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git-format-patch: the default suffix is now .patch, not .txt
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Editors often give easier handling of patch files if the
filename ends with .patch, so use it instead of .txt.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Junio C Hamano committed Jan 18, 2007
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15 changes: 7 additions & 8 deletions Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
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Expand Up @@ -81,9 +81,9 @@ OPTIONS
provide a new patch series.

--suffix=.<sfx>::
Instead of using `.txt` as the suffix for generated
Instead of using `.patch` as the suffix for generated
filenames, use specifed suffix. A common alternative is
`--suffix=.patch`.
`--suffix=.txt`.
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Note that you would need to include the leading dot `.` if you
want a filename like `0001-description-of-my-change.patch`, and
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CONFIGURATION
-------------
You can specify extra mail header lines to be added to each
message in the repository configuration as follows:
message in the repository configuration. Also you can specify
the default suffix different from the built-in one:

------------
[format]
headers = "Organization: git-foo\n"

You can specify default suffix used:

[format]
suffix = .patch
suffix = .txt
------------


EXAMPLES
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt
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Expand Up @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ prepare #2 and #3 for e-mail submission.

$ git format-patch master^^ master

This creates two files, 0001-XXXX.txt and 0002-XXXX.txt. Send
This creates two files, 0001-XXXX.patch and 0002-XXXX.patch. Send
them out "To: " your project maintainer and "Cc: " your mailing
list. You could use contributed script git-send-email if
your host has necessary perl modules for this, but your usual
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion builtin-log.c
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static char *extra_headers = NULL;
static int extra_headers_size = 0;
static const char *fmt_patch_suffix = ".txt";
static const char *fmt_patch_suffix = ".patch";

static int git_format_config(const char *var, const char *value)
{
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