Format-patch generates emails with the "From" address set to the
author of each patch. If you are going to send the emails, however,
you would want to replace the author identity with yours (if they
are not the same), and bump the author identity to an in-body
header.
Normally this is handled by git-send-email, which does the
transformation before sending out the emails. However, some
workflows may not use send-email (e.g., imap-send, or a custom
script which feeds the mbox to a non-git MUA). They could each
implement this feature themselves, but getting it right is
non-trivial (one must canonicalize the identities by reversing any
RFC2047 encoding or RFC822 quoting of the headers, which has caused
many bugs in send-email over the years).
This patch takes a different approach: it teaches format-patch a
"--from" option which handles the ident check and in-body header
while it is writing out the email. It's much simpler to do at this
level (because we haven't done any quoting yet), and any workflow
based on format-patch can easily turn it on.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allows format-patch --cover-letter to be configurable; the most
notable is the "auto" mode to create cover-letter only for multi
patch series.
* fc/send-email-annotate:
rebase-am: explicitly disable cover-letter
format-patch: trivial cleanups
format-patch: add format.coverLetter configuration variable
log: update to OPT_BOOL
format-patch: refactor branch name calculation
format-patch: improve head calculation for cover-letter
send-email: make annotate configurable
* maint:
Correct common spelling mistakes in comments and tests
kwset: fix spelling in comments
precompose-utf8: fix spelling of "want" in error message
compat/nedmalloc: fix spelling in comments
compat/regex: fix spelling and grammar in comments
obstack: fix spelling of similar
contrib/subtree: fix spelling of accidentally
git-remote-mediawiki: spelling fixes
doc: various spelling fixes
fast-export: fix argument name in error messages
Documentation: distinguish between ref and offset deltas in pack-format
i18n: make the translation of -u advice in one go
Most of these were found using Lucas De Marchi's codespell tool.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Also, add a new option: 'auto', so if there's more than one patch, the
cover letter is generated, otherwise it's not.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we do it after the revision traversal we can be sure that this is
indeed a commit that will be processed (i.e. not a merge) and it's the
top most one (thus removing the NEEDSWORK comment, at least we show the
same as 'git diff --stat' output that appears in the cover-letter).
While we are at it, since we know there's nothing to generate, exit
sooner in all cases, like --cover-letter currently does.
Also, if there's nothing to generate and cover-letter is specified, a
different code-path might be triggered that is not currently covered in
the test-case, so add a test for it.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "format-patch" quoted a non-ascii strings on the header files,
it incorrectly applied rfc2047 and chopped a single character in the
middle of it.
* ks/rfc2047-one-char-at-a-time:
format-patch: RFC 2047 says multi-octet character may not be split
Consolidate codepaths that inspect log-message-to-be and decide to
add a new Signed-off-by line in various commands.
* bc/append-signed-off-by:
git-commit: populate the edit buffer with 2 blank lines before s-o-b
Unify appending signoff in format-patch, commit and sequencer
format-patch: update append_signoff prototype
t4014: more tests about appending s-o-b lines
sequencer.c: teach append_signoff to avoid adding a duplicate newline
sequencer.c: teach append_signoff how to detect duplicate s-o-b
sequencer.c: always separate "(cherry picked from" from commit body
sequencer.c: require a conforming footer to be preceded by a blank line
sequencer.c: recognize "(cherry picked from ..." as part of s-o-b footer
t/t3511: add some tests of 'cherry-pick -s' functionality
t/test-lib-functions.sh: allow to specify the tag name to test_commit
commit, cherry-pick -s: remove broken support for multiline rfc2822 fields
sequencer.c: rework search for start of footer to improve clarity
When "format-patch" quoted a non-ascii strings on the header files,
it incorrectly applied rfc2047 and chopped a single character in
the middle of it.
* ks/rfc2047-one-char-at-a-time:
format-patch: RFC 2047 says multi-octet character may not be split
Even though an earlier attempt (bafc478..41dd00bad) cleaned
up RFC 2047 encoding, pretty.c::add_rfc2047() still decides
where to split the output line by going through the input
one byte at a time, and potentially splits a character in
the middle. A subject line may end up showing like this:
".... fö?? bar". (instead of ".... föö bar".)
if split incorrectly.
RFC 2047, section 5 (3) explicitly forbids such beaviour
Each 'encoded-word' MUST represent an integral number of
characters. A multi-octet character may not be split across
adjacent 'encoded- word's.
that means that e.g. for
Subject: .... föö bar
encoding
Subject: =?UTF-8?q?....=20f=C3=B6=C3=B6?=
=?UTF-8?q?=20bar?=
is correct, and
Subject: =?UTF-8?q?....=20f=C3=B6=C3?= <-- NOTE ö is broken here
=?UTF-8?q?=B6=20bar?=
is not, because "ö" character UTF-8 encoding C3 B6 is split here across
adjacent encoded words.
To fix the problem, make the loop grab one _character_ at a time and
determine its output length to see where to break the output line. Note
that this version only knows about UTF-8, but the logic to grab one
character is abstracted out in mbs_chrlen() function to make it possible
to extend it to other encodings with the help of iconv in the future.
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are two implementations of append_signoff in log-tree.c and
sequencer.c, which do more or less the same thing. Unify on top of the
sequencer.c implementation.
Add a test in t4014 to demonstrate support for non-s-o-b elements in the
commit footer provided by sequence.c:append_sob. Mark tests fixed as
appropriate.
[Commit message mostly stolen from Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy's original
unification patch]
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <bcasey@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
[bc: Squash the tests from Duy's original unify-appending-sob series.
Fix test 90 "signoff: some random signoff-alike" and mark as failing.
Correct behavior should insert a blank line after message body and
signed-off-by.
Add two additional tests:
1. failure to detect non-conforming elements in the footer when last
line matches committer's s-o-b.
2. ensure various s-o-b -like elements in the footer are handled as
conforming. e.g. "Change-id: IXXXX or Bug: 1234"
]
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <bcasey@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach "format-patch" to prefix v4- to its output files for the
fourth iteration of a patch series, to make it easier for the
submitter to keep separate copies for iterations.
* jc/format-patch-reroll:
format-patch: give --reroll-count a short synonym -v
format-patch: document and test --reroll-count
format-patch: add --reroll-count=$N option
get_patch_filename(): split into two functions
get_patch_filename(): drop "just-numbers" hack
get_patch_filename(): simplify function signature
builtin/log.c: stop using global patch_suffix
builtin/log.c: drop redundant "numbered_files" parameter from make_cover_letter()
builtin/log.c: drop unused "numbered" parameter from make_cover_letter()
Teach various forms of "format-patch" command line to identify what
branch the patches are taken from, so that the branch description
is picked up in more cases.
* nd/maint-branch-desc-doc:
format-patch: pick up branch description when no ref is specified
format-patch: pick up correct branch name from symbolic ref
t4014: a few more tests on cover letter using branch description
branch: delete branch description if it's empty
config.txt: a few lines about branch.<name>.description
Accept "-v" as a synonym to "--reroll-count", so that users can say
"git format-patch -v4 master", instead of having to fully spell it
out as "git format-patch --reroll-count=4 master".
As I do not think of a reason why users would want to tell the
command to be "verbose", I think this should be OK.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We only try to get branch name in "format-patch origin" case or
similar and not "format-patch -22" where HEAD is automatically
added. Without correct branch name, branch description cannot be
added. Make sure we always get branch name.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
find_branch_name() assumes to take refs/heads/<branch>. But we also
have symbolic refs, such as HEAD, that can point to a valid branch in
refs/heads and do not follow refs/heads/<branch> syntax. Remove the
assumption and apply normal ref resolution. After all it would be
confusing if rev machinery resolves a ref in one way and
find_branch_name() another.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
t4014, t9502 and t0200 tests had various portability issues that
broke on OpenBSD.
* jc/maint-test-portability:
t4014: fix arguments to grep
t9502: do not assume GNU tar
t0200: "locale" may not exist
These "expect-failure" tests were not looking for the right string
in the patch file. For example:
grep "^ *"S. E. Cipient" <scipient@example.com>\$" patch5
was looking for "^ *S." in these three files:
"E."
"Cipient <scipient@example.com>$"
"patch5"
With some implementations of grep, the lack of file "E." was
reported as an error, leading to the failure of the test.
With other implementations of grep, the pattern "^ *S." matched what
was in patch5, without diagnosing the missing files as an error, and
made these tests unexpectedly pass.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Emit the notes attached to the commit in "format-patch --notes"
output after three-dashes.
* jc/prettier-pretty-note:
format-patch: add a blank line between notes and diffstat
Doc User-Manual: Patch cover letter, three dashes, and --notes
Doc format-patch: clarify --notes use case
Doc notes: Include the format-patch --notes option
Doc SubmittingPatches: Mention --notes option after "cover letter"
Documentation: decribe format-patch --notes
format-patch --notes: show notes after three-dashes
format-patch: append --signature after notes
pretty_print_commit(): do not append notes message
pretty: prepare notes message at a centralized place
format_note(): simplify API
pretty: remove reencode_commit_message()
git-format-patch does currently not parse user supplied extra header
values (e. g., --cc, --add-header) and just replays them. That forces
users to add them RFC 2822/2047 conform in encoded form, e.g.
--cc '=?UTF-8?q?Jan=20H=2E=20Sch=C3=B6nherr?= <...>'
which is inconvenient. We would want to update git-format-patch to
accept human-readable input
--cc 'Jan H. Schönherr <...>'
and handle the encoding, wrapping and quoting internally in the future,
similar to what is already done in git-send-email. The necessary code
should mostly exist in the code paths that handle the From: and Subject:
headers.
Whether we want to do this only for the git-format-patch options
--to and --cc (and the corresponding config options) or also for
user supplied headers via --add-header, is open for discussion.
For now, add test_expect_failure tests for To: and Cc: headers as a
reminder and fix tests that would otherwise fail should this get
implemented.
Signed-off-by: Jan H. Schönherr <schnhrr@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
According to RFC 2047 and RFC 822, rfc2047 encoded words and and rfc822
quoted strings do not mix. Since add_rfc2047() no longer leaves RFC 822
specials behind, the quoting is also no longer necessary to create a
standard-conforming mail.
Remove the quoting, when RFC 2047 encoding takes place. This actually
requires to refactor add_rfc2047() a bit, so that the different cases
can be distinguished.
With this patch, my own name gets correctly decoded as Jan H. Schönherr
(without quotes) and not as "Jan H. Schönherr" (with quotes).
Signed-off-by: Jan H. Schönherr <schnhrr@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
RFC 2047 requires more characters to be encoded than it is currently done.
Especially, RFC 2047 distinguishes between allowed remaining characters
in encoded words in addresses (From, To, etc.) and other headers, such
as Subject.
Make add_rfc2047() and is_rfc2047_special() location dependent and include
all non-allowed characters to hopefully be RFC 2047 conformant.
This especially fixes a problem, where RFC 822 specials (e. g. ".") were
left unencoded in addresses, which was solved with a non-standard-conforming
workaround in the past (which is going to be removed in a follow-up patch).
Signed-off-by: Jan H. Schönherr <schnhrr@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Encoded characters add more than one character at once to an encoded
header. Include all characters that are about to be added in the length
calculation for wrapping.
Additionally, RFC 2047 imposes a maximum line length of 76 characters
if that line contains an rfc2047 encoded word.
Signed-off-by: Jan H. Schönherr <schnhrr@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Do not wrap the second and later lines of non-rfc2047-encoded headers
substantially before the 78 character limit.
Instead of passing the remaining length of the first line as wrapping
width, use the correct maximum length and tell strbuf_add_wrapped_bytes()
how many characters of the first line are already used.
Signed-off-by: Jan H. Schönherr <schnhrr@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When inserting the note after the commit log message to format-patch
output, add three dashes before the note. Record the fact that we
did so in the rev_info and omit showing duplicated three dashes in
the usual codepath that is used when notes are not being shown.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When appending a new signature with "format-patch --signature", if
the "--notes" option is also in effect, the location of the new
signature (and if the signature should be added in the first place)
should be decided using the contents of the original commit log
message, before the message from the notes is added.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Otherwise it will be split at a space after "Program" when it is set
to "\\Program Files\perl" or something silly like that.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS defines PERL_PATH to be used in the test suite. Only a
few tests already actually use this variable when perl is needed. The
other test just call 'perl' and it might happen that the wrong perl
interpreter is used.
This becomes problematic on Windows, when the perl interpreter that is
compiled and installed on the Windows system is used, because this perl
interpreter might introduce some unexpected LF->CRLF conversions.
This patch makes sure that $PERL_PATH is used everywhere in the test suite
and that the correct perl interpreter is used.
Signed-off-by: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These changes are in the same spirit as the six patches that
precede them, but they haven't been split into individually
justifiable patches yet.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git diff --stat" and "git apply --stat" now learn to print the line
"%d files changed, %d insertions(+), %d deletions(-)" in singular form
whenever applicable. "0 insertions" and "0 deletions" are also omitted
unless they are both zero.
This matches how versions of "diffstat" that are not prehistoric produced
their output, and also makes this line translatable.
[jc: with help from Thomas Dickey in archaeology of "diffstat"]
[jc: squashed Jonathan's updates to illustrations in tutorials and a test]
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The threading tests turn on format.thread, but never clean
up after themselves, meaning that later tests will also have
format.thread set.
This is more annoying than most leftover config, too,
because not only does it impact the results of other tests,
but it does so non-deterministically. Threading requires the
generation of message-ids, which incorporate the current
time, meaning a slow-running test script may generate
different results from run to run.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
commit c9bfb953 (want_color: automatically fallback to color.ui,
2011-08-17) introduced a regression where format-patch produces colorized
patches when color.ui is set to "always".
In f3aafa4 (Disable color detection during format-patch, 2006-07-09),
git_format_config was taught to intercept diff.color to avoid passing it
down to git_log_config and later, git_diff_ui_config.
Teach git_format_config to intercept color.ui in the same way.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Pang Yan Han <pangyanhan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since c426003 (format-patch: add --no-cc, --no-to, and
--no-add-headers, 2010-03-07) the tests have checked for an option
called --no-add-headers introduced by letting the user negate
--add-header.
However, the parseopt machinery does not automatically pluralize
anything, so it is in fact called --no-add-header.
Since the option never worked, is not documented anywhere, and
implementing an actual --no-add-headers would lead to silly code
complications, we just adapt the test to the code.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The test wrote something along the lines of 0001-foo.patch to output,
which of course never contained a signature. Luckily the tested
behaviour is actually present.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Most kinds of failure in 'git format-patch --stdout >output' will
result in an empty 'output'. This slips past checks that only verify
absence of output, such as the '! grep ...' that are quite prevalent
in t4014.
Introduce a helper check_patch() that checks that at least From, Date
and Subject are present, thus making sure it looks vaguely like a
patch (or cover letter) email. Then insert calls to it in all tests
that do have positive checks for content.
This makes two of the tests fail. Mark them as such; they'll be
fixed in a moment.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If you give a zero-length subject prefix to format-patch
(e.g., "format-patch --subject-prefix="), we will print the
ugly:
Subject: [ 1/2] your subject here
because we always insert a space between the prefix and
numbering. Requiring the user to provide the space in their
prefix would be more flexible, but would break existing
usage. This patch provides a DWIM and suppresses the space
for zero-length prefixes, under the assumption that nobody
actually wants "[ 1/2]".
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If somebody has a name that includes an rfc822 special, we
will output it literally in the "From:" header. This is
usually OK, but certain characters (like ".") are supposed
to be enclosed in double-quotes in a mail header.
In practice, whether this matters may depend on your MUA.
Some MUAs will happily take in:
From: Foo B. Bar <author@example.com>
without quotes, and properly quote the "." when they send
the actual mail. Others may not, or may screw up harder
things like:
From: Foo "The Baz" Bar <author@example.com>
For example, mutt will strip the quotes, thinking they are
actual syntactic rfc822 quotes.
So let's quote properly, and then (if necessary) we still
apply rfc2047 encoding on top of that, which should make all
MUAs happy.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We already wrap names in "from" headers, which tend to be
the long part of an address. But it's also possible for a
long name to not be wrapped, but to make us want to wrap the
email address. For example (imagine for the sake of
readability we want to wrap at 50 characters instead of 78):
From: this is my really long git name <foo@example.com>
The name does not overflow the line, but the name and email
together do. So we would rather see:
From: this is my really long git name
<git@example.com>
Because we wrap the name separately during add_rfc2047, we
neglected this case. Instead, we should see how long the
final line of the wrapped name ended up, and decide whether
or not to wrap based on that. We can't break the address
into multiple parts, so we either leave it with the name, or
put it by itself on a line.
Test by Erik Faye-Lund.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Gettextize the "--name-only/--name-status/--check does not make sense"
messages. A test in t4014-format-patch.sh explicitly checked for these
messages. Change them to skip under GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject and identity headers may be arbitrarily long. In the
past, we just assumed that single-line headers would be
reasonably short. For multi-line subjects that we squish
into a single line, we just "pre-folded" the data in
pp_title_line by adding a newline and indentation.
There were two problems. One is that, although rare,
single-line messages can actually be longer than the
recommended line-length limits. The second is that the
pre-folding interacted badly with rfc2047 encoding, leading
to malformed headers.
Instead, let's stop pre-folding the subject lines, and just
fold everything based on length in add_rfc2047, whether
it is encoded or not.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Pass output through the pager if format-patch is run with --stdout. This
saves the user the trouble of running git with '-p' or piping through a
pager.
setup_pager() already checks if stdout is a tty, so we don't have to
worry about behaviour if the user redirects/pipes stdout. Paging can
also be disabled with the config
[pager]
format-patch = false
Add tests to check for these behaviour.
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
