Re: How does format-patch determine the filename of the patch?

Timur Tabi wrote:

Hi.  I'm not familiar with the git source code, so forgive me if this
is a dumb question.  I'm trying to determine the algorithm that
git-format-patch uses to determine the name of the patch file it
creates (e.g. "0001-this-is-my-patch-without-spaces-and-trunca.patch")
 I'm looking at the function cmd_format_patch(), and I just don't see
where it creates any files.  Can someone show me where this code is?

get_patch_filename() in log-tree.c, but the bulk of the work is done
in the call out to format_commit_message() [pretty.c] with the "%f"
format, which is in turn handled by format_sanitized_subject()
[pretty.c].

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Thomas Rast
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