format-patch: do not let its diff-options affect --range-diff

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index aba4c5febeb7ef4248d50a638d0a8bd58f7d553b..27304428a12ce9d0ee46e10e3c63069b4677838a 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
@@ -250,6 +250,11 @@ feeding the result to `git send-email`.
        feature/v2`), or a revision range if the two versions of the series are
        disjoint (for example `git format-patch --cover-letter
        --range-diff=feature/v1~3..feature/v1 -3 feature/v2`).
++
+Note that diff options passed to the command affect how the primary
+product of `format-patch` is generated, and they are not passed to
+the underlying `range-diff` machinery used to generate the cover-letter
+material (this may change in the future).
 
 --creation-factor=<percent>::
        Used with `--range-diff`, tweak the heuristic which matches up commits