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.
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 only conditionally passing in `--notes` to `range-diff`.
§ Root cause
8cf51561d1e (range-diff: fix a crash in parsing git-log output,
2020-04-15) added `--notes` in order to deal with a side-effect of
`--pretty=medium`:
> To fix this explicitly set the output format of the internally executed
> `git log` with `--pretty=medium`. Because that cancels `--notes`, add
> explicitly `--notes` at the end.
§ Authors
• Fix by Johannes
• Tests by Kristoffer
† 1: See e.g. 66b2ed09c2 (Fix "log" family not to be too agressive about
showing notes, 2010-01-20).
Co-authored-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
range-diff.c | 13 +++++++++++--
t/t3206-range-diff.sh | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/range-diff.c b/range-diff.c
index 2e86063491..fbb81a92cc 100644
--- a/range-diff.c
+++ b/range-diff.c
@@ -41,12 +41,20 @@ static int read_patches(const char *range, struct string_list *list,
struct child_process cp = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT, contents = STRBUF_INIT;
struct patch_util *util = NULL;
- int in_header = 1;
+ int i, implicit_notes_arg = 1, in_header = 1;
char *line, *current_filename = NULL;
ssize_t len;
size_t size;
int ret = -1;
+ for (i = 0; other_arg && i < other_arg->nr; i++)
+ if (!strcmp(other_arg->v[i], "--notes") ||
+ starts_with(other_arg->v[i], "--notes=") ||
+ !strcmp(other_arg->v[i], "--no-notes")) {
+ implicit_notes_arg = 0;
+ break;
+ }
+
strvec_pushl(&cp.args, "log", "--no-color", "-p", "--no-merges",
"--reverse", "--date-order", "--decorate=no",
"--no-prefix", "--submodule=short",
@@ -60,8 +68,9 @@ static int read_patches(const char *range, struct string_list *list,
"--output-indicator-context=#",
"--no-abbrev-commit",
"--pretty=medium",
- "--notes",
NULL);
+ if (implicit_notes_arg)
+ strvec_push(&cp.args, "--notes");
strvec_push(&cp.args, range);
if (other_arg)
strvec_pushv(&cp.args, other_arg->v);
diff --git a/t/t3206-range-diff.sh b/t/t3206-range-diff.sh
index b5f4d6a653..b33afa1c6a 100755
--- a/t/t3206-range-diff.sh
+++ b/t/t3206-range-diff.sh
@@ -662,6 +662,20 @@ test_expect_success 'range-diff with multiple --notes' '
test_cmp expect actual
'
+# `range-diff` should act like `log` with regards to notes
+test_expect_success 'range-diff with --notes=custom does not show default notes' '
+ git notes add -m "topic note" topic &&
+ git notes add -m "unmodified note" unmodified &&
+ git notes --ref=custom add -m "topic note" topic &&
+ git notes --ref=custom add -m "unmodified note" unmodified &&
+ test_when_finished git notes remove topic unmodified &&
+ test_when_finished git notes --ref=custom remove topic unmodified &&
+ git range-diff --notes=custom main..topic main..unmodified \
+ >actual &&
+ ! grep "## Notes ##" actual &&
+ grep "## Notes (custom) ##" actual
+'
+
test_expect_success 'format-patch --range-diff does not compare notes by default' '
git notes add -m "topic note" topic &&
git notes add -m "unmodified note" unmodified &&
@@ -679,6 +693,20 @@ test_expect_success 'format-patch --range-diff does not compare notes by default
! grep "note" 0000-*
'
+test_expect_success 'format-patch --notes=custom --range-diff only compares custom notes' '
+ git notes add -m "topic note" topic &&
+ git notes --ref=custom add -m "topic note (custom)" topic &&
+ git notes add -m "unmodified note" unmodified &&
+ git notes --ref=custom add -m "unmodified note (custom)" unmodified &&
+ test_when_finished git notes remove topic unmodified &&
+ test_when_finished git notes --ref=custom remove topic unmodified &&
+ git format-patch --notes=custom --cover-letter --range-diff=$prev \
+ main..unmodified >actual &&
+ test_when_finished "rm 000?-*" &&
+ grep "## Notes (custom) ##" 0000-* &&
+ ! grep "## Notes ##" 0000-*
+'
+
test_expect_success 'format-patch --range-diff with --no-notes' '
git notes add -m "topic note" topic &&
git notes add -m "unmodified note" unmodified &&
--
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