Re: help for git format-patch lost diffstat

From: FanJun Kong <bh1scw@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 24, 2022, 06:47 UTC
Message-ID: <20220424064730.fdhrgkkkegxbnn3l@kong-HP>
In-Reply-To: <20220424064114.nwzldz5s2bnkrlu5@kong-HP>

BTW:

I tried 4 different version of git:

git version 2.34.1 fedora git version 2.32.0 (Apple Git-132) git version 2.36.0 ubuntu git version 2.30.2 debian

The result of test is all the same.

On 24 Apr 22 ◦ 14:41, FanJun Kong wrote:

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> Hi, 
> 
> Here are steps of what I am doing:
> 
> First, I created two commits to a demo project.
> 
> when I use command:
> git format-patch --cover-letter -1
> 
> cat 0000-cover-letter.patch
> 
> From 2e62ef46d5627319c4cb11be81079e3364fca40c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: FanJun Kong <bh1scw@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2022 14:31:45 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH 0/1] *** SUBJECT HERE ***
> 
> *** BLURB HERE ***
> 
> FanJun Kong (1):
>   Second commit.
> 
>    1.c | 4 ++++
>    1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> --
> 2.32.0 (Apple Git-132)
> 
> ok, you can see the cover letter has diffstat, just above "--".
> 
> Then I change command to:
> 
> git format-patch --cover-letter -2
> 
> cat 0000-cover-letter.patch
> 
> From 2e62ef46d5627319c4cb11be81079e3364fca40c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: FanJun Kong <bh1scw@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2022 14:34:48 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH 0/2] *** SUBJECT HERE ***
> 
> *** BLURB HERE ***
> 
> FanJun Kong (2):
>   First commit.
>   Second commit.
> 
> --
> 2.32.0 (Apple Git-132)
> 
> Comparing with last command, I just want to get 2 patches,
> but this time the diffstat is missing.
> 
> I am not sure if this is a bug or I miss some options.
> 
> I googled this issue, but not got too much.
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> Fanjun Kong