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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 3 |
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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 |