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diff-options: make --patch a synonym for -p
authorWill Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com>
Thu, 13 May 2010 08:59:00 +0000 (09:59 +0100)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Wed, 19 May 2010 04:50:03 +0000 (21:50 -0700)
Here we simply make --patch a synonym for -p, whose mnemonic was "patch"
all along.

Signed-off-by: Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/diff-options.txt
diff.c

index c9c6c2b1cb61caa6db5e029d6bce1c76a6c075a7..4a968591cb5cb5571f14733b7de1f15f3509f32c 100644 (file)
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
 ifndef::git-format-patch[]
 -p::
 -u::
+--patch::
        Generate patch (see section on generating patches).
        {git-diff? This is the default.}
 endif::git-format-patch[]
diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index e49f14a92442117a8e8424bd7a750dc4fda5cab2..43a313deba54ee6b943dd86c8db6675b145b092a 100644 (file)
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -2701,7 +2701,7 @@ int diff_opt_parse(struct diff_options *options, const char **av, int ac)
        const char *arg = av[0];
 
        /* Output format options */
-       if (!strcmp(arg, "-p") || !strcmp(arg, "-u"))
+       if (!strcmp(arg, "-p") || !strcmp(arg, "-u") || !strcmp(arg, "--patch"))
                options->output_format |= DIFF_FORMAT_PATCH;
        else if (opt_arg(arg, 'U', "unified", &options->context))
                options->output_format |= DIFF_FORMAT_PATCH;