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Wed, 2 Sep 2026 09:20:12 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ThreadId: Aaez0ouLjM7B Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:19:52 +0200 From: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" To: "Junio C Hamano" Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <16315616-097a-4fe2-8665-010e424afd8b@app.fastmail.com> <9335a35f-e9c0-4e62-812c-e5855c201003@app.fastmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] format-patch: learn --[no-]range-diff-notes Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Aug 28, 2026, at 19:13, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" writes: > >>> I do not know. My preference actually is not to introuce a new >>> option whose interaction with the existing --notes option cannot be >>> defined in simple terms. >> >> Let's drop this topic then. > > That is fine by me. I was hoping that you'd come up with a way to > add this new option with simpler-to-explain interactions. E.g., > when only --notes exists on the command line, it is used as the > material compared by the range-diff and as the material inserted > into the final output, but when both options exist, they work > independently, i.e., --notes gets used only as the final output, > while --range-diff-notes gets used only for comparison material, > or something like that. This is how it works. The `--range-diff-notes` behavior that the doc discusses is just the special case when the list of notes for the range diff is empty. That this wasn=E2=80=99t clear is the fault of the doc here.