git-format-patch is rather broken on pu right now (pre these patches). In my test git repo, git-format-patch.sh called with 2 parameters, like git-format-patch <remotehead> <myhead> when HEAD != myhead does the right thing, but git format-patch doesn't, it seems to be messing up and not finding the merge base correctly: 0001-Initial-revision-of-git-the-information-manager-from-hell.txt And it errors out with ignore-if-in-upstream: $ ./git format-patch --ignore-if-in-upstream -o .patches origin master fatal: Not a range. I'll retest later with these patches and post again. martin - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html