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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2019-10-18 02:40:48 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2019-10-18 02:40:48 (GMT)
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Merge branch 'bw/format-patch-o-create-leading-dirs'
"git format-patch -o <outdir>" did an equivalent of "mkdir <outdir>" not "mkdir -p <outdir>", which is being corrected. * bw/format-patch-o-create-leading-dirs: format-patch: create leading components of output directory
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/format.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-format-patch.txt3
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config/format.txt b/Documentation/config/format.txt
index cb629fa..40cad92 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/format.txt
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ format.coverLetter::
format.outputDirectory::
Set a custom directory to store the resulting files instead of the
- current working directory.
+ current working directory. All directory components will be created.
format.useAutoBase::
A boolean value which lets you enable the `--base=auto` option of
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index 0ac56f4..2035d4d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
@@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ they are created in the current working directory. The default path
can be set with the `format.outputDirectory` configuration option.
The `-o` option takes precedence over `format.outputDirectory`.
To store patches in the current working directory even when
-`format.outputDirectory` points elsewhere, use `-o .`.
+`format.outputDirectory` points elsewhere, use `-o .`. All directory
+components will be created.
By default, the subject of a single patch is "[PATCH] " followed by
the concatenation of lines from the commit message up to the first blank