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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-01-26 15:40:30 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-01-26 15:40:30 -0800 |
| commit | b2ed5ae80a1b45ac00c4c891e693ffcde34a9347 (patch) | |
| tree | c71994f5b195a1c0d6e709e912fdce63b5c47b4e /Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | |
| parent | c7dd1c5818111a86deffde1190b57d07efbeed0a (diff) | |
| parent | bc6bf2d7641d6c2450b347d5a0b2f954728bf4d9 (diff) | |
| download | git-b2ed5ae80a1b45ac00c4c891e693ffcde34a9347.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'ak/format-patch-odir-config'
"git format-patch" learned to notice format.outputDirectory
configuration variable. This allows "-o <dir>" option to be
omitted on the command line if you always use the same directory in
your workflow.
* ak/format-patch-odir-config:
format-patch: introduce format.outputDirectory configuration
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-format-patch.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt index b149e09065..6821441d7d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt @@ -57,7 +57,11 @@ The names of the output files are printed to standard output, unless the `--stdout` option is specified. If `-o` is specified, output files are created in <dir>. Otherwise -they are created in the current working directory. +they are created in the current working directory. The default path +can be set with the 'format.outputDirectory' configuration option. +The `-o` option takes precedence over `format.outputDirectory`. +To store patches in the current working directory even when +`format.outputDirectory` points elsewhere, use `-o .`. By default, the subject of a single patch is "[PATCH] " followed by the concatenation of lines from the commit message up to the first blank |