[PATCH] format-patch: use default diff format even with patch options

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 09:38:37PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

This was generated with -U5 to make the first hunk easier to read.

And while doing that, I detected another bug. Or maybe a feature,
depending on your perspective.

-- >8 --
format-patch: use default diff format even with patch options

Previously, running "git format-patch -U5" would cause the
low-level diff machinery to change the diff output format
from "not specified" to "patch". This meant that
format-patch thought we explicitly specified a diff output
format, and would not use the default format. The resulting
message lacked both the diffstat and the summary, as well as
the separating "---".

Now format-patch explicitly checks for this condition and
uses the default. That means that "git format-patch -p" will
now have the "-p" ignored.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <redacted>
---
Maybe this is intentional, and that by asking for "-U" I am explicitly
saying "I really want the patch format, not the default." But I think
this more reasonably maps to what the user expects.

I am a little uncomfortable hurting anyone who thought that
"format-patch -p" was a good idea. OTOH:

  1. I have to question why they were using format-patch in the first
     place. Probably git-log --pretty=email would be a better fit.

  2. Their mails were already broken, since the presence of the diffstat
     is what triggers the "---" divider.

 builtin-log.c           |    3 ++-
 t/t4014-format-patch.sh |   25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin-log.c b/builtin-log.c
index 9204ffd..1d3c5cb 100644
--- a/builtin-log.c
+++ b/builtin-log.c

@@ -932,7 +932,8 @@ int cmd_format_patch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	if (argc > 1)
 		die ("unrecognized argument: %s", argv[1]);
 
-	if (!rev.diffopt.output_format)
+	if (!rev.diffopt.output_format
+		|| rev.diffopt.output_format == DIFF_FORMAT_PATCH)
 		rev.diffopt.output_format = DIFF_FORMAT_DIFFSTAT | DIFF_FORMAT_SUMMARY | DIFF_FORMAT_PATCH;
 
 	if (!DIFF_OPT_TST(&rev.diffopt, TEXT) && !no_binary_diff)

diff --git a/t/t4014-format-patch.sh b/t/t4014-format-patch.sh
index 7fe853c..9d99dc2 100755
--- a/t/t4014-format-patch.sh
+++ b/t/t4014-format-patch.sh

@@ -230,4 +230,29 @@ test_expect_success 'shortlog of cover-letter wraps overly-long onelines' '
 
 '
 
+cat > expect << EOF
+---
+ file |   16 ++++++++++++++++
+ 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/file b/file
+index 40f36c6..2dc5c23 100644
+--- a/file
++++ b/file
+@@ -13,4 +13,20 @@ C
+ 10
+ D
+ E
+ F
++5
+EOF
+
+test_expect_success 'format-patch respects -U' '
+
+	git format-patch -U4 -2 &&
+	sed -e "1,/^$/d" -e "/^+5/q" < 0001-This-is-an-excessively-long-subject-line-for-a-messa.patch > output &&
+	test_cmp expect output
+
+'
+
 test_done

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