Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2019-12-04

Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] format-patch: teach --no-base

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2019-12-04 17:26:24

René Scharfe [off-list ref] writes:
Clearing the global variable base_auto feels unclean to me, as does the
introduction of a callback for that purpose.  Why not set base_commit
after reading the config and before parsing command line options to
reflect base_auto?  That would achieve the intended precedence in a
simpler way, something like this:
Nice.

quoted hunk
diff --git a/builtin/log.c b/builtin/log.c
index a26f223ab4..af1b0d0209 100644
--- a/builtin/log.c
+++ b/builtin/log.c
@@ -1714,6 +1714,8 @@ int cmd_format_patch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		rev.mime_boundary = default_attach;
 		rev.no_inline = 1;
 	}
+	if (base_auto)
+		base_commit = "auto";

 	/*
 	 * Parse the arguments before setup_revisions(), or something
@@ -1973,7 +1975,7 @@ int cmd_format_patch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	}

 	memset(&bases, 0, sizeof(bases));
-	if (base_commit || base_auto) {
+	if (base_commit) {
 		struct commit *base = get_base_commit(base_commit, list, nr);
 		reset_revision_walk();
 		clear_object_flags(UNINTERESTING);
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