1git-format-patch(1) 2=================== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-format-patch - Prepare patches for e-mail submission. 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git-format-patch' [-n][-o <dir>|--stdout][-k][--mbox][--diff-options] <his> [<mine>] 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15Prepare each commit with its patch since <mine> head forked from 16<his> head, one file per patch, for e-mail submission. Each 17output file is numbered sequentially from 1, and uses the first 18line of the commit message (massaged for pathname safety) as the 19filename. 20 21When -o is specified, output files are created in that 22directory; otherwise in the current working directory. 23 24When -n is specified, instead of "[PATCH] Subject", the first 25line is formatted as "[PATCH N/M] Subject", unless you have only 26one patch. 27 28When --mbox is specified, the output is formatted to resemble 29UNIX mailbox format, and can be concatenated together for 30processing with applymbox. 31 32 33OPTIONS 34------- 35-o <dir>:: 36 Use <dir> to store the resulting files, instead of the 37 current working directory. 38 39-n:: 40 Name output in '[PATCH n/m]' format. 41 42-k:: 43 Do not strip/add '[PATCH]' from the first line of the 44 commit log message. 45 46--author, --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. 50 51--mbox:: 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. 56 57--stdout:: 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. 61 62 63EXAMPLES 64-------- 65 66git-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 69 cherry-pick them. 70 71git-format-patch origin:: 72 Extract commits the current branch accumulated since it 73 pulled from origin the last time in a patch form for 74 e-mail submission. 75 76 77See Also 78-------- 79gitlink:git-am[1], gitlink:git-send-email 80 81 82Author 83------ 84Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 85 86Documentation 87-------------- 88Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 89 90GIT 91--- 92Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 93