In the codebase, there are many options which use OPTION_CALLBACK in a
plain ol' struct definition. However, we have the OPT_CALLBACK and
OPT_CALLBACK_F macros which are meant to abstract these plain struct
definitions away. These macros are useful as they semantically signal to
developers that these are just normal callback option with nothing fancy
happening.
Replace plain struct definitions of OPTION_CALLBACK with OPT_CALLBACK or
OPT_CALLBACK_F where applicable. The heavy lifting was done using the
following (disgusting) shell script:
#!/bin/sh
do_replacement () {
tr '\n' '\r' |
sed -e 's/{\s*OPTION_CALLBACK,\s*\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\),\s*0,\(\s*[^[:space:]}]*\)\s*}/OPT_CALLBACK(\1,\2,\3,\4,\5,\6)/g' |
sed -e 's/{\s*OPTION_CALLBACK,\s*\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\),\(\s*[^[:space:]}]*\)\s*}/OPT_CALLBACK_F(\1,\2,\3,\4,\5,\6,\7)/g' |
tr '\r' '\n'
}
for f in $(git ls-files \*.c)
do
do_replacement <"$f" >"$f.tmp"
mv "$f.tmp" "$f"
done
The result was manually inspected and then reformatted to match the
style of the surrounding code. Finally, using
`git grep OPTION_CALLBACK \*.c`, leftover results which were not handled
by the script were manually transformed.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 'git log', the --decorate-refs-exclude option appends a pattern
to a string_list. This list is used to prevent showing some refs
in the decoration output, or even by --simplify-by-decoration.
Users may want to use their refs space to store utility refs that
should not appear in the decoration output. For example, Scalar [1]
runs a background fetch but places the "new" refs inside the
refs/scalar/hidden/<remote>/* refspace instead of refs/<remote>/*
to avoid updating remote refs when the user is not looking. However,
these "hidden" refs appear during regular 'git log' queries.
A similar idea to use "hidden" refs is under consideration for core
Git [2].
Add the 'log.excludeDecoration' config option so users can exclude
some refs from decorations by default instead of needing to use
--decorate-refs-exclude manually. The config value is multi-valued
much like the command-line option. The documentation is careful to
point out that the config value can be overridden by the
--decorate-refs option, even though --decorate-refs-exclude would
always "win" over --decorate-refs.
Since the 'log.excludeDecoration' takes lower precedence to
--decorate-refs, and --decorate-refs-exclude takes higher
precedence, the struct decoration_filter needed another field.
This led also to new logic in load_ref_decorations() and
ref_filter_match().
There are several tests in t4202-log.sh that test the
--decorate-refs-(include|exclude) options, so these are extended.
Since the expected output is already stored as a file, most tests
could simply replace a "--decorate-refs-exclude" option with an
in-line config setting. Other tests involve the precedence of
the config option compared to command-line options and needed more
modification.
[1] https://github.com/microsoft/scalar
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/77b1da5d3063a2404cd750adfe3bb8be9b6c497d.1585946894.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gister@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When commit subjects or authors have non-ASCII characters, git
format-patch Q-encodes them so they can be safely sent over email.
However, if the patch transfer method is something other than email (web
review tools, sneakernet), this only serves to make the patch metadata
harder to read without first applying it (unless you can decode RFC 2047
in your head). git am as well as some email software supports
non-Q-encoded mail as described in RFC 6531.
Add --[no-]encode-email-headers and format.encodeEmailHeaders to let the
user control this behavior.
Signed-off-by: Emma Brooks <me@pluvano.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The option name "--use-mailmap" looks OK, but it becomes awkward
when you have to negate it, i.e. "--no-use-mailmap". I, perhaps
with many other users, always try "--no-mailmap" and become unhappy
to see it fail.
Add an alias "--[no-]mailmap" to remedy this.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 8164c961e1 (format-patch: use --notes behavior for format.notes,
2019-12-09), we introduced set_display_notes() which was a monolithic
function with three mutually exclusive branches. Break the function up
into three small and simple functions that each are only responsible for
one task.
This family of functions accepts an `int *show_notes` instead of
returning a value suitable for assignment to `show_notes`. This is for
two reasons. First of all, this guarantees that the external
`show_notes` variable changes in lockstep with the
`struct display_notes_opt`. Second, this prompts future developers to be
careful about doing something meaningful with this value. In fact, a
NULL check is intentionally omitted because causing a segfault here
would tell the future developer that they are meant to use the value for
something meaningful.
One alternative was making the family of functions accept a
`struct rev_info *` instead of the `struct display_notes_opt *`, since
the former contains the `show_notes` field as well. This does not work
because we have to call git_config() before repo_init_revisions().
However, if we had a `struct rev_info`, we'd need to initialize it before
it gets assigned values from git_config(). As a result, we break the
circular dependency by having standalone `int show_notes` and
`struct display_notes_opt notes_opt` variables which temporarily hold
values from git_config() until the values are copied over to `rev`.
To implement this change, we need to get a pointer to
`rev_info::show_notes`. Unfortunately, this is not possible with
bitfields and only direct-assignment is possible. Change
`rev_info::show_notes` to a non-bitfield int so that we can get its
address.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 13cdf78094 (format-patch: teach format.notes config option,
2019-05-16), the order in which git_config() and repo_init_revisions()
were swapped so that `rev.notes_opt` would be initialized before
git_config() was called. This is problematic, however, as git_config()
should generally be called before repo_init_revisions().
Break this circular dependency by creating `show_notes` and `notes_opt`
which git_config() reads into. Then, copy these values over to
`rev.show_notes` and `rev.notes_opt` after repo_init_revisions() is
called.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we had multiple `format.notes` config values where we had `<ref1>`,
`false`, `<ref2>` (in that order), then we would print out the notes for
both `<ref1>` and `<ref2>`. This doesn't make sense, however, since we
parse the config in a top-down manner and a `false` should be able to
override previous configurations, just like how `--no-notes` will
override previous `--notes`.
Duplicate the logic that handles the `--[no-]notes[=]` option to
`format.notes` for consistency. As a result, when parsing the config
from top to bottom, `format.notes = true` will behave like `--notes`,
`format.notes = <ref>` will behave like `--notes=<ref>` and
`format.notes = false` will behave like `--no-notes`.
This change isn't strictly backwards compatible but since it is an edge
case where a sane user would not mix notes refs with `false` and this
feature is relatively new (released only in v2.23.0), this change should
be harmless.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
According to the function comment, init_display_notes() was supposed to
"Load the notes machinery for displaying several notes trees." Rename
this function to load_display_notes() so that its use is more accurately
represented.
This is done because, in a future commit, we will reuse the name
init_display_notes().
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If `format.useAutoBase = true`, there was no way to override this from
the command-line. Teach the `--no-base` option in format-patch to
override `format.useAutoBase`.
Helped-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since format-patch accepts `--[no-]notes`, one would expect the
range-diff generated to also respect the setting. Unfortunately, the
range-diff we currently generate only uses the default option (which
always outputs default notes, even when notes are not being used
elsewhere).
Pass the notes configuration to range-diff so that it can honor it.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a commit being range-diff'd has a note attached to it, the note
will be compared as well. However, if a user has multiple notes refs or
if they want to suppress notes from being printed, there is currently no
way to do this.
Pass through `--[no-]notes[=<ref>]` to the `git log` call so that this
option is customizable.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before, when format-patch generated a cover letter, only the body would
be populated with a branch's description while the subject would be
populated with placeholder text. However, users may want to have the
subject of their cover letter automatically populated in the same way.
Teach format-patch to accept the `--cover-from-description` option and
corresponding `format.coverFromDescription` config, allowing users to
populate different parts of the cover letter (including the subject
now).
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before, `thread` and `config_cover_letter` were defined as ints even
though they behaved as enums. Define actual enums and change these
variables to use these new definitions.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 30984ed2e9 (format-patch: support deep threading, 2009-02-19),
introduced the following lines:
#define THREAD_SHALLOW 1
[...]
thread = git_config_bool(var, value) && THREAD_SHALLOW;
Since git_config_bool() returns a bool, the trailing `&& THREAD_SHALLOW`
is a no-op. Replace this errorneous and condition with a ternary
statement so that it is clear what the configured value is when a
boolean is given.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git format-patch -o <outdir>' did an equivalent of 'mkdir <outdir>'
not 'mkdir -p <outdir>', which is being corrected.
Avoid the usage of 'adjust_shared_perm' on the leading directories which
may have security implications. Achieved by temporarily disabling of
'config.sharedRepository' like 'git init' does.
Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Avoid derefencing ->tagged without checking for NULL by using the
convenience wrapper for getting the ID of the tagged object. It die()s
when encountering a broken tag instead of segfaulting.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update the docs, test the interaction between the new default,
configuration and command line option, in addition to actually
flipping the default.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It turns out that being cautious to warn against upcoming default
change was an unpopular behaviour, and such a care can easily be
defeated by distro packagers to render it ineffective anyway.
Just flip the default, with only a mention in the release notes.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Based on discussions around changing the log.mailmap default to being
enabled, it was decided that a transitional period is required.
Accordingly, we announce this transitional period with a warning
message.
Signed-off-by: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In git-format-patch, notes can be appended with the `--notes` option.
However, this must be specified by the user on an
invocation-by-invocation basis. If a user is not careful, it's possible
that they may forget to include it and generate a patch series without
notes.
Teach git-format-patch the `format.notes` config option. Its value is a
notes ref that will be automatically appended. The special value of
"standard" can be used to specify the standard notes. This option is
overridable with the `--no-notes` option in case a user wishes not to
append notes.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We weren't flushing the context each time we processed a hunk in the
patch-id generation code in diff.c, but we were doing that when we
generated "stable" patch-ids with the 'patch-id' tool. Let's port that
similar logic over from patch-id.c into diff.c so we can get the same
hash when we're generating patch-ids for 'format-patch --base=' types of
command invocations.
Cc: Xiaolong Ye <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We pass the length of the found "tagger" line to show_tagger(), but it
does not use it; instead, it passes the string to pp_user_info(), which
reads until newline or NUL. This is OK for our purposes because we
always read the object contents into a buffer with an extra NUL (and
indeed, our sole caller already relies on this by using starts_with).
Let's drop the ignored parameter. And while we're touching the caller,
let's use skip_prefix() to avoid a magic number.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The early output code passes around a rev_info struct but doesn't need
it. The setup step only turns on global signal handlers, and the
"estimate" step is done completely from the rev->commits list that is
passed in separately.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The make_cover_letter() function is supposed to open a new file for
writing, and let the caller write into it via FILE *rev->diffopt.file
but because the function does not return anything, the caller does not
bother checking the return value.
Make sure it dies, instead of keep going with a NULL output
filestream and relying on it to cause a crash, when it fails to
open the file.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This adds value completion for a couple more paramters. To make it
easier to maintain these hard coded lists, add a comment at the original
list/code to remind people to update git-completion.bash too.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By default, index compat macros are off from now on, because they
could hide the_index dependency.
Only those in builtin can use it.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This kills the_index dependency in get_oid_with_context() but for
get_oid() and friends, they still assume the_repository (which also
means the_index).
Unfortunately the widespread use of get_oid() will make it hard to
make the conversion now. We probably will add repo_get_oid() at some
point and limit the use of get_oid() in builtin/ instead of forcing
all get_oid() call sites to carry struct repository.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make it possible to write for example
git log --format="%H,%S"
where the %S at the end is a new placeholder that prints out the ref
(tag/branch) for each commit.
Using %d might seem like an alternative but it only shows the ref for the last
commit in the branch.
Signed-off-by: Issac Trotts <issactrotts@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Pass the object pool to free_commit_buffer and release_commit_memory,
such that we can eliminate access to 'the_repository'.
Also remove the TODO in release_commit_memory, as commit->util was
removed in 9d2c97016f (commit.h: delete 'util' field in struct commit,
2018-05-19)
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit d8981c3f88 ("format-patch: do not let its diff-options affect
--range-diff", 2018-11-30) taught `show_range_diff()` to accept a
NULL-pointer as an indication that it should use its own "reasonable
default". That fixed a regression from a5170794 ("Merge branch
'ab/range-diff-no-patch'", 2018-11-18), but unfortunately it introduced
a regression of its own.
In particular, it means we forget the `file` member of the diff options,
so rather than placing a range-diff in the cover-letter, we write it to
stdout. In order to fix this, rewrite the two callers adjusted by
d8981c3f88 to instead create a "dummy" set of diff options where they
only fill in the fields we absolutely require, such as output file and
color.
Modify and extend the existing tests to try and verify that the right
contents end up in the right place.
Don't revert `show_range_diff()`, i.e., let it keep accepting NULL.
Rather than removing what is dead code and figuring out it isn't
actually dead and we've broken 2.20, just leave it for now.
[es: retain diff coloring when going to stdout]
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Stop leaking how the primary output of format-patch is customized to
the range-diff machinery and instead let the latter use its own
"reasonable default", in order to correct the breakage introduced by
a5170794 ("Merge branch 'ab/range-diff-no-patch'", 2018-11-18) on
the 'master' front. "git format-patch --range-diff..." without any
weird diff option started to include the "range-diff --stat" output,
which is rather useless right now, that made the whole thing
unusable and this is probably the least disruptive way to whip the
codebase into a shippable shape.
We may want to later make the range-diff driven by format-patch more
configurable, but that would have to wait until we have a good
design.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These functions call tree_entry_interesting() which will soon require
a 'struct index_state *' to be passed in. Instead of just changing the
function signature to take an index, update to take a repo instead
because these functions do need object database access.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 43662b23ab (format-patch: keep cover-letter diffstat wrapped in
72 columns - 2018-01-24) uncondtionally sets stat width to 72 when
generating diffstat for the cover letter, ignoring --stat from command
line. But it should only do so when stat width is still default
(i.e. stat_width == 0).
In order to fix this, we should only set stat_width if stat_width is
zero. But it will never be. Commit 071dd0ba43 (format-patch: reduce
patch diffstat width to 72 - 2018-02-01) makes sure that default stat
width will be 72 (ignoring $COLUMNS, but could still be overriden by
--stat). So all we need to do here is drop the assignment.
Reported-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Helped-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we define a parse-options callback, the flags we put in the option
struct must match what the callback expects. For example, a callback
which does not handle the "unset" parameter should only be used with
PARSE_OPT_NONEG. But since the callback and the option struct are not
defined next to each other, it's easy to get this wrong (as earlier
patches in this series show).
Fortunately, the compiler can help us here: compiling with
-Wunused-parameters can show us which callbacks ignore their "unset"
parameters (and likewise, ones that ignore "arg" expect to be triggered
with PARSE_OPT_NOARG).
But after we've inspected a callback and determined that all of its
callers use the right flags, what do we do next? We'd like to silence
the compiler warning, but do so in a way that will catch any wrong calls
in the future.
We can do that by actually checking those variables and asserting that
they match our expectations. Because this is such a common pattern,
we'll introduce some helper macros. The resulting messages aren't
as descriptive as we could make them, but the file/line information from
BUG() is enough to identify the problem (and anyway, the point is that
these should never be seen).
Each of the annotated callbacks in this patch triggers
-Wunused-parameters, and was manually inspected to make sure all callers
use the correct options (so none of these BUGs should be triggerable).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have separate parse-options entries for "numbered" and "no-numbered",
which means that we accept "--no-no-numbered". It does not behave
sensibly, though (it ignores the "unset" flag and acts like
"--no-numbered").
We could fix that, but obviously this is silly and unintentional. Let's
just disallow it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A new variant repo_diff_setup() is added that takes 'struct repository *'
and diff_setup() becomes a thin macro around it that is protected by
NO_THE_REPOSITORY_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS, similar to NO_THE_INDEX_....
The plan is these macros will always be defined for all library files
and the macros are only accessible in builtin/
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using the more restrictive oideq() should, in the long run,
give the compiler more opportunities to optimize these
callsites. For now, this conversion should be a complete
noop with respect to the generated code.
The result is also perhaps a little more readable, as it
avoids the "zero is equal" idiom. Since it's so prevalent in
C, I think seasoned programmers tend not to even notice it
anymore, but it can sometimes make for awkward double
negations (e.g., we can drop a few !!oidcmp() instances
here).
This patch was generated almost entirely by the included
coccinelle patch. This mechanical conversion should be
completely safe, because we check explicitly for cases where
oidcmp() is compared to 0, which is what oideq() is doing
under the hood. Note that we don't have to catch "!oidcmp()"
separately; coccinelle's standard isomorphisms make sure the
two are treated equivalently.
I say "almost" because I did hand-edit the coccinelle output
to fix up a few style violations (it mostly keeps the
original formatting, but sometimes unwraps long lines).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When submitting a revised version of a patch or series, it can be
helpful (to reviewers) to include a summary of changes since the
previous attempt in the form of a range-diff, typically in the cover
letter. However, it is occasionally useful, despite making for a noisy
read, to insert a range-diff into the commentary section of the lone
patch of a 1-patch series.
Therefore, extend "git format-patch --range-diff=<refspec>" to insert a
range-diff into the commentary section of a lone patch rather than
requiring a cover letter.
Implementation note: Generating a range-diff for insertion into the
commentary section of a patch which itself is currently being generated
requires invoking the diffing machinery recursively. However, the
machinery does not (presently) support this since it uses global state.
Consequently, we need to take care to stash away the state of the
in-progress operation while generating the range-diff, and restore it
after.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When generating a range-diff, matching up commits between two version of
a patch series involves heuristics, thus may give unexpected results.
git-range-diff allows tweaking the heuristic via --creation-factor.
Follow suit by accepting --creation-factor in combination with
--range-diff when generating a range-diff for a cover-letter.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --range-diff option announces the embedded range-diff generically
as "Range-diff:", however, we can do better when --reroll-count is
specified by emitting "Range-diff against v{n}:" instead.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When submitting a revised a patch series, the --range-diff option embeds
a range-diff in the cover letter showing changes since the previous
version of the patch series. The argument to --range-diff is a simple
revision naming the tip of the previous series, which works fine if the
previous and current versions of the patch series share a common base.
However, it fails if the revision ranges of the old and new versions of
the series are disjoint. To address this shortcoming, extend
--range-diff to also accept an explicit revision range for the previous
series. For example:
git format-patch --cover-letter --range-diff=v1~3..v1 -3 v2
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When submitting a revised version of a patch series, it can be helpful
(to reviewers) to include a summary of changes since the previous
attempt in the form of a range-diff, however, doing so involves manually
copy/pasting the diff into the cover letter.
Add a --range-diff option to automate this process. The argument to
--range-diff specifies the tip of the previous attempt against which to
generate the range-diff. For example:
git format-patch --cover-letter --range-diff=v1 -3 v2
(At this stage, the previous attempt and the patch series being
formatted must share a common base, however, a subsequent enhancement
will make it possible to specify an explicit revision range for the
previous attempt.)
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When submitting a revised version of a patch or series, it can be
helpful (to reviewers) to include a summary of changes since the
previous attempt in the form of an interdiff, typically in the cover
letter. However, it is occasionally useful, despite making for a noisy
read, to insert an interdiff into the commentary section of the lone
patch of a 1-patch series.
Therefore, extend "git format-patch --interdiff=<prev>" to insert an
interdiff into the commentary section of a lone patch rather than
requiring a cover letter. The interdiff is indented to avoid confusing
git-am and human readers into considering it part of the patch proper.
Implementation note: Generating an interdiff for insertion into the
commentary section of a patch which itself is currently being generated
requires invoking the diffing machinery recursively. However, the
machinery does not (presently) support this since it uses global state.
Consequently, we need to take care to stash away the state of the
in-progress operation while generating the interdiff, and restore it
after.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A future change will allow "git format-patch --interdiff=<prev> -1" to
insert an interdiff into the commentary section of the lone patch of a
1-patch series. However, to prevent the inserted interdiff from
confusing git-am, as well as human readers, it needs to be indented.
Therefore, teach show_interdiff() how to indent.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Denton Liu