From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sergei Organov Subject: Where man git-format-patch sends me? Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:58:43 +0300 Message-ID: <87lk9i2hkc.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 01 14:59:07 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1InaZd-0000kQ-HK for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:59:05 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753541AbXKAN6v (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:58:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753421AbXKAN6v (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:58:51 -0400 Received: from javad.com ([216.122.176.236]:4718 "EHLO javad.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753419AbXKAN6u (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:58:50 -0400 Received: from osv ([87.236.81.130]) by javad.com (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id lA1Dwmm50339 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 13:58:49 GMT (envelope-from s.organov@javad.com) Received: from osv by osv with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1InaZH-00023A-6Z for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:58:43 +0300 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: $ man git-format-patch [...] OPTIONS -p Generate patch (see section on generating patches) -u Synonym for "-p". [...] $ 1. Saying "-p generates patch" suggests that without -p git-format-patch will generate something else. It's rather confusing. 2. Where is this "section on generating patches"? I thought it could be in man git-diff, but it is not. -- Sergei.