree5800b95cea9adea66f3c6b0f392ff1cb59b69063 /Documentation
parentcontrib/hooks/post-receive-email: Make revision display configurable (diff)
parentformat-patch documentation: mention the special case of showing a single commit (diff)
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Merge branch 'maint'
* maint: format-patch documentation: mention the special case of showing a single commit
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index ac36ce8717..11a7d77261 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
@@ -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