From 02bc5b03f54b51f8b45c81cce74284ced602e6de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Björn Gustavsson Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 10:51:56 +0100 Subject: format-patch: Always generate a patch MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- t/t4014-format-patch.sh | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) (limited to 't/t4014-format-patch.sh') diff --git a/t/t4014-format-patch.sh b/t/t4014-format-patch.sh index cab6ce2e97..5689d590fd 100755 --- a/t/t4014-format-patch.sh +++ b/t/t4014-format-patch.sh @@ -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 -- cgit v1.3-6-g1900