From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: git-format-patch little gripe Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:26:29 -0800 Message-ID: <7v3b905fqi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <7vwt6cbwzq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20061103195253.9244.qmail@web31814.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 22:26:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org In-Reply-To: <20061103195253.9244.qmail@web31814.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (Luben Tuikov's message of "Fri, 3 Nov 2006 11:52:53 -0800 (PST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gg7Ui-0004jz-I3 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:26:37 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932122AbWKCW0c (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Nov 2006 17:26:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932173AbWKCW0c (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Nov 2006 17:26:32 -0500 Received: from fed1rmmtao09.cox.net ([68.230.241.30]:21204 "EHLO fed1rmmtao09.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932122AbWKCW0b (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Nov 2006 17:26:31 -0500 Received: from fed1rmimpo01.cox.net ([70.169.32.71]) by fed1rmmtao09.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20061103222630.RTUL16798.fed1rmmtao09.cox.net@fed1rmimpo01.cox.net>; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 17:26:30 -0500 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.5.247.80]) by fed1rmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id iNS81V00i1kojtg0000000 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:26:09 -0500 To: Luben Tuikov Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Luben Tuikov writes: > Also I doubt how many people actually have coded in their scripts > "git-format-patch " to mead by default "..HEAD" -- I'd think > that maintainers always want to know the "end point" and would always > use the .. format, instead of presuming where/what their HEAD is. Well, the answer would be "do not script around Porcelain". > Sorry it's my rant. I know it's not your fault. I do not even think there is any "fault" there, to be honest, so there is no need to apologize. The format-patch command does what it was designed to do and does it well -- format a sequence of patches for upstream submission. If you want a single patch, you can always say "git show", by the way.