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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 17 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt index 5e6d5373ad..c9857a2d62 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt @@ -34,13 +34,16 @@ There are two ways to specify which commits to operate on. 2. Generic <revision range> expression (see "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in gitlink:git-rev-parse[1]) means the - commits in the specified range. A single commit, when - interpreted as a <revision range> expression, means - "everything that leads to that commit", but that is taken as - the special case above. If you want to format everything - since project inception to one commit, say "git format-patch - \--root <that-commit>", as showing the root commit as patch - requires \--root option anyway. + commits in the specified range. + +A single commit, when interpreted as a <revision range> +expression, means "everything that leads to that commit", but +if you write 'git format-patch <commit>', the previous rule +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. By default, each output file is numbered sequentially from 1, and uses the first line of the commit message (massaged for pathname safety) as |