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[RFC PATCHv3 4/4] am: add gitk patch format

From
Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 5, 2014, 10:06 UTC
Message-ID
<1409911611-20370-5-git-send-email-judge.packham@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<1409911611-20370-1-git-send-email-judge.packham@gmail.com>

Patches created using gitk's "write commit to file" functionality (which uses 'git diff-tree -p --pretty' under the hood) need some massaging in order to apply cleanly. This consists of dropping the 'commit' line automatically determining the subject and removing leading whitespace.

Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
---
This hasn't materially changed from the version Junio expressed
reservations about[1]. It solves my immediate problem but perhaps this
(as well as stgit and hg) belong as external filters in a pipeline
before git am. Or maybe mailsplit should absorb the functionality?
[1] - http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/256426
 Documentation/git-am.txt |  3 ++-
 git-am.sh                | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 t/t4150-am.sh            | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt
index 9adce37..b59d2b3 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-am.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt
@@ -101,7 +101,8 @@ default.   You can use `--no-utf8` to override this.
 	By default the command will try to detect the patch format
 	automatically. This option allows the user to bypass the automatic
 	detection and specify the patch format that the patch(es) should be
-	interpreted as. Valid formats are mbox, stgit, stgit-series and hg.
+	interpreted as. Valid formats are mbox, stgit, stgit-series, hg and
+	gitk.
 
 -i::
 --interactive::
diff --git a/git-am.sh b/git-am.sh
index fade7f8..5d69c89 100755
--- a/git-am.sh
+++ b/git-am.sh
@@ -227,6 +227,9 @@ check_patch_format () {
 		"# HG changeset patch")
 			patch_format=hg
 			;;
+		'commit '*)
+			patch_format=gitk
+			;;
 		*)
 			# if the second line is empty and the third is
 			# a From, Author or Date entry, this is very
@@ -357,6 +360,39 @@ split_patches () {
 		this=
 		msgnum=
 		;;
+	gitk)
+		# These patches are generates with 'git diff-tree -p --pretty'
+		# we discard the 'commit' line, after that the first line not
+		# starting with 'Author:' or 'Date:' is the subject. We also
+		# need to strip leading whitespace from the message body.
+		this=0
+		for gitk in "$@"
+		do
+			this=$(expr "$this" + 1)
+			msgnum=$(printf "%0${prec}d" $this)
+			@@PERL@@ -ne 'BEGIN { $subject = 0; $diff = 0; }
+				if (!$diff) { s/^    // ; }
+				if ($subject > 1) { print ; }
+				elsif (/^commit\s.*$/) { next ; }
+				elsif (/^\s+$/) { next ; }
+				elsif (/^Author:/) { s/Author/From/ ; print ; }
+				elsif (/^Date:/) { print ;}
+				elsif (/^diff --git/) { $diff = 1 ; print ;}
+				elsif ($subject) {
+					$subject = 2 ;
+					print "\n" ;
+					print ;
+				} else {
+					print "Subject: ", $_ ;
+					$subject = 1;
+				}
+			' <"$gitk" >"$dotest/$msgnum" || clean_abort
+
+		done
+		echo "$this" >"$dotest/last"
+		this=
+		msgnum=
+		;;
 	*)
 		if test -n "$patch_format"
 		then
diff --git a/t/t4150-am.sh b/t/t4150-am.sh
index 8ee81cf..5d4f7be 100755
--- a/t/t4150-am.sh
+++ b/t/t4150-am.sh
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ test_expect_success setup '
 		echo "---" &&
 		git diff-tree --stat -p second | sed -e "1d"
 	} > patch1-hg.eml &&
+	git diff-tree -p --pretty second >patch1-gitk.eml &&
 
 	sed -n -e "3,\$p" msg >file &&
 	git add file &&
@@ -239,6 +240,28 @@ test_expect_failure 'am applies patch using --patch-format=hg' '
 	git diff --exit-code second
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'am applies patch generated by gitk' '
+	rm -fr .git/rebase-apply &&
+	git reset --hard &&
+	git checkout first &&
+	git am patch1-gitk.eml &&
+	test_path_is_missing .git/rebase-apply &&
+	git diff --exit-code second &&
+	test "$(git rev-parse second)" = "$(git rev-parse HEAD)" &&
+	test "$(git rev-parse second^)" = "$(git rev-parse HEAD^)"
+'
+
+test_expect_failure 'am applies patch using --patch-format=gitk' '
+	rm -fr .git/rebase-apply &&
+	git reset --hard &&
+	git checkout first &&
+	git am --patch-format=gitk <patch1-gitk.eml &&
+	test_path_is_missing .git/rebase-apply &&
+	git diff --exit-code second &&
+	test "$(git rev-parse second)" = "$(git rev-parse HEAD)" &&
+	test "$(git rev-parse second^)" = "$(git rev-parse HEAD^)"
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'setup: new author and committer' '
 	GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Another Thor" &&
 	GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="a.thor@example.com" &&
-- 
2.1.0.64.gc343089
Previous: Chris Packham
Message 13 of 13 in “[RFC PATCHv3 0/4] am: patch-format”
  1. Chris PackhamSep 5, 2014
  2. 1/4 am: avoid re-directing stdin twiceChris Packham, Sep 5, 2014
  3. Johannes SixtSep 5, 2014
  4. Chris PackhamSep 5, 2014
  5. Junio C HamanoSep 5, 2014
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 5, 2014
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 5, 2014
  8. Stephen BoydSep 5, 2014
  9. Junio C HamanoSep 6, 2014
  10. Torsten BögershausenSep 6, 2014
  11. 2/4 t/am: add test for stgit patch formatChris Packham, Sep 5, 2014
  12. 3/4 t/am: add tests for hg patch formatChris Packham, Sep 5, 2014
  13. 4/4 am: add gitk patch formatChris Packham, Sep 5, 2014

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