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Even long timers seem to have missed that "format-patch -1 $commit" is a
much simpler and more obvious way to say "format-patch $commit^..$commit"
from the current documentation (and an example "format-patch -3 $commit"
to get three patches).  Add an explicit instruction in a much earlier part
of the documentation to make it easier to find.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Expand Up @@ -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
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