git-format-patch(1) uses `format.noprefix` and ignores `diff.noprefix`.
The configuration variable `format.prefix` was added as an “escape
hatch”, and “it’s unlikely that anybody really wants format.
noprefix=true in the first place.”[1] Based on that there doesn’t
seem to be a need to widely advertise this configuration variable.
But in any case: the documentation for this option should not claim
that it overrides a config that is always ignored.
† 1:
8d5213de (format-patch: add format.noprefix option, 2023-03-09)
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`--default-prefix`::
Use the default source and destination prefixes ("a/" and "b/").
- This overrides configuration variables such as `diff.noprefix`,
+ This overrides configuration variables such as
+ifndef::git-format-patch[`diff.noprefix`,]
+ifdef::git-format-patch[`format.noprefix`,]
`diff.srcPrefix`, `diff.dstPrefix`, and `diff.mnemonicPrefix`
(see linkgit:git-config[1]).