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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2024-05-06 09:40:31 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2024-05-06 11:57:22 -0700 |
| commit | c22d41d641711879c57299244ae13b6c4a215fee (patch) | |
| tree | 9b44c53d41b31d75cf154b3137f5cd17bd6977af /Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | |
| parent | 786a3e4b8d754d2b14b1208b98eeb0a554ef19a8 (diff) | |
| download | git-c22d41d641711879c57299244ae13b6c4a215fee.tar.xz | |
format-patch: run range-diff with larger creation-factor
We see too often that a range-diff added to format-patch output
shows too many "unmatched" patches. This is because the default
value for creation-factor is set to a relatively low value.
It may be justified for other uses (like you have a yet-to-be-sent
new iteration of your series, and compare it against the 'seen'
branch that has an older iteration, probably with the '--left-only'
option, to pick out only your patches while ignoring the others) of
"range-diff" command, but when the command is run as part of the
format-patch, the user _knows_ and expects that the patches in the
old and the new iterations roughly correspond to each other, so we
can and should use a much higher default.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-format-patch.txt')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt index 728bb3821c..b72f87b114 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt @@ -346,6 +346,11 @@ material (this may change in the future). between the previous and current series of patches by adjusting the creation/deletion cost fudge factor. See linkgit:git-range-diff[1]) for details. ++ +Defaults to 999 (the linkgit:git-range-diff[1] uses 60), as the use +case is to show comparison with an older iteration of the same +topic and the tool should find more correspondence between the two +sets of patches. --notes[=<ref>]:: --no-notes:: |