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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-08-10 12:33:18 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-08-10 12:33:18 -0700 |
| commit | db40a622395397c84c247d343ef62acc8775d6b2 (patch) | |
| tree | 505448d2b765d17ce009e12809315fb07bb457d4 /Documentation | |
| parent | e6747627865347a534e7106bb1d14e32867b234d (diff) | |
| parent | 6bc6b6c0dc0a58874a7a6b9afc3156a5cf9bb10d (diff) | |
| download | git-db40a622395397c84c247d343ef62acc8775d6b2.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'jt/format-patch-from-config'
"git format-patch" learned format.from configuration variable to
specify the default settings for its "--from" option.
* jt/format-patch-from-config:
format-patch: format.from gives the default for --from
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index bc1c433c4e..0bcb6790d6 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -1253,6 +1253,16 @@ format.attach:: value as the boundary. See the --attach option in linkgit:git-format-patch[1]. +format.from:: + Provides the default value for the `--from` option to format-patch. + Accepts a boolean value, or a name and email address. If false, + format-patch defaults to `--no-from`, using commit authors directly in + the "From:" field of patch mails. If true, format-patch defaults to + `--from`, using your committer identity in the "From:" field of patch + mails and including a "From:" field in the body of the patch mail if + different. If set to a non-boolean value, format-patch uses that + value instead of your committer identity. Defaults to false. + format.numbered:: A boolean which can enable or disable sequence numbers in patch subjects. It defaults to "auto" which enables it only if there |