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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2018-11-30 13:27:11 +0900
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2018-11-30 13:47:55 +0900
commitd8981c3f885ceaddfec0e545b0f995b96e5ec58f (patch)
tree7337c0018c55bb91e000b78c8c2b8e973e71e070 /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'ja/i18n-fix' (diff)
downloadtgif-d8981c3f885ceaddfec0e545b0f995b96e5ec58f.tar.xz
format-patch: do not let its diff-options affect --range-diff
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>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index aba4c5febe..27304428a1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
@@ -250,6 +250,11 @@ feeding the result to `git send-email`.
feature/v2`), or a revision range if the two versions of the series are
disjoint (for example `git format-patch --cover-letter
--range-diff=feature/v1~3..feature/v1 -3 feature/v2`).
++
+Note that diff options passed to the command affect how the primary
+product of `format-patch` is generated, and they are not passed to
+the underlying `range-diff` machinery used to generate the cover-letter
+material (this may change in the future).
--creation-factor=<percent>::
Used with `--range-diff`, tweak the heuristic which matches up commits