From 5c70d80c2cf4bf994fdb124f402fad431b8f781f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Penny Leach <penny@mjollnir.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:57:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add formatpatches, small helper for turning git log output
 into patches

---
 bin/formatpatches | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 bin/formatpatches

diff --git a/bin/formatpatches b/bin/formatpatches
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..47ccbb4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/formatpatches
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+
+# run this like:
+# git log --reverse <limiting parameters like --author or path/> | bin/formatpatches
+# inspect the output, then run again with | sh on the end
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+
+my $count = 0;
+
+while (<>) {
+    next unless /^commit ([a-z0-9]+)$/;
+    my $hash = $1;
+
+    print "git format-patch --start-number $count $hash^..$hash\n";
+    $count++;
+}
+
+
+1
-- 
2.39.5