Re: [PATCH] format-patch: allow --no-patch to disable patch output

From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 8, 2016, 18:34 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xrYMqcohYpWUpgAu1K=0N-3TgQi0_1sQ+z4v7nCPGcYSQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqh9fcvtqg.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> So if I want to get the summary of a patch out of a commit without the
>> actual diff what would you suggest?
>
> "git log --stat"?
>
> If you have a set of (discrete) commits, "git show --stat A B C"?
>
>> Basically, I have a process where we have post processed code, and I
>> want to be able to generate a "patch" that shows the diff only of the
>> post-processed code, ie:
>
> If you want to script and depend on the exact output, you cannot
> depend on "log" or "show", so you would likely be doing "cat-file
> commit" for log message part and "diff-tree" (with options like -p
> and --stat) for the patch part, I guess.
>

The diff is being done on separate post-processed code, I can do that part. I just couldn't figure out how to get the same "header" as format-patch, but without the diff, which is when I saw no-patch, and then saw that it didn't work.

Thanks, Jake