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Jeenu
Jeenu

Reputation: 2231

How to get git-format-patch to generate a single patch file without number

I've a specific list of revisions output by git rev-list and now I wanted to generate one patch file for each of revision from that list. I thought of passing each of the revision to git format-patch -1. But this generates the patch file named 0001-blah-blah.patch. I don't want format-patch to number a single patch for me; I'd just like it to generate blah-blah.patch instead.

Is there a way to get this done using git format-patch alone? Or is the only way to rename the file once the patch is generated?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 376

Answers (1)

Jeenu
Jeenu

Reputation: 2231

I had to work it around using this snippet:

git rev-list ... |
xargs bash -c '
  let "n = 0"
  for sha; do
    printf -v name "%04d-%s.patch" "$n" "$(git show -s --format=format:%f "$sha")"
    git format-patch --stdout -1 "$sha" > "patches/$name"
    let "n++"
  done
' bash

Upvotes: 1

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