From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 23:11:26 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Merge branch 'maint'
X-Git-Tag: v1.6.1-rc1~88
X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/550806439402877e6dab22cacfc6de8757d18593?hp=b0a7d111732f644623253927c9ef2d4f3009e668

Merge branch 'maint'

* maint:
format-patch documentation: mention the special case of showing a single commit
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index ac36ce8717..11a7d77261 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ applies to that command line and you do not get "everything
 since the beginning of the time".  If you want to format
 everything since project inception to one commit, say "git
 format-patch \--root <commit>" to make it clear that it is the
-latter case.
+latter case.  If you want to format a single commit, you can do
+this with "git format-patch -1 <commit>".
 
 By default, each output file is numbered sequentially from 1, and uses the
 first line of the commit message (massaged for pathname safety) as