Instead of skipping unkown files on the command line, pass them through
git format-patch into a safe temporary directory. This allow no
complicated rev-list option lists combining "--all" "--not" and so on, but
allow to use ranges which are quite enough for most of the use cases.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 2 +-
git-send-email.perl | 6 ++++--
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 82f5056..cafff1a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-send-email - Send a collection of patches as emails
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git send-email' [options] <file|directory> [... file|directory]
+'git send-email' [options] <file|directory|rev-list>...
DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index 94ca5c8..0d50ee2 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ use Term::ReadLine;
use Getopt::Long;
use Data::Dumper;
use Term::ANSIColor;
+use File::Temp qw/ tempdir /;
use Git;
package FakeTerm;
@@ -38,7 +39,7 @@ package main;
sub usage {
print <<EOT;
-git send-email [options] <file | directory>...
+git send-email [options] <file | directory | rev-list >
Composing:
--from <str> * Email From:
@@ -378,7 +379,8 @@ for my $f (@ARGV) {
} elsif (-f $f or -p $f) {
push @files, $f;
} else {
- print STDERR "Skipping $f - not found.\n";
+ my $tempdir = tempdir(CLEANUP => 1);
+ push @files, $repo->command('format-patch', '-o', $tempdir, $f);
}
}
--
1.6.0.3.759.g40a2.dirty
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