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format-patch: Always generate a patch

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Jeff King recently reinstated -p to suppress the default diffstat
(as -p used to work before 68daa64, about 14 months ago).

However, -p is also needed in combination with certain options
(e.g. --stat or --numstat) in order to produce any patch at all.
The documentation does not mention this.

Since the purpose of format-patch is to produce a patch that
can be emailed, it does not make sense that certain combination
of options will suppress the generation of the patch itself.

Therefore:

* Update 'git format-patch' to always generate a patch.

* Since the --name-only, --name-status, and --check suppresses
  the generation of the patch, disallow those options,
  and remove the description of them in the documentation.

* Remove the reference to -p in the description of -U.

* Remove the descriptions of the options that are synonyms for -p
  plus another option (--patch-with-raw and --patch-with-stat).

* While at it, slightly tweak the description of -p itself
  to say that it generates "plain patches", so that you can
  think of -p as "plain patch" as an mnemonic aid.

Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Björn Gustavsson
2009-11-07 10:51:56 +01:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 1d46f2ea14
commit 02bc5b03f5
3 changed files with 47 additions and 10 deletions
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@ -536,4 +536,22 @@ test_expect_success 'format-patch --signoff' '
grep "^Signed-off-by: $GIT_COMMITTER_NAME <$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL>"
'
echo "fatal: --name-only does not make sense" > expect.name-only
echo "fatal: --name-status does not make sense" > expect.name-status
echo "fatal: --check does not make sense" > expect.check
test_expect_success 'options no longer allowed for format-patch' '
test_must_fail git format-patch --name-only 2> output &&
test_cmp expect.name-only output &&
test_must_fail git format-patch --name-status 2> output &&
test_cmp expect.name-status output &&
test_must_fail git format-patch --check 2> output &&
test_cmp expect.check output'
test_expect_success 'format-patch --numstat should produce a patch' '
git format-patch --numstat --stdout master..side |
grep "^diff --git a/" |
wc -l |
xargs test 6 = '
test_done