Add option hooks.diffopts to customize change summary in post-receive-email

This makes it easy to customize the git diff-tree options, for example
to include -p to include inline diffs.

It defaults to the current options "--stat --summary --find-copies-harder"
and thus is backward-compatible.

Signed-off-by: Jon Jensen <jon@endpoint.com>
Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
index 21989fc6ab84c0503cdc9418673d9d0bf06f9d49..fa6d41a1ab8c5f3de777c1ba93d241eb5140a3c7 100755 (executable)
--- a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
+++ b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
@@ -60,6 +60,11 @@
 #   email body. If not specified, there is no limit.
 #   Lines beyond the limit are suppressed and counted, and a final
 #   line is added indicating the number of suppressed lines.
+# hooks.diffopts
+#   Alternate options for the git diff-tree invocation that shows changes.
+#   Default is "--stat --summary --find-copies-harder". Add -p to those
+#   options to include a unified diff of changes in addition to the usual
+#   summary output.
 #
 # Notes
 # -----
@@ -446,7 +451,7 @@ generate_update_branch_email()
        # non-fast-forward updates.
        echo ""
        echo "Summary of changes:"
-       git diff-tree --stat --summary --find-copies-harder $oldrev..$newrev
+       git diff-tree $diffopts $oldrev..$newrev
 }
 
 #
@@ -723,6 +728,8 @@ envelopesender=$(git config hooks.envelopesender)
 emailprefix=$(git config hooks.emailprefix || echo '[SCM] ')
 custom_showrev=$(git config hooks.showrev)
 maxlines=$(git config hooks.emailmaxlines)
+diffopts=$(git config hooks.diffopts)
+: ${diffopts:="--stat --summary --find-copies-harder"}
 
 # --- Main loop
 # Allow dual mode: run from the command line just like the update hook, or