From: "Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón" <carenas@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>,
Thiago Perrotta <tbperrotta@gmail.com>,
avarab@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] send-email docs: add format-patch options
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 23:13:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YU6+BWC+xvGJP3b0@carlos-mbp.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq5yups3g8.fsf@gitster.g>
On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 09:07:35PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> writes:
> > On 25/09/21 03.03, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >> Ah, thanks for explanation.
> >> git format-patch -2
> >> would be options-only way to "indicate some sort of revision", so
> >> perhaps
> >> . git send-email <send-email options> files|directory
> >> . git send-email <send-email options> <format-patch options>
> >> (where "options" is used to refer to both --options and arguments)
> >> would illustrate the differences better?
> >>
> > But we can also directly specify revision range (commonly <common
> > ancestor>..HEAD or HEAD ^<common ancestor>).
>
> That is exactly why I have the parenthetical definition of what
> "options" mean in my explanation.
>
> git format-patch -2
> git format-patch master
> git format-patch master..HEAD
>
> Everything after "git format-patch", i.e. -2, master, master..HEAD,
> are usable, and there isn't much point in singling out revision
> ranges. FWIW, I think you can even give "-- <pathspec>" at the end,
> which are not options or revision ranges.
<format-patch options> then it is; would the following be worth adding
in top so the recursive reference can be followed?
Carlo
------ >8 ------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index fe2f69d36e..806ff93259 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[--range-diff=<previous> [--creation-factor=<percent>]]
[--filename-max-length=<n>]
[--progress]
- [<common diff options>]
+ [<common diff options>] [<rev-list options>]
[ <since> | <revision range> ]
DESCRIPTION
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-25 6:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-20 0:46 [PATCH v2 0/3] send-email: shell completion improvements Thiago Perrotta
2021-08-20 0:46 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] send-email: print newline for --git-completion-helper Thiago Perrotta
2021-08-20 20:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-08-28 3:08 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] send-email: shell completion improvements Thiago Perrotta
2021-08-28 3:08 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] send-email: terminate --git-completion-helper with LF Thiago Perrotta
2021-08-28 3:08 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] send-email: move bash completions to core script Thiago Perrotta
2021-08-28 5:25 ` Carlo Arenas
2021-09-07 0:16 ` [PATCH] " Thiago Perrotta
2021-09-07 1:28 ` Carlo Arenas
2021-09-21 15:51 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] send-email: shell completion improvements Thiago Perrotta
2021-09-21 15:51 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] send-email: terminate --git-completion-helper with LF Thiago Perrotta
2021-09-21 15:51 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] send-email: move bash completions to core script Thiago Perrotta
2021-09-21 15:51 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] send-email docs: add format-patch options Thiago Perrotta
2021-09-23 14:02 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] send-email: shell completion improvements Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-24 2:46 ` [PATCH v5 " Thiago Perrotta
2021-09-24 20:02 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-30 3:10 ` Thiago Perrotta
2021-10-07 3:36 ` [PATCH v6 " Thiago Perrotta
2021-10-07 3:36 ` [PATCH v6 1/3] send-email: terminate --git-completion-helper with LF Thiago Perrotta
2021-10-07 3:36 ` [PATCH v6 2/3] send-email: programmatically generate bash completions Thiago Perrotta
2021-10-09 6:38 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2021-10-11 4:10 ` [PATCH v7 0/3] send-email: shell completion improvements Thiago Perrotta
2021-10-11 13:46 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-10-11 17:12 ` [DRAFT/WIP PATCH] send-email: programmatically generate bash completions Thiago Perrotta
2021-10-25 21:27 ` [PATCH v8 0/2] send-email: shell completion improvements Thiago Perrotta
2021-10-25 22:44 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-10-26 0:48 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-10-28 16:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-10-25 21:27 ` [PATCH v8 1/2] send-email: programmatically generate bash completions Thiago Perrotta
2021-10-25 21:27 ` [PATCH v8 2/2] send-email docs: add format-patch options Thiago Perrotta
2021-10-11 4:10 ` [PATCH v7 1/3] send-email: terminate --git-completion-helper with LF Thiago Perrotta
2021-10-11 4:10 ` [PATCH v7 2/3] send-email: programmatically generate bash completions Thiago Perrotta
2021-10-11 4:10 ` [PATCH v7 3/3] send-email docs: add format-patch options Thiago Perrotta
2021-10-07 3:36 ` [PATCH v6 " Thiago Perrotta
2021-10-09 8:31 ` [RFC PATCH] Documentation: better document format-patch options in send-email Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2021-10-09 8:57 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-10-09 9:32 ` Carlo Arenas
2021-10-09 11:04 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-10-10 21:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-24 2:46 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] send-email: terminate --git-completion-helper with LF Thiago Perrotta
2021-09-24 2:46 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] send-email: programmatically generate bash completions Thiago Perrotta
2021-09-24 2:46 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] send-email docs: add format-patch options Thiago Perrotta
2021-09-24 4:36 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-09-24 4:53 ` Carlo Arenas
2021-09-24 6:19 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-09-24 6:56 ` Carlo Arenas
2021-09-24 15:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-24 17:34 ` Carlo Arenas
2021-09-24 20:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-25 3:03 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-09-25 4:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-25 6:13 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón [this message]
2021-09-29 21:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-08-28 3:08 ` [PATCH v3 " Thiago Perrotta
2021-08-28 5:22 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-08-20 0:46 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] send-email: move bash completions to the perl script Thiago Perrotta
2021-08-20 0:46 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] send-email docs: mention format-patch options Thiago Perrotta
2021-08-20 20:32 ` Junio C Hamano
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