2008/8/28 Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>: > * Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> 'git show' is quite sufficient, as long as I can pipe its output into >> patch(1) or write it to a foo.patch file, which appears to be the >> case. > > the only time git show is not sufficient for me in practice, the > following one is: > > git log --pretty=email -p -1 > "git show --pretty=email", indeed 8-) > that's when i want to do precise import/export of patches from/to email. > (but it's rare) But it does not export them "precisely". You get no patch for merges (even if there were changes). Try using "git format-patch --stdout" (or with "-o <directory>" instead of "--stdout", to split in patches). -- 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