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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-format-patch.txt15
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt2
-rw-r--r--builtin-log.c2
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 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
diff --git a/builtin-log.c b/builtin-log.c
index 930cc0401c..f3cff13edc 100644
--- a/builtin-log.c
+++ b/builtin-log.c
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ static int istitlechar(char c)
static char *extra_headers = NULL;
static int extra_headers_size = 0;
-static const char *fmt_patch_suffix = ".txt";
+static const char *fmt_patch_suffix = ".patch";
static int git_format_config(const char *var, const char *value)
{