This was introduced by me in commit v1.4.2.1-gc08e524. Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@xxxxxxx> --- Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote: > "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > This patch works great. I assume you forgot it? > > Thanks for reminding. Argh, there is a bug. When prefix is not NULL and -o is specified git-format-patch fails: ~/src/git/a% ../git-format-patch -o ./b HEAD~1 fatal: Two output directories? --- builtin-log.c | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin-log.c b/builtin-log.c index 130b53a..9d1ceae 100644 --- a/builtin-log.c +++ b/builtin-log.c @@ -270,8 +270,6 @@ int cmd_format_patch(int argc, const cha rev.extra_headers = extra_headers; - output_directory = prefix; - /* * Parse the arguments before setup_revisions(), or something * like "git fmt-patch -o a123 HEAD^.." may fail; a123 is @@ -350,6 +348,9 @@ int cmd_format_patch(int argc, const cha if (!rev.diffopt.output_format) rev.diffopt.output_format = DIFF_FORMAT_DIFFSTAT | DIFF_FORMAT_PATCH; + if (!output_directory) + output_directory = prefix; + if (output_directory) { if (use_stdout) die("standard output, or directory, which one?"); -- 1.4.2.1.ge767 - To unsubscribe from this list: 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