Merge branch 'maint'

* maint:
  format-patch documentation: mention the special case of showing a single commit
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Junio C Hamano 2008-11-04 15:11:26 -08:00
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@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ applies to that command line and you do not get "everything
since the beginning of the time". If you want to format
everything since project inception to one commit, say "git
format-patch \--root <commit>" to make it clear that it is the
latter case.
latter case. If you want to format a single commit, you can do
this with "git format-patch -1 <commit>".
By default, each output file is numbered sequentially from 1, and uses the
first line of the commit message (massaged for pathname safety) as