Re: [PATCH QGit RFC] Fix "Save patch..." on a commit range

[Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 22:13, Markus
Heidelberg<markus.heidelberg@web.de> wrote:
> Markus Heidelberg, 13.06.2009:
>>
>> I tested with the latest qgit.git and with QGit 2.2 from my
>> distribution. All on Gentoo Linux.
>>
>> I just built QGit 2.3, this has the same problems.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> I will try to reproduce on Windows, probably after this weekend.
>
> Some news, tested with the 4 commits in git.git around v1.6.3 as before:
>
> It works correctly with QGit-2.3 installed from the Windows installer
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/qgit).
>
> It works reversed when using a self-compiled qgit.
> gcc: mingw-gcc 3.4.5
> Qt: 4.4.1
>
> Reversed means, git-format-patch is invoked like this:
>    git format-patch v1.6.3..v1.6.3~3^
> and doesn't produce patch files, instead of:
>    git format-patch v1.6.3~3^..v1.6.3
>
> The strange behaviour of getting only 2 patches on Linux, I couldn't
> reproduce on Windows.
>
> You use MSVC, don't you? Can you please try with mingw? It would be
> really helpful, if you could reproduce it.
>
> Markus
>
>

This is really strange !

Yes I use MSVC, I cannot try mingw-gcc because I should recompile all
Qt with gcc.

But I can test on Linux tomorrow evening and see what's happens
there...but there is _nothing_ in the code that is platform dependent,
see Git::formatPatch() in git.cpp