Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I had to delay -rc2 to see these last minute tweaks come to some >> reasonable place to stop at, and I do not think we want to delay the >> final any longer or destablizing it further by piling last minute >> undercooked changes on top. > > So how about doing this on top of 'master' instead? As this leaks > *no* information wrt how range-diff machinery should behave from the > format-patch side by not passing any diffopt, as long as the new > code I added to show_range_diff() comes up with a reasonable default > diffopts (for which I really would appreciate extra sets of eyes to > make sure), this change by definition cannot be wrong (famous last > words). As listed in today's "What's cooking" report, I've merged this to 'next' in today's pushout and planning to have it in the -rc2. I am not married to this exact implementation, and I'd welcome to have an even simpler and less disruptive solution if exists, but I am hoping that this is a good-enough interim measure for the upcoming release, until we decide what to do with the customizability of range-diff driven by format-patch. In addition to this, I am planning the "rebase --stat" and "reflog that does not say 'rebase -i' but 'rebase'" fixes merged to 'master' before cutting -rc2.
