Re: [PATCH] git-format-patch(1)- add note about creating patch for single commit

"Dan McGee" [off-list ref] writes:

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

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Heh, a more natural way to say that is:

       git format-patch -1 $that_one

That uses the first option described in the documentation:

       -<n>::
               Limits the number of patches to prepare.

Wow, had no idea about that option. :)

Given that I didn't even notice this option when I did go to the
manpage, what if my above change was instead reworked a bit:

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+latter case.  If you want to format only a single commit, say "git
+format-patch -1 <commit>" .

I thought about it, but saw "formatting three commits" example in the
manpage, and stopped there ;-)