[--to=<email>] [--cc=<email>]
[--[no-]cover-letter] [--quiet] [--notes[=<ref>]]
[--interdiff=<previous>]
- [--range-diff=<previous>]
+ [--range-diff=<previous> [--creation-factor=<percent>]]
[--progress]
[<common diff options>]
[ <since> | <revision range> ]
--range-diff=<previous>::
As a reviewer aid, insert a range-diff (see linkgit:git-range-diff[1])
- into the cover letter showing the differences between the previous
+ into the cover letter, or as commentary of the lone patch of a
+ 1-patch series, showing the differences between the previous
version of the patch series and the series currently being formatted.
`previous` can be a single revision naming the tip of the previous
series if it shares a common base with the series being formatted (for
feature/v2`), or a revision range if the two versions of the series are
disjoint (for example `git format-patch --cover-letter
--range-diff=feature/v1~3..feature/v1 -3 feature/v2`).
++
+Note that diff options passed to the command affect how the primary
+product of `format-patch` is generated, and they are not passed to
+the underlying `range-diff` machinery used to generate the cover-letter
+material (this may change in the future).
+
+--creation-factor=<percent>::
+ Used with `--range-diff`, tweak the heuristic which matches up commits
+ between the previous and current series of patches by adjusting the
+ creation/deletion cost fudge factor. See linkgit:git-range-diff[1])
+ for details.
--notes[=<ref>]::
Append the notes (see linkgit:git-notes[1]) for the commit