git-svn: allow dcommit to take an alternate head

Previously dcommit would unconditionally commit all patches
up-to and including the current HEAD.  Now if an optional
command-line argument is specified, it will only commit
up to the specified revision.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index a45067e164..c589a98630 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -57,11 +57,13 @@ See '<<fetch-args,Additional Fetch Arguments>>' if you are interested in
 manually joining branches on commit.
 
 'dcommit'::
-	Commit all diffs from the current HEAD directly to the SVN
+	Commit all diffs from a specified head directly to the SVN
 	repository, and then rebase or reset (depending on whether or
-	not there is a diff between SVN and HEAD).  It is recommended
+	not there is a diff between SVN and head).  It is recommended
 	that you run git-svn fetch and rebase (not pull) your commits
 	against the latest changes in the SVN repository.
+	An optional command-line argument may be specified as an
+	alternative to HEAD.
 	This is advantageous over 'commit' (below) because it produces
 	cleaner, more linear history.
 
diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index 06e89ffecf..819584baf5 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -604,8 +604,9 @@ sub commit_lib {
 }
 
 sub dcommit {
+	my $head = shift || 'HEAD';
 	my $gs = "refs/remotes/$GIT_SVN";
-	chomp(my @refs = safe_qx(qw/git-rev-list --no-merges/, "$gs..HEAD"));
+	chomp(my @refs = safe_qx(qw/git-rev-list --no-merges/, "$gs..$head"));
 	my $last_rev;
 	foreach my $d (reverse @refs) {
 		if (quiet_run('git-rev-parse','--verify',"$d~1") != 0) {
@@ -632,16 +633,16 @@ sub dcommit {
 	}
 	return if $_dry_run;
 	fetch();
-	my @diff = safe_qx(qw/git-diff-tree HEAD/, $gs);
+	my @diff = safe_qx('git-diff-tree', $head, $gs);
 	my @finish;
 	if (@diff) {
 		@finish = qw/rebase/;
 		push @finish, qw/--merge/ if $_merge;
 		push @finish, "--strategy=$_strategy" if $_strategy;
-		print STDERR "W: HEAD and $gs differ, using @finish:\n", @diff;
+		print STDERR "W: $head and $gs differ, using @finish:\n", @diff;
 	} else {
-		print "No changes between current HEAD and $gs\n",
-		      "Hard resetting to the latest $gs\n";
+		print "No changes between current $head and $gs\n",
+		      "Resetting to the latest $gs\n";
 		@finish = qw/reset --mixed/;
 	}
 	sys('git', @finish, $gs);