cg-mkpatch - make a patch from one or several commits

cg-mkpatch [-m] [-s] [-r FROM_ID[..TO_ID] [-d DIRNAME]]

Generate a patch with diff statistics and meta info about each commit.

Note that if you want to use this as the output interface for your GIT tree containing changes against upstream GIT tree, please consider using the StGIT tool ("quilt for GIT"), which will enable you to update your patches seamlessly, rebase them against the latest upstream version, directly send them over mail, etc.

-d DIRNAME

Split the patches to separate files with their names in the format "%02d.patch", created in directory DIRNAME (will be created if non-existent). Note that this makes sense only when generating patch series, that is when you use the -r argument.

-f FORMAT

Format string used for generating the patch filename when outputting the split-out patches (that is, passed the -d option). This is by default "%s/%02d-%s.patch". The first %s represents the directory name and %d represents the patch sequence number. The last %s is mangled first line of the commit message - kind of patch title.

-m

Base the patches at the merge base of the -r arguments (defaulting to HEAD and origin).

-r FROM_ID[..TO_ID]

Specify a set of commits to make patches from using either -r FROM_ID[..TO_ID] or -r FROM_ID -r TO_ID. In both cases the option expects IDs which resolve to commits and will include the specified IDs. If TO_ID is omitted patches for all commits from FROM_ID to the initial commit will be generated. If no -r option is given the commit ID defaults to HEAD.

-s

Specify whether to print a short version of the patch without a patch header with meta info such as author and committer.

-h, --help

Print usage help.

To make patches for all commits between two releases tagged as releasetag-0.9 and releasetag-0.10 do:

$ cg-mkpatch -r releasetag-0.9..releasetag-0.10

The output will be a continuous dump of patches each separated by the line:

!-------------------------------------------------------------flip-

The : is equivalent to .. in revisions range specification (to make things more comfortable to SVN users). See cogito(7) for more details about revision specification.

Copyright © Petr Baudis, 2005

cg-mkpatch command is part of cogito(7), a toolkit for managing git(7) trees.