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Bug 354800

Summary:

Egit should support creating a patch against an arbitrary commit

Product:

[Technology] EGit

Reporter:

James Blackburn <jamesblackburn+eclipse>

Component:

Assignee:

Project Inbox <egit.ui-inbox>

Status:

NEW ---

QA Contact:

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

CC:

angvoz.dev, carolynmacleod4, markus.kell.r, matthias.sohn, remy.suen, tomasz.zarna

Version:

1.1

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

All

OS:

All

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

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Description James Blackburn

2011-08-16 04:50:28 EDT

The egit patch wizard creates patches against the commit's parent.  This causes problems* for developers submitting patches to bugzilla as often the parent commit isn't part of the upstream repository.

The user is generally trying to do one of two things:

1) Produce a patch which corresponds to the changes against the remote's master as in:
git diff origin/master..master > patch

2) Produce a patch which corresponds to just the changes in the commit, but rebased onto origin/master:
git checkout -b patch_for_upstream origin/master
git cherry-pick <commit>
git diff HEAD^ > patch

Currently it's hard for users to create patches against the central repo's master without dropping to the command line.

*http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/cdt-dev/msg22741.html

Comment 1 Dorin Ciuca

2011-10-06 10:39:34 EDT

Created attachment 204673 [details]
screenshot

I found a workaround that it seems to work to get the patch diff only for your previous local commit.
- open history view, select your commit and choose “Open in Commit Viewer” from contextual menu
- select “diff” tab and there you have the diff (see attached)
- you can copy/paste the diff into a text file