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 | -k] [-o <dir> | --stdout] [-s] [-c] [--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|--output-directory <dir>:: 36 Use <dir> to store the resulting files, instead of the 37 current working directory. 38 39-n|--numbered:: 40 Name output in '[PATCH n/m]' format. 41 42-k|--keep-subject:: 43 Do not strip/add '[PATCH]' from the first line of the 44 commit log message. 45 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. 50 51-s|--signoff:: 52 Add `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using 53 the committer identity of yourself. 54 55-c|--check:: 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 60 character. 61 62-m|--mbox:: 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. 67 68--stdout:: 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. 72 73 74EXAMPLES 75-------- 76 77git-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 80 cherry-pick them. 81 82git-format-patch origin:: 83 Extract commits the current branch accumulated since it 84 pulled from origin the last time in a patch form for 85 e-mail submission. 86 87 88See Also 89-------- 90gitlink:git-am[1], gitlink:git-send-email 91 92 93Author 94------ 95Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 96 97Documentation 98-------------- 99Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 100 101GIT 102--- 103Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 104