From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 18:18:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] format-patch: clear UNINTERESTING flag before prepare_bases
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kakUs9A4jSXv6NtsAQtOcaHRPTZOA-X_t_hUHsh50p=+A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180604150543.7304-1-xiaolong.ye@intel.com>

On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 8:09 AM Xiaolong Ye <xiaolong.ye@intel.com> wrote:
>
> When users specify the commit range with 'Z..C' pattern for format-patch, all
> the parents of Z (including Z) would be marked as UNINTERESTING which would
> prevent revision walk in prepare_bases from getting the prerequisite commits,
> thus `git format-patch --base <base_commit_sha> Z..C` won't be able to generate
> the list of prerequisite patch ids. Clear UNINTERESTING flag with
> clear_object_flags solves this issue.

This makes sense;
Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>