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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Perhaps we want {diff,log,format}.noprefix and friends?
Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 10:21:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqh75mwycb.fsf_-_@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN3rvwBWBPLB+Pm14S5Nb9LOV6ajhT8qMbwi5bBm1pK_8AgN5g@mail.gmail.com> (Theodore Dubois's message of "Tue, 17 May 2022 10:02:36 -0700")

>>   git -c diff.noprefix=no format-patch ...
>>
>> to cancel the config. (If that config really does want to be on, that
>> is.)
>>
>> That said, something like
>>
>>   git am -p0 ...
>>
>> should help on the receiving side, by way of skipping fewer path
>> components when applying the patch.

While it is very reasonable for end-users to make the output of
their local "git diff" output to their taste by setting the
diff.noprefix and other configuration options in the diff.*
namespace, it is wrong to inflict such a personal preference on
other project participants by sending such a no-prefix patch via
"git format-patch", when the convention at the receiving project is
to use "git am -p1" to accept them.

We would need to tweak the configuration system so that we can more
easily introduce "format.noprefix" that overrides "diff.noprefix"
only when the command being run is "git format-patch", perhaps?  

As things stand, we could teach builtin/log.c::git_format_config()
about "format.noprefix" and make "git format-patch" pay attention to
that in addition to "diff.noprefix" fairly easily, but such an
approach poorly scales.  When a new configuration gets introduced in
diff.c::git_diff_ui_config(), builtin/log.c::git_format_config()
would also need to be updated.

I initially started writing this with "left over bits" mark, but it
seems it is a bit larger in scope than that.

I also noticed that some format.* configuration variables are parsed
in git_log_config(), not git_format_config(), so "git log" would end
up honoring format.pretty and format.subjectprefix, etc., which look
wrong but probably is way too late to "fix".



      reply	other threads:[~2022-05-18 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20220510220821.1481801-1-tbodt@google.com>
2022-05-14 14:37 ` [PATCH] getpriority: Only getpriority translation the priority values Alejandro Colomar
2022-05-14 15:00   ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-05-14 18:43   ` Martin Ågren
2022-05-14 21:18     ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-05-17 17:02     ` Theodore Dubois
2022-05-18 17:21       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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