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Re: [PATCH 0/3] format-patch: --interiff/--range-diff tweaks

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 8, 2020, 22:10 UTC
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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:
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> This series addresses a few comments[2,3,4,5] which cropped up during
> review of the series which added --interdiff and --range-diff options to
> git-format-patch[1]. That series made it into 'next' before I could address
> the comments, so these patches (based upon 'master') make minor tweaks
> "incrementally" (over 2 years late).

The last step subtly changes the behaviour, if I am reading its description correctly. Does it deserve a documentation update, or are we just making the code behave "better" but still within the boundary of how it is documented to work, hence no need to update the doc (but deserves an advertisement in the release notes)?

Thanks.
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Message 5 of 6 in “format-patch: --interiff/--range-diff tweaks”
  1. 0/3 format-patch: --interiff/--range-diff tweaksEric Sunshine, Sep 8, 2020
  2. 1/3 diff: move show_interdiff() from its own file to diff-libEric Sunshine, Sep 8, 2020
  3. 2/3 diff-lib: tighten show_interdiff()'s interfaceEric Sunshine, Sep 8, 2020
  4. 3/3 format-patch: use 'origin' as start of current-series-range when knownEric Sunshine, Sep 8, 2020
  5. Junio C HamanoSep 8, 2020
  6. Eric SunshineSep 9, 2020

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