Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > We don't document --relative for git-format-patch, the --relative > documentation is placed under the guard, for that matter: Yup, since it does not make much sense or "diff.relative" for that matter in the context of the "format-patch". In the same sense, -R makes little sense, so sane people would not want to read about the option in the documentation, I would think. > ifndef::git-format-patch[] > -R:: > Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or > on-disk file to tree contents. > > --relative[=<path>]:: > When run from a subdirectory of the project, it can be > told to exclude changes outside the directory and show
