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

Based on Adam Alexander's answer:

git checkout newlines
## must be rebased to master
git checkout -b temporary
# squash the commits
git rebase -i master
git format-patch master