On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 05:12:02PM +0100, Nikola Knežević wrote:
> git format-patch -o patches -n --relative=click click/master myclick
>
> This produced a bunch of files in patches directory, most of which are
> empty. When I tried this --stdout, I had something like this:
Hmm. It seems that there is no history pruning done with --relative, so
you will still end up with commits that make no changes. However, this
is intentional. See cd676a51:
diff --relative: output paths as relative to the current subdirectory
[...]
- This works not just with diff but also works with the log
family of commands, but the history pruning is not affected.
In other words, if you go to a subdirectory, you can say:
$ git log --relative -p
but it will show the log message even for commits that do not
touch the current directory. You can limit it by giving
pathspec yourself:
$ git log --relative -p .
This originally was not a conscious design choice, but we
have a way to affect diff pathspec and pruning pathspec
independently. IOW "git log --full-diff -p ." tells it to
prune history to commits that affect the current subdirectory
but show the changes with full context. I think it makes
more sense to leave pruning independent from --relative than
the obvious alternative of always pruning with the current
subdirectory, which would break the symmetry.
So I think what you really want is:
git format-patch --relative=click click/master myclick -- click
to limit the path pruning to the 'click' directory.
-Peff
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