From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9154C1F51C for ; Wed, 30 May 2018 07:08:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967924AbeE3HH6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 May 2018 03:07:58 -0400 Received: from mga07.intel.com ([134.134.136.100]:63883 "EHLO mga07.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935905AbeE3HH5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 May 2018 03:07:57 -0400 X-Amp-Result: UNSCANNABLE X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga007.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.52]) by orsmga105.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 30 May 2018 00:07:56 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.49,459,1520924400"; d="scan'208";a="43252374" Received: from yexl-desktop.sh.intel.com (HELO localhost) ([10.239.159.124]) by fmsmga007.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 30 May 2018 00:07:55 -0700 Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 15:04:48 +0800 From: Ye Xiaolong To: Eduardo Habkost Cc: Fengguang Wu , git@vger.kernel.org, Stefan Beller , Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: format-patch: no 'prerequisite-patch-id' info when specifying commit range Message-ID: <20180530070448.GC27396@yexl-desktop> Mail-Followup-To: Eduardo Habkost , Fengguang Wu , git@vger.kernel.org, Stefan Beller , Junio C Hamano References: <20180529184651.GB14525@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180529184651.GB14525@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Hi, Eduardo On 05/29, Eduardo Habkost wrote: >Hi, > >I'm trying to use git-format-patch --base to generate the list of >prerequisite patches for a series, but the behavior of git >doesn't seem to match the documentation: > >When using a commit count (e.g.: "-2"), git-format-patch generates the >prerequisite-patch-id lines as expected. But when using a commit range like >"Z..C", the prerequisite-patch-id lines are missing. > >Is this intentional, or it is a bug? Thanks for reporting, it seems an unexpected behavior, I'll look into it. Thanks, Xiaolong > >Example using git.git commits: > > $ git format-patch --stdout --cover-letter --stdout --base b7b1fca17~5 -2 b7b1fca17 | egrep 'base-commit|prereq' > base-commit: 2738744426c161a98c2ec494d41241a4c5eef9ef > prerequisite-patch-id: 080ac2faf21a6a7f9b23cb68286866d026a92930 > prerequisite-patch-id: e3ee77500c9aa70248e7ee814662d01f79d0dcdb > prerequisite-patch-id: 6d831e23e33075681e6b74553151a32b73092013 > (ehabkost@localhost:~/rh/proj/git (ok) 1j) > $ git format-patch --stdout --cover-letter --stdout --base b7b1fca17~5 b7b1fca17~2..b7b1fca17 | egrep 'base-commit|prereq' > base-commit: 2738744426c161a98c2ec494d41241a4c5eef9ef > $ git --version > git version 2.17.1 > $ git log --graph --pretty=oneline -6 b7b1fca17 > * b7b1fca175f1ed7933f361028c631b9ac86d868d fsck: complain when .gitmodules is a symlink > * 73c3f0f704a91b6792e0199a3f3ab6e3a1971675 index-pack: check .gitmodules files with --strict > * 6e328d6caef218db320978e3e251009135d87d0e unpack-objects: call fsck_finish() after fscking objects > * 1995b5e03e1cc97116be58cdc0502d4a23547856 fsck: call fsck_finish() after fscking objects > * ed8b10f631c9a71df3351d46187bf7f3fa4f9b7e fsck: check .gitmodules content > * 2738744426c161a98c2ec494d41241a4c5eef9ef fsck: handle promisor objects in .gitmodules check > $ > >If I understand the documentation correctly, both "-3 C" or "Z..C" were >supposed to be equivalent: > >> With `git format-patch --base=P -3 C` (or variants thereof, e.g. with >> `--cover-letter` or using `Z..C` instead of `-3 C` to specify the >> range), the base tree information block is shown at the end of the >> first message the command outputs (either the first patch, or the >> cover letter), like this: >> >> ------------ >> base-commit: P >> prerequisite-patch-id: X >> prerequisite-patch-id: Y >> prerequisite-patch-id: Z >> ------------ > >-- >Eduardo