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authorEric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>2018-07-22 05:57:14 -0400
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2018-08-14 14:27:04 -0700
commit2e6fd71a52f5bde1c4036b8b0c586ae446f620f8 (patch)
treef841048d434b7cbfa3fbe4e64d3c779bd27e8015 /builtin/log.c
parentformat-patch: add --range-diff option to embed diff in cover letter (diff)
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format-patch: extend --range-diff to accept revision range
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'builtin/log.c')
-rw-r--r--builtin/log.c16
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/log.c b/builtin/log.c
index 4b65673f12..fa54090b02 100644
--- a/builtin/log.c
+++ b/builtin/log.c
@@ -1448,12 +1448,21 @@ static const char *diff_title(struct strbuf *sb, int reroll_count,
static void infer_range_diff_ranges(struct strbuf *r1,
struct strbuf *r2,
const char *prev,
+ struct commit *origin,
struct commit *head)
{
const char *head_oid = oid_to_hex(&head->object.oid);
- strbuf_addf(r1, "%s..%s", head_oid, prev);
- strbuf_addf(r2, "%s..%s", prev, head_oid);
+ if (!strstr(prev, "..")) {
+ strbuf_addf(r1, "%s..%s", head_oid, prev);
+ strbuf_addf(r2, "%s..%s", prev, head_oid);
+ } else if (!origin) {
+ die(_("failed to infer range-diff ranges"));
+ } else {
+ strbuf_addstr(r1, prev);
+ strbuf_addf(r2, "%s..%s",
+ oid_to_hex(&origin->object.oid), head_oid);
+ }
}
int cmd_format_patch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
@@ -1802,7 +1811,8 @@ int cmd_format_patch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
if (!cover_letter)
die(_("--range-diff requires --cover-letter"));
- infer_range_diff_ranges(&rdiff1, &rdiff2, rdiff_prev, list[0]);
+ infer_range_diff_ranges(&rdiff1, &rdiff2, rdiff_prev,
+ origin, list[0]);
rev.rdiff1 = rdiff1.buf;
rev.rdiff2 = rdiff2.buf;
rev.creation_factor = RANGE_DIFF_CREATION_FACTOR_DEFAULT;