Test in git-init-db if the filemode can be trusted

[git.git] / Documentation / git-format-patch.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index a1483ff..f3ef4c1 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-format-patch - Prepare patches for e-mail submission.
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-format-patch' [-n][-o <dir>][-k][--mbox][--diff-options] <his> [<mine>]
+'git-format-patch' [-n][-o <dir>|--stdout][-k][--mbox][--diff-options] <his> [<mine>]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ OPTIONS
        concatenated together and fed to `git-applymbox`.
        Implies --author and --date.
 
+--stdout::
+       This flag generates the mbox formatted output to the
+       standard output, instead of saving them into a file per
+       patch and implies --mbox.
 
 Author
 ------