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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] format-patch: add --prefix to prepend a prefix to output file names
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:30:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A2E6407.1010402@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1244547227-6466-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy schrieb:
> I use git to manages patches in my Gentoo development. In Gentoo,
> all ebuilds (another form of RPM spec) corresponding to different
> versions of the same package are grouped into one directory. So patches
> for each versions usually have a prefix to separate them from the ones
> for other versions. With --prefix it comes handy to produce such patches,
> for example:
> 
> git format-patch --prefix dbus-1.2.3- HEAD~5
> 
> will generate patches for dbus-1.2.3 for me, all starting with "dbus-1.2.3-".

Can't you use --output-directory/-o? It is not the same, but almost.

-- Hannes

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-09 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-09 11:33 [PATCH] format-patch: add --prefix to prepend a prefix to output file names Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2009-06-09 12:37 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-06-09 23:14   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2009-06-10 10:28   ` [PATCH] format-patch: add --filename-prefix " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2009-06-10 10:51     ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-10 10:56       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2009-06-10 15:58     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-14  7:10       ` Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2009-06-14  8:25         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-14  8:29         ` Stephen Boyd
2009-06-14  8:59           ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-14 19:46             ` Stephen Boyd
2009-06-14 23:32           ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2009-06-09 13:30 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2009-06-09 23:18   ` [PATCH] format-patch: add --prefix " Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy

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