This teaches "git-format-patch" to honor the --max-count parameter revision traversal machinery takes, so that you can say "git-format-patch -3" to process the three topmost commits from the current HEAD (or "git-format-patch -2 topic" to name a specific branch). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> --- * I think this is incompatible with --ignore-if-upstream, which I haven't bothered to look into yet. Likes, dislikes? builtin-log.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin-log.c b/builtin-log.c index 1cd9d3f..9453e6d 100644 --- a/builtin-log.c +++ b/builtin-log.c @@ -482,8 +482,13 @@ int cmd_format_patch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) } if (rev.pending.nr == 1) { - rev.pending.objects[0].item->flags |= UNINTERESTING; - add_head(&rev); + if (rev.max_count < 0) { + rev.pending.objects[0].item->flags |= UNINTERESTING; + add_head(&rev); + } + /* Otherwise, it is "format-patch -22 HEAD", and + * get_revision() would return only the specified count. + */ } if (ignore_if_in_upstream) - 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