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| author |  Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2007-01-17 15:03:39 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2007-01-17 23:48:20 -0800 |
| commit | 917a8f891f1ceeb48609f99ba3b32e022ac766f9 (patch) | |
| tree | cdc42ddfc12ee467291c6bda1a05013b3e9f144e /Documentation | |
| parent | git-format-patch: make --binary on by default (diff) | |
| download | tgif-917a8f891f1ceeb48609f99ba3b32e022ac766f9.tar.xz | |
git-format-patch: the default suffix is now .patch, not .txt
Editors often give easier handling of patch files if the
filename ends with .patch, so use it instead of .txt.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt | 2 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt index 811c6e2e77..e7703a5000 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt @@ -81,9 +81,9 @@ OPTIONS provide a new patch series. --suffix=.<sfx>:: - Instead of using `.txt` as the suffix for generated + Instead of using `.patch` as the suffix for generated filenames, use specifed suffix. A common alternative is - `--suffix=.patch`. + `--suffix=.txt`. + Note that you would need to include the leading dot `.` if you want a filename like `0001-description-of-my-change.patch`, and @@ -93,15 +93,14 @@ not add any suffix. CONFIGURATION ------------- You can specify extra mail header lines to be added to each -message in the repository configuration as follows: +message in the repository configuration. Also you can specify +the default suffix different from the built-in one: +------------ [format] headers = "Organization: git-foo\n" - -You can specify default suffix used: - -[format] - suffix = .patch + suffix = .txt +------------ EXAMPLES diff --git a/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt b/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt index fcd64e9b9b..3b3a5c2e69 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ prepare #2 and #3 for e-mail submission. $ git format-patch master^^ master -This creates two files, 0001-XXXX.txt and 0002-XXXX.txt. Send +This creates two files, 0001-XXXX.patch and 0002-XXXX.patch. Send them out "To: " your project maintainer and "Cc: " your mailing list. You could use contributed script git-send-email if your host has necessary perl modules for this, but your usual |