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| author | Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de> | 2023-08-21 19:07:20 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2023-08-21 15:03:47 -0700 |
| commit | 67f4b36e339d91c06ff9cdc254864c830158e10f (patch) | |
| tree | 9669710eb67178297355fdacfa2b016e2309797a /Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | |
| parent | fac96dfbb1c24369ba7d37a5affd8adfe6c650fd (diff) | |
| download | git-67f4b36e339d91c06ff9cdc254864c830158e10f.tar.gz | |
format-patch: add --description-file option
This patch makes it possible to directly feed a branch description to
derive the cover letter from. The use case is formatting dynamically
created temporary commits which are not referenced anywhere.
The most obvious alternative would be creating a temporary branch and
setting a description on it, but that doesn't seem particularly elegant.
Signed-off-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt index 373b46fc0d..8e515c7dbb 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt @@ -215,6 +215,10 @@ is greater than 100 bytes, then the mode will be `message`, otherwise If `<mode>` is `none`, both the cover letter subject and body will be populated with placeholder text. +--description-file=<file>:: + Use the contents of <file> instead of the branch's description + for generating the cover letter. + --subject-prefix=<subject prefix>:: Instead of the standard '[PATCH]' prefix in the subject line, instead use '[<subject prefix>]'. This |