6 git-format-patch - Prepare patches for e-mail submission.
12 'git-format-patch' [-n | -k] [-o <dir> | --stdout] [-s] [-c] [--mbox]
13 [--diff-options] <his> [<mine>]
17 Prepare each commit with its patch since <mine> head forked from
18 <his> head, one file per patch, for e-mail submission. Each
19 output file is numbered sequentially from 1, and uses the first
20 line of the commit message (massaged for pathname safety) as the
23 When -o is specified, output files are created in that
24 directory; otherwise in the current working directory.
26 When -n is specified, instead of "[PATCH] Subject", the first
27 line is formatted as "[PATCH N/M] Subject", unless you have only
30 When --mbox is specified, the output is formatted to resemble
31 UNIX mailbox format, and can be concatenated together for
32 processing with applymbox.
37 -o|--output-directory <dir>::
38 Use <dir> to store the resulting files, instead of the
39 current working directory.
42 Name output in '[PATCH n/m]' format.
45 Do not strip/add '[PATCH]' from the first line of the
48 -a|--author, -d|--date::
49 Output From: and Date: headers for commits made by
50 yourself as well. Usually these are output only for
51 commits made by people other than yourself.
54 Add `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using
55 the committer identity of yourself.
58 Display suspicious lines in the patch. The definition
59 of 'suspicious lines' is currently the lines that has
60 trailing whitespaces, and the lines whose indentation
61 has a SP character immediately followed by a TAB
65 Format the output files for closer to mbox format by
66 adding a phony Unix "From " line, so they can be
67 concatenated together and fed to `git-applymbox`.
68 Implies --author and --date.
71 This flag generates the mbox formatted output to the
72 standard output, instead of saving them into a file per
73 patch and implies --mbox.
79 git-format-patch -k --stdout R1..R2 | git-am -3 -k::
80 Extract commits between revisions R1 and R2, and apply
81 them on top of the current branch using `git-am` to
84 git-format-patch origin::
85 Extract commits the current branch accumulated since it
86 pulled from origin the last time in a patch form for
89 git-format-patch -M -B origin::
90 The same as the previous one, except detect and handle
91 renames and complete rewrites intelligently to produce
92 renaming patch. A renaming patch reduces the amount of
93 text output, and generally makes it easier to review
94 it. Note that the "patch" program does not understand
95 renaming patch well, so use it only when you know the
96 recipient uses git to apply your patch.
101 gitlink:git-am[1], gitlink:git-send-email[1]
106 Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
110 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
114 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite