On Fri, Dec 07 2018, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > Hi, all: > > Every now and again I come across a patch sent to LKML without a leading > "diff a/foo b/foo" -- usually produced by quilt. E.g.: > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181125185004.151077005@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > I am guessing quilt does not bother including the leading "diff a/foo > b/foo" because it's redundant with the next two lines, however this > remains a valid patch recognized by git-am. > > If you pipe that patch via git-patch-id, it produces nothing, but if I > put in the leading "diff", like so: > > diff a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c > > then it properly returns "fb3ae17451bc619e3d7f0dd647dfba2b9ce8992e". > > Can we please teach git-patch-id to work without the leading diff a/foo > b/foo, same as git-am? > > Best, > -K The state machine is sensitive there being a "diff" line, then "index" etc. diff --git a/builtin/patch-id.c b/builtin/patch-id.c index 970d0d30b4..b99e4455fd 100644 --- a/builtin/patch-id.c +++ b/builtin/patch-id.c @@ -97,7 +97,9 @@ static int get_one_patchid(struct object_id *next_oid, struct object_id *result, } /* Ignore commit comments */ - if (!patchlen && !starts_with(line, "diff ")) + if (!patchlen && starts_with(line, "--- a/")) + ; + else if (!patchlen && !starts_with(line, "diff ")) continue; /* Parsing diff header? */ This would make it produce a patch-id for that input, however note that I've done "--- a/" there, with just "--- " (which is legit) we'd get confused and start earlier before the diffstat. So if you're interested in having this I leave it to you to run with this & write tests for it, but more convincingly run it on the git & LKML archives and see that the output is the same (or just extra in case where we now find patches) with --stable etc.
