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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 6 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index f61788668e..e92a0ee19a 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -1243,6 +1243,10 @@ format.coverLetter:: format-patch is invoked, but in addition can be set to "auto", to generate a cover-letter only when there's more than one patch. +format.outputDirectory:: + Set a custom directory to store the resulting files instead of the + current working directory. + filter.<driver>.clean:: The command which is used to convert the content of a worktree file to a blob upon checkin. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt index e3cdaeb958..64c28031ec 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 |