Re: [PATCH] range-diff: add a --no-patch option to show a summary

> On Wed, 7 Nov 2018, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 6 Nov 2018, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Nov 06 2018, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Mon, 5 Nov 2018, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> On Mon, Nov 05 2018, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> > On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 3:07 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >> >> Add a --no-patch option which shows which changes got removed, added
> > > >> >> or moved etc., without showing the diff associated with them.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > This option existed in the very first version[1] of range-diff (then
> > > >> > called branch-diff) implemented by Dscho, although it was called
> > > >> > --no-patches (with an "es"), which it inherited from tbdiff. I think
> > > >> > someone (possibly me) pointed out that --no-patch (sans "es") would be
> > > >> > more consistent with existing Git options. I don't recall why Dscho
> > > >> > removed the option during the re-rolls, but the explanation may be in
> > > >> > that thread.
> > > >>
> > > >> Thanks for digging. Big thread, not going to re-read it now. I'd just
> > > >> like to have this.
> > > >
> > > > In my hands, the well-documented `-s` option works (see e.g.
> > > > https://git-scm.com/docs/git-diff#git-diff--s), although I have to admit
> > > > that the `git-range-diff` manual does not talk about the diff-options.
> > > >
> > > > And for the record, for me, `git range-diff A...B --no-patch` *already*
> > > > works.
> > > 
> > > Neither of those works for me without my patch. E.g.
> > > 
> > >     ./git-range-diff -s 711aaa392f...a5ba8f2101
> > >     ./git-range-diff --no-patch 711aaa392f...a5ba8f2101
> > >
> > > This is on current next, 2.19.1.1182.g4ecb1133ce. What version are you
> > > on?
> > 
> > I tried it with git version 2.19.0.windows.1.
> > 
> > To verify, I repeated this with `next` (git version
> > 2.19.1.1215.g8438c0b2453a):
> > 
> > ./git range-diff -s 711aaa392f...a5ba8f2101
> > fatal: unrecognized argument: --output-indicator-new=>
> > error: could not parse log for 'a5ba8f2101..711aaa392f'
> > 
> > Which means that something broke rather dramatically between
> > v2.19.0.windows.1 and 8438c0b2453a.
> 
> Nevermind, this was solved by passing `--exec-path=$PWD`. And *now* I can
> reproduce your finding.