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Re: [PATCH RFC GSoC] gitweb: Use -M option while using format-patch

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Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Date
May 10, 2010, 16:56 UTC
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On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
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> CC-ed Guiseppe Bilotta, author of 'patch' and 'patches' views
> (you can find this information using "git blame" or "git log --grep").
>
> On Mon, 10 May 2010, Pavan Kumar Sunkara wrote:
>
>> Add option '-M' to use with format-patch whcih detects
>> renames in the commit.
>
>  Subject: [PATCH RFC GSoC] gitweb: Use @diff_opts while using format-patch
>
>  Make git-format-patch (used by 'patch' and 'patches' views) use the
>  same rename detection options that git-diff and git-diff-tree (used
>  by 'commitdiff', 'blobdiff', etc.) use.
Excellent idea.
> Note that I am not sure if it is really a good change, as it might
> create patches that (currently) can be applied only with git.

I think we can live with that. If we get strong complains about this, we can always introduce support for extra options to cancel the rename detection. (Also, the upcoming GNU patch release seems to support the git diff format, including copies and renames.)

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> -- >8 --
> Subject: [PATCH RFC GSoC] gitweb: Use @diff_opts while using format-patch
>
> Make git-format-patch (used by 'patch' and 'patches' views) use the
> same rename detection options that git-diff and git-diff-tree (used
> by 'commitdiff', 'blobdiff', etc.) use.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavan Kumar Sunkara <pavan.sss1991@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
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> ---
>  gitweb/gitweb.perl |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git i/gitweb/gitweb.perl w/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> index 225f404..d983ce5 100755
> --- i/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> +++ w/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> @@ -6295,8 +6295,8 @@ sub git_commitdiff {
>                        }
>                        push @commit_spec, '--root', $hash;
>                }
> -               open $fd, "-|", git_cmd(), "format-patch", '--encoding=utf8',
> -                       '--stdout', @commit_spec
> +               open $fd, "-|", git_cmd(), "format-patch", @diff_opts,
> +                       '--encoding=utf8', '--stdout', @commit_spec
>                        or die_error(500, "Open git-format-patch failed");
>        } else {
>                die_error(400, "Unknown commitdiff format");
>
-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
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Message 3 of 4 in “gitweb: Use -M option while using format-patch”
  1. gitweb: Use -M option while using format-patchPavan Kumar Sunkara, May 10, 2010
  2. Jakub NarebskiMay 10, 2010
  3. Giuseppe BilottaMay 10, 2010
  4. Petr BaudisMay 10, 2010

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