JCH> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-format-patch.html That looks OK. All I know is on Debian (1:1.5.6.5-2) it gets rendered: $ w3m -dump /usr/share/doc/git-doc/git-format-patch.html|fgrep \\- $ git format-patch \--root origin I was patching offline from Debian. OK, in the future I will clone upstream directly properly first. -- 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