6 git-format-patch - Prepare patches for e-mail submission.
11 'git-format-patch' [-n][-o <dir>|--stdout][-k][--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.
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
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 Format the output files for closer to mbox format by
53 adding a phony Unix "From " line, so they can be
54 concatenated together and fed to `git-applymbox`.
55 Implies --author and --date.
58 This flag generates the mbox formatted output to the
59 standard output, instead of saving them into a file per
60 patch and implies --mbox.
66 git-format-patch -k --stdout R1..R2 | git-am -3 -k::
67 Extract commits between revisions R1 and R2, and apply
68 them on top of the current branch using `git-am` to
71 git-format-patch origin::
72 Extract commits the current branch accumulated since it
73 pulled from origin the last time in a patch form for
79 gitlink:git-am[1], gitlink:git-send-email
84 Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
88 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
92 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite