[PATCH 0/4] am: provide a replacement for "cat .git/rebase-apply/patch"

[pbonzini@redhat.com]

From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

When "git am --show-current-patch" was added in commit 984913a210 ("am:
add --show-current-patch", 2018-02-12), "git am" started recommending it
as a replacement for .git/rebase-merge/patch.  Unfortunately the suggestion
is misguided; for example, the output "git am --show-current-patch" cannot
be passed to "git apply" if it is encoded as quoted-printable or base64.

This series adds a new mode to "git am --show-current-patch" in order to
straighten the suggestion.  "--show-current-patch" grows an optional
argument, where the default behavior can now also be obtained with
"--show-current-patch=raw" and ".git/rebase-apply/patch" can be retrieved
with "--show-current-patch=diff".

This requires a little surgery in patches 1 and 2 in order to convert
--show-current-patch from OPTION_CMDMODE to OPTION_CALLBACK.  After this,
the last two patches implement the new syntax and feature.

Thanks,

Paolo

Paolo Bonzini (4):
  parse-options: convert "command mode" to a flag
  am: convert "resume" variable to a struct
  am: support --show-current-patch=raw as a synonym
    for--show-current-patch
  am: support --show-current-patch=diff to retrieve
    .git/rebase-apply/patch

 Documentation/git-am.txt               | 10 +--
 builtin/am.c                           | 96 ++++++++++++++++++++------
 contrib/completion/git-completion.bash |  5 ++
 parse-options.c                        | 20 +++---
 parse-options.h                        |  8 +--
 t/helper/test-parse-options.c          |  2 +
 t/t0040-parse-options.sh               | 18 +++++
 t/t4150-am.sh                          | 20 ++++++
 8 files changed, 140 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

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