On Aug 19 2016, "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 04:44:21PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > >> This command used to create a diff which can be consumed by patch. But >> at least with 2.9.3 it just gives a rename output: >> >> git format-patch \ >> --no-signature \ >> --stdout \ >> --break-rewrites \ >> --keep-subject \ >> >> 95fa0405c5991726e06c08ffcd8ff872f7fb4f2d^..95fa0405c5991726e06c08ffcd8ff872f7fb4f2d >> >> >> What must be done now to get a usable patch? > > As an aside, the range can be shortened to > > 95fa0405c5991726e06c08ffcd8ff872f7fb4f2d^! In the context of format-patch you can also use -1 to select the topmost commit from the list. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- 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