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How to specify 'git send-email' to send mail on a specific patch?

I have 4 commits but I haven't done a 'git pull'. When I do 'git send-email', it will send out 4 emails (1 patch for each commit).

How can I configure git send-email so that it can send out email just for the last commit?

Thank you.

parsley72
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git-send-email takes arguments specifying the patches to send. For example, 

git send-email HEAD^

will create a patch for the last commit on your current branch. Similarly if you are formatting patches first with git-am, you can specify only the single patch file you want to send.

For more information on how to specify revisions, see man git-rev-list. The common methods you'll probably care about:

  • <commit1>..<commit2> means everything after up to
  • <commit>^ means the commit before <commit>
  • <commit>~5 means the commit five commits before <commit>
Cascabel
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  • Note that git-send-email accepting git-format-patch / git-rev-list parameters is quite new feature (require quite modern git) – Jakub Narębski Aug 06 '09 at 12:21
  • Ah, thanks, Jakub, didn't know that. I'm more of a push-pull guy. I imagine `git-format-patch` has been taking the `git-rev-list` parameters for a while, though, so there should be an alternate solution. – Cascabel Aug 07 '09 at 14:39
  • The variant with commits you advised oesn't work. `git send-email fb1171d274971b5c7984622836fbec1c144e0ea2 --annotate` tries sending 2 patches, and not even single of them is `fb1171d…`. – Hi-Angel Apr 09 '17 at 14:53
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The question was asking about a "specific patch", so many may come here to find how to send email for a spefic commit, everywhere in the log history. For this case answer may be:

git send-email -1 b7ed62c8d882fecaf70da813a0494b2f8265d544 -to trullallero@tralala.com

Where b7ed62c8d882fecaf70da813a0494b2f8265d544 is the commit i want o send as a single [PATCH] whatever is his position in the log history.

Angelo Dureghello
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IMHO this shoud be working:

git send-email -1
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