6 git-format-patch - Prepare patches for e-mail submission.
11 'git-format-patch' [-n | -k] [-o <dir> | --stdout] [-s] [-c] [--mbox] [--diff-options] <his> [<mine>]
15 Prepare each commit with its patch since <mine> head forked from
16 <his> head, one file per patch, for e-mail submission. Each
17 output file is numbered sequentially from 1, and uses the first
18 line of the commit message (massaged for pathname safety) as the
21 When -o is specified, output files are created in that
22 directory; otherwise in the current working directory.
24 When -n is specified, instead of "[PATCH] Subject", the first
25 line is formatted as "[PATCH N/M] Subject", unless you have only
28 When --mbox is specified, the output is formatted to resemble
29 UNIX mailbox format, and can be concatenated together for
30 processing with applymbox.
35 -o|--output-directory <dir>::
36 Use <dir> to store the resulting files, instead of the
37 current working directory.
40 Name output in '[PATCH n/m]' format.
43 Do not strip/add '[PATCH]' from the first line of the
46 -a|--author, -d|--date::
47 Output From: and Date: headers for commits made by
48 yourself as well. Usually these are output only for
49 commits made by people other than yourself.
52 Add `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using
53 the committer identity of yourself.
56 Display suspicious lines in the patch. The definition
57 of 'suspicious lines' is currently the lines that has
58 trailing whitespaces, and the lines whose indentation
59 has a SP character immediately followed by a TAB
63 Format the output files for closer to mbox format by
64 adding a phony Unix "From " line, so they can be
65 concatenated together and fed to `git-applymbox`.
66 Implies --author and --date.
69 This flag generates the mbox formatted output to the
70 standard output, instead of saving them into a file per
71 patch and implies --mbox.
77 git-format-patch -k --stdout R1..R2 | git-am -3 -k::
78 Extract commits between revisions R1 and R2, and apply
79 them on top of the current branch using `git-am` to
82 git-format-patch origin::
83 Extract commits the current branch accumulated since it
84 pulled from origin the last time in a patch form for
87 git-format-patch -M -B origin::
88 The same as the previous one, except detect and handle
89 renames and complete rewrites intelligently to produce
90 renaming patch. A renaming patch reduces the amount of
91 text output, and generally makes it easier to review
92 it. Note that the "patch" program does not understand
93 renaming patch well, so use it only when you know the
94 recipient uses git to apply your patch.
99 gitlink:git-am[1], gitlink:git-send-email
104 Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
108 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
112 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite