Description Caspar D. 2011-11-08 03:18:35 EST

With Git it's trivially easy to create diffs covering the differences
between 2 arbitrary commits:

# git diff <commit1> <commit2> > mypatch.txt

The resulting mypatch.txt is of course perfectly usable by GNU patch
or any patch tool capable of interpreting a standard unified diff. But
Eclipse wants a diff in the 'Eclipse patch format', and for that I need
EGit.

However, from the EGit user guide it seems that a patch can only be created
to cover a single commit. This is of little practical value, IMO, because
it's likely that someone working with a DVCS will make many small commits
on a dev branch before he's ready to send a patch to someone else.

I'm therefore requesting additional functionality that will generate
an Eclipse WS patch covering the differences between 2 arbitrary Git
commits.