add-patch: add NEEDSWORK about comparing commits
The two versions of add-patch has special-casing for the literal
revision "HEAD". However, we want to handle other ways of saying "HEAD"
in the same way.[0] Add a NEEDSWORK to the add-patch code that does this
so that it can be addressed later.
[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqsgat7ttf.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com/
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/add-patch.c b/add-patch.c
index f899389..64ab7fa 100644
--- a/add-patch.c
+++ b/add-patch.c
@@ -1646,6 +1646,14 @@
if (mode == ADD_P_STASH)
s.mode = &patch_mode_stash;
else if (mode == ADD_P_RESET) {
+ /*
+ * NEEDSWORK: Instead of comparing to the literal "HEAD",
+ * compare the commit objects instead so that other ways of
+ * saying the same thing (such as "@") are also handled
+ * appropriately.
+ *
+ * This applies to the cases below too.
+ */
if (!revision || !strcmp(revision, "HEAD"))
s.mode = &patch_mode_reset_head;
else
diff --git a/git-add--interactive.perl b/git-add--interactive.perl
index f36c007..d5ef7fc 100755
--- a/git-add--interactive.perl
+++ b/git-add--interactive.perl
@@ -1807,6 +1807,13 @@
$arg = shift @ARGV or die __("missing --");
if ($arg ne '--') {
$patch_mode_revision = $arg;
+
+ # NEEDSWORK: Instead of comparing to the literal "HEAD",
+ # compare the commit objects instead so that other ways of
+ # saying the same thing (such as "@") are also handled
+ # appropriately.
+ #
+ # This applies to the cases below too.
$patch_mode = ($arg eq 'HEAD' ?
'reset_head' : 'reset_nothead');
$arg = shift @ARGV or die __("missing --");
