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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-01-26 16:20:38 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-01-26 16:20:38 -0800 |
| commit | 289d7e8e148e955d97776feff1a43a249eda86a6 (patch) | |
| tree | 1af6dc01f658cd7e6c8683caff506fd98b3c2908 /git-format-patch.txt | |
| parent | 4e6ba27c956c6c9b43e7196f210796bd1db478a9 (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-289d7e8e148e955d97776feff1a43a249eda86a6.tar.gz | |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v2.7.0-193-gd10e2
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diff --git a/git-format-patch.txt b/git-format-patch.txt index b149e0906..6821441d7 100644 --- a/git-format-patch.txt +++ b/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 |