How do you squash commits into one patch with git format-patch?

Question

I\'ve got eight commits on a branch that I\'d like to email to some people who aren\'t git enlightened, yet. So far, everything I do either gives me 8 patch files, or start

Answer 1

Format-patch between two tags:

git checkout 
git checkout -b 
git merge --squash 
git commit -a -m ""
git format-patch