Re: [BUG?] "format-patch --range-diff=$commit HEAD^ HEAD" fails

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 20, 2024, 17:30 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqcyqk3ps8.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqbk65jmqp.fsf@gitster.g>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Immediately after "git commit --amend" of a single commit,
> this fails:
>
>     $ git format-patch --range-diff=@{1} -v2 HEAD^ HEAD

Please scratch this one. I simply forgot that we have lost the

	git format-patch <his> <mine>

syntax long time ago during Git 1.4.0 timeframe [*]. I somehow was confused since we still have the corresponding

	rebase <since-onto> <mine>

syntax.

[Footnote]
 * I suspect this may not have been a conscious design decision but
   by accident during the rewrite of the command in C that I started
   at 3eefc189 (Tentative built-in format-patch., 2006-04-18) and
   whose final shape was documented by 2052d146 (Update
   documentation for git-format-patch, 2006-05-31).