[PATCH] patchbomb: make --git imply --plain

[Augie Fackler]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Sean Farley <sean at farley.io> wrote:
> Henning Schild <henning at hennsch.de> writes:
>
>> Am Wed, 16 Nov 2016 17:41:03 -0500
>> schrieb Augie Fackler <raf at durin42.com>:
>>
>>> > On Nov 16, 2016, at 15:41, Henning Schild <henning at hennsch.de>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >
>>> > # HG changeset patch
>>> > # User Henning Schild <henning at hennsch.de>
>>> > # Date 1479327376 -3600
>>> > #      Wed Nov 16 21:16:16 2016 +0100
>>> > # Node ID 181aaf02c1542387651e66c22063bb276271ced2
>>> > # Parent  db8637a8a7464aca668e5aaa2fb9610edaf6f286
>>> > patchbomb: make --git imply --plain
>>>
>>> No thanks. --git here is about using the git-diff format, which is
>>> still extremely valuable for hg users.
>>
>> Ok. I guess that consequently also means no to the diffstat patch (2 of
>> 2 out of this thread)?
>>
>> Let me see how to fit that change into hg-git. I did not have a look at
>> how that hooks into hg, but i can imagine a similar patch would be much
>> harder there - like parsing the mbox. I need that change working with
>> hg-git for contributing code back to upstream mailing lists.
>> I can imagine that similar patches would be required for the reverse
>> operation (hg mimport), but i did not try that way yet.
>
> Since a git mailing list would be only for git clients, it'd be ok to
> have both import / export in the git style for hg-git. Maybe others feel
> different than me, though.

It's probably Not Okay to have hg-git break hg email for users that
have hg-git turned on globally, rather than per-repo?

>
>> How about a new option --git-format that implies --git and --plain and
>> takes care of the diffstat?
>
> We usually shy away from new arguments and instead suggest the
> improvement of templates which could be used here (maybe they already
> can, I haven't checked).

I'm not sure that applies entirely to email tho - the email formats
aren't templated, though I suppose they could be...

Now you've got me thinking.