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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-04-14 12:47:44 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-04-14 12:47:45 -0700
commitee30f17805f51d372ff9c5036f1d142c167e5e34 (patch)
treef47b60cb10efd46b82c067b3e17a25004808a1c5 /Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
parent7307dd898988c79fc687051e783b3cac8488a559 (diff)
parent2ab56603bffb7aed6ec6d2a36deddfdf49cfd5ad (diff)
downloadgit-ee30f17805f51d372ff9c5036f1d142c167e5e34.tar.xz
Merge branch 'sb/submodule-path-misc-bugs' into sb/submodule-init
"git submodule" reports the paths of submodules the command recurses into, but this was incorrect when the command was not run from the root level of the superproject. Any further comments? Otherwise will merge to 'next'. * sb/submodule-path-misc-bugs: (600 commits) t7407: make expectation as clear as possible submodule update: test recursive path reporting from subdirectory submodule update: align reporting path for custom command execution submodule status: correct path handling in recursive submodules submodule update --init: correct path handling in recursive submodules submodule foreach: correct path display in recursive submodules Git 2.8 Documentation: fix git-p4 AsciiDoc formatting mingw: skip some tests in t9115 due to file name issues t1300: fix the new --show-origin tests on Windows t1300-repo-config: make it resilient to being run via 'sh -x' config --show-origin: report paths with forward slashes submodule: fix regression for deinit without submodules l10n: pt_PT: Update and add new translations l10n: ca.po: update translation Git 2.8-rc4 Documentation: fix broken linkgit to git-config Documentation: use ASCII quotation marks in git-p4 Revert "config.mak.uname: use clang for Mac OS X 10.6" git-compat-util: st_add4: work around gcc 4.2.x compiler crash ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index 4035649117..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
@@ -109,6 +113,7 @@ include::diff-options.txt[]
--signoff::
Add `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using
the committer identity of yourself.
+ See the signoff option in linkgit:git-commit[1] for more information.
--stdout::
Print all commits to the standard output in mbox format,
@@ -256,6 +261,10 @@ you can use `--suffix=-patch` to get `0001-description-of-my-change-patch`.
using this option cannot be applied properly, but they are
still useful for code review.
+--zero-commit::
+ Output an all-zero hash in each patch's From header instead
+ of the hash of the commit.
+
--root::
Treat the revision argument as a <revision range>, even if it
is just a single commit (that would normally be treated as a