[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) writes:
> What format-patch does is currently is fine. If format-patch would
> simply notice the case and fail gracefully that would be sufficient to
> avoid giving false impressions.
Hmph. Since it uses merge-order, We should be able to change it
use the tagged output format of rev-list to detect the revision
list discontinuity and skip generating diff for such. Or as you
suggest just run "diff-tree with the first parent".
I've been wanting to update format-patch to take the commit
begin-end pair in the rev-parse format, that is:
$ git format-patch his..mine
I am reluctant to actually do this right away, because this is
an incompatible change from the current format:
$ git format-patch his mine
The same goes for rebase (and therefore cherry). I could use an
ugly heuristics for backward compatibility like "if invoked with
exactly two parameters, and there is no prefix ^ nor .. in these
two, then use the old interpretation, otherwise give them to
rev-parse", but I think this is ugly.
So my question to the list is: do people mind this change?
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