From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] range-diff: treat notes like `log`
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2023 14:20:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230601182020.GC4165405@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8cc8eddfced1b64156008f7f923c430981d472af.1685441207.git.code@khaugsbakk.name>
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 12:41:29PM +0200, Kristoffer Haugsbakk wrote:
> Currently, `range-diff` shows the default notes if no notes-related
> arguments are given. This is also how `log` behaves. But unlike
> `range-diff`, `log` does *not* show the default notes if
> `--notes=<custom>` are given. In other words, this:
>
> git log --notes=custom
>
> is equivalent to this:
>
> git log --no-notes --notes=custom
>
> While:
>
> git range-diff --notes=custom
>
> acts like this:
>
> git log --notes --notes-custom
>
> This can’t be how the user expects `range-diff` to behave given that the
> man page for `range diff` under `--[no-]notes[=<ref>]` says:
>
> > This flag is passed to the git log program (see git-log(1)) that
> > generates the patches.
Yeah, I certainly agree that the behavior of range-diff is surprising,
and that this is a bug.
I'd have expected the solution here would be for range-diff to stop
passing "--notes", and let "log" decide whether to show notes (based on
specific --notes=foo it gets from other_arg).
But...
> This behavior also affects `format-patch` since it uses `range-diff` for
> the cover letter. Unlike `log`, though, `format-patch` is not supposed
> to show the default notes if no notes-related arguments are given.[1]
> But this promise is broken when the range-diff happens to have something
> to say about the changes to the default notes, since that will be shown
> in the cover letter.
>
> Remedy this by co-opting the `--standard-notes` option which has been
> deprecated since ab18b2c0df[2] and which is currently only documented in
> `pretty-options`.
I'm not clear on whether you're actually fixing two separate bugs here,
or if they need to be intertwined.
It seems like passing --standard-notes means that format-patch's
range-diff will still show the standard notes by default. Maybe I'm
misunderstanding the problem, though.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-01 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-30 10:41 [RFC PATCH 0/3] range-diff: treat notes like `log` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-05-30 10:41 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] " Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-06-01 18:20 ` Jeff King [this message]
2023-06-02 10:06 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-05-30 10:41 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] doc: pretty-options: remove documentation for deprecated options Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-05-30 10:41 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] revision: comment `--no-standard-notes` as deprecated Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-06-11 18:15 ` [PATCH v1 0/3] range-diff: treat notes like `log` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-06-11 18:15 ` [PATCH v1 1/3] " Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-06-11 18:15 ` [PATCH v1 2/3] doc: pretty-options: remove documentation for deprecated options Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-06-11 18:15 ` [PATCH v1 3/3] revision: comment `--no-standard-notes` as deprecated Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-06-12 22:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-06-13 9:46 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-06-12 22:25 ` [PATCH v1 0/3] range-diff: treat notes like `log` Junio C Hamano
2023-06-13 5:43 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-09-01 16:18 ` [PATCH v2 " Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-09-01 16:19 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] " Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-09-03 12:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
2023-09-04 17:10 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-09-05 10:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2023-09-05 22:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-09-01 16:19 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] doc: pretty-options: remove documentation for deprecated options Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-09-01 16:19 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] revision: comment `--no-standard-notes` as deprecated Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-09-10 22:06 ` [PATCH v3 0/1] range-diff: treat notes like `log` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-09-10 22:06 ` [PATCH v3 1/1] " Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-09-11 19:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-09-14 8:29 ` Johannes Schindelin
2023-09-14 16:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-09-14 20:25 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-09-19 1:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-09-19 9:12 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-09-11 13:23 ` [PATCH v3 0/1] " Johannes Schindelin
2023-09-19 18:05 ` [PATCH v4 " Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-09-19 18:05 ` [PATCH v4 1/1] " Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-09-19 19:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-09-19 19:44 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-09-19 19:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-09-19 19:27 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-09-19 19:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-09-19 20:26 ` [PATCH v5 0/1] " Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-09-19 20:26 ` [PATCH v5 1/1] " Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-09-21 12:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
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