git/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt, branch v2.3.0

format-patch: add "--signature-file=" option

2014-05-27T19:38:32Z

Add an option to format-patch for reading a signature from a file. $ git format-patch -1 --signature-file=$HOME/.signature The config variable `format.signaturefile` can also be used to make this the default. $ git config format.signaturefile $HOME/.signature $ git format-patch -1 Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Mahler Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

format-patch doc: Thunderbird wraps lines unless mailnews.wraplength=0

2013-10-14T23:20:01Z

The Thunderbird section of the 'MUA-specific hints' contains three different approaches to setting up the mail client to leave patch emails unmolested. The second approach (configuration) has a step missing when configuring the composition window not to wrap. In particular, the "mailnews.wraplength" configuration variable needs to be set to zero. Update the documentation to add the missing setting. Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder

log, format-patch: parsing uses OPT__QUIET

2013-08-05T18:32:19Z

This patch allows users to use the short form -q on log and format-patch, which was non possible before. Also the documentation of format-patch mentions -q now. The documentation of log doesn't even talk about --quiet, so I'll leave that for more experienced git contributors. ;) It doesn't seem to change the default behavior, but in combination with --stat for example it suppresses the actual stats. however the only relevant code in log is if (quiet) rev->diffopt.output_format |= DIFF_FORMAT_NO_OUTPUT; Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

teach format-patch to place other authors into in-body "From"

2013-07-03T19:11:04Z

Format-patch generates emails with the "From" address set to the author of each patch. If you are going to send the emails, however, you would want to replace the author identity with yours (if they are not the same), and bump the author identity to an in-body header. Normally this is handled by git-send-email, which does the transformation before sending out the emails. However, some workflows may not use send-email (e.g., imap-send, or a custom script which feeds the mbox to a non-git MUA). They could each implement this feature themselves, but getting it right is non-trivial (one must canonicalize the identities by reversing any RFC2047 encoding or RFC822 quoting of the headers, which has caused many bugs in send-email over the years). This patch takes a different approach: it teaches format-patch a "--from" option which handles the ident check and in-body header while it is writing out the email. It's much simpler to do at this level (because we haven't done any quoting yet), and any workflow based on format-patch can easily turn it on. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

format-patch: add format.coverLetter configuration variable

2013-04-07T20:37:47Z

Also, add a new option: 'auto', so if there's more than one patch, the cover letter is generated, otherwise it's not. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'

2013-02-01T21:53:33Z

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'jc/format-patch-reroll'

2013-01-12T02:34:10Z

Teach "format-patch" to prefix v4- to its output files for the fourth iteration of a patch series, to make it easier for the submitter to keep separate copies for iterations. * jc/format-patch-reroll: format-patch: give --reroll-count a short synonym -v format-patch: document and test --reroll-count format-patch: add --reroll-count=$N option get_patch_filename(): split into two functions get_patch_filename(): drop "just-numbers" hack get_patch_filename(): simplify function signature builtin/log.c: stop using global patch_suffix builtin/log.c: drop redundant "numbered_files" parameter from make_cover_letter() builtin/log.c: drop unused "numbered" parameter from make_cover_letter()

format-patch: give --reroll-count a short synonym -v

2013-01-04T00:05:44Z

Accept "-v" as a synonym to "--reroll-count", so that users can say "git format-patch -v4 master", instead of having to fully spell it out as "git format-patch --reroll-count=4 master". As I do not think of a reason why users would want to tell the command to be "verbose", I think this should be OK. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

format-patch: document and test --reroll-count

2013-01-02T22:16:07Z

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Doc format-patch: clarify --notes use case

2012-10-26T13:25:04Z

Remove double negative, and include the repeat usage across versions of a patch series. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley Signed-off-by: Jeff King