Re: Where man git-format-patch sends me?

Wincent Colaiuta [off-list ref] writes:

El 1/11/2007, a las 16:47, Sergei Organov escribió:

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Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

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Hi,

On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Sergei Organov wrote:

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$ man git-format-patch
[...]
OPTIONS
      -p     Generate patch (see section on generating patches)

      -u     Synonym for "-p".

As you can easily see from Documentation/git-format-patch.txt, this  
part
is generated from the file Documentation/diff-options.txt.

Sorry, I did saw that, but it doesn't change anything.

1. As a user reading man git-format-patch, where do I find this  
"section
  on generating patches"? In another man-page? In the html
  documentation? On the moon?

2. I can't find "section on generating patches" in the man git-diff
  either, and I did say this in the part of my original message you've
  snipped.

So the main question remains: could you please point me to the exact
place in 'Documentation/' directory where this "section on generating
patches" resides?

I believe the section in question is in Documentation/diff-format.txt

Ah, thank you! Now, diff-format.txt is included by
git-diff-index/git-diff-files/git-diff-tree, but not by git-diff and
git-format-patch. Do you think it is the right thing for the latter two
to include diff-format as well?

-- 
Sergei.