Hi, On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Nathan W. Panike wrote: > The behavior for git format-patch is to ignore merge commits, producing > an empty patch. The code does not allow the user to change this > behavior. This patch changes that behavior by allowing the user to > specify -c or -m at the command line to produce a patch for a merge > commit. Your patch is almost perfect, except that you - lack an explanation when this makes sense (format-patch is commonly used for mail-based patch queues, and only -m 1 would make sense there, and only if you run format-patch with --first-parent), - did not add your Sign-off :-) Ciao, Dscho -- 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