From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Dan McGee" <dpmcgee@gmail.com>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-format-patch(1)- add note about creating patch for single commit
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:33:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vwsg587y7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <449c10960810182226t5e2ae1ay4b53656a7cac4606@mail.gmail.com> (Dan McGee's message of "Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:26:35 -0500")
"Dan McGee" <dpmcgee@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> 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>" .
I thought about it, but saw "formatting three commits" example in the
manpage, and stopped there ;-)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-19 5:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-19 4:54 [PATCH] git-format-patch(1)- add note about creating patch for single commit Dan McGee
2008-10-19 5:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-19 5:26 ` Dan McGee
2008-10-19 5:33 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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