Re: [PATCH] git-format-patch(1)- add note about creating patch for single commit

["Dan McGee" <dpmcgee@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>
>> I thought this would be helpful because it took me the beter part of an hour
>> to find a solution instead of specifying C~1..C or other crazy things. The
>> current documentation just leaves you hanging when what you really want is
>> just one formatted patch.
>>
>> If there any suggestions on better wording, feel free to resubmit or whatever-
>> I just felt like this should be documented somewhere.
>>
>>  Documentation/git-format-patch.txt |    4 +++-
>>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
>> index adb4ea7..8518c33 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
>> @@ -46,7 +46,9 @@ 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 only a single commit, say "git
>> +format-patch <commit>^!" (which excludes all parent revisions of the
>> +specified 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
>
> Heh, a more natural way to say that is:
>
>        git format-patch -1 $that_one
>
> That uses the first option described in the documentation:
>
>        -<n>::
>                Limits the number of patches to prepare.

Wow, had no idea about that option. :)

Given that I didn't even notice this option when I did go to the
manpage, what if my above change was instead reworked a bit:
>> +latter case.  If you want to format only a single commit, say "git
>> +format-patch -1 <commit>" .