From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timur Tabi Subject: Re: How does format-patch determine the filename of the patch? Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:05:21 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200910151959.47778.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Robin Rosenberg X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 29 14:05:30 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N3Uh0-0007Ov-3J for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:05:30 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753319AbZJ2NFT convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:05:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752899AbZJ2NFT (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:05:19 -0400 Received: from gv-out-0910.google.com ([216.239.58.191]:42913 "EHLO gv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752793AbZJ2NFR convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:05:17 -0400 Received: by gv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id r4so246649gve.37 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:05:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=6sWwtROAtSkx9/qqpRAuDJ1H12lIdCz4i2OWNNJCx54=; b=l1/W9owJOrh6pCjFIurYr9zV3giMyt2WHagP+6UTKsmMCTM/m1NBeV7YwNVqzqy9j+ ymuk/q79VJsk51Y8c/jm5uoFxoJttRnr59eEmAfwcrXtBCDBEirj6nR9ypk+bFJxGUOl KIk+roBV/qVjio8PK46O4UPlACnyrZwF73V/A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=Mp+7R+zuYDpQh1CleYun2UrLGF3hkewwVIzpM7PZ9pkQGPNICHltQX2FFe3/8RpskP rAnwRLp95/w1xznVtIWsjOb5Eg/xv6DsvPDuZPEJv4EnPQg6cFdYJfdscojg+VgDQD9S J78I7huLTt9Zu3dFKUVvpfG0QT8V2zXDJactY= Received: by 10.239.168.138 with SMTP id k10mr1597hbe.100.1256821521714; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:05:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200910151959.47778.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 72fdc951929eeb29 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Robin Rosenberg wrote: >> The reason I ask is that I'm writing a script which calls >> git-format-patch to create some patches for post-processing. =A0So I >> need the name of the file that git-format-patch creates so that I ca= n >> open it and examine it. =A0I'd liked to see if there's a way to get = the >> name of the patch without actually creating the file. > > It tells you the names on stdout. Is there a way for it to tell me the name on stdout *without* actually creating the patch? --=20 Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale