> I’m a git user, and recently I’ve noticed there’re some differences between > “$ git format-patch –n” and “$ git format-patch HEAD~n”. According to the > documentation: “-<n> Prepare patches from the topmost <n> commits.”
Correct. However, HEAD~n will prepare patches for commits that are not ancestor of HEAD~n. And there may well be a lot more than n such commits, unless you are working on a strictly linear history. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
