Subject: Re: diffstat wierdness with 'git format-patch' output

From: Greg KH <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:52:24 -0800

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:42:56PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:34:20PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > I personally find it useful to see the trend of version of tools
> > > people use on the public mailing list, and that was the primary
> > > reason it is there.
> > 
> > Why not just add a "X-Git-Version: 1.2.0" flag to the message instead?
> 
> And here's a patch that does just that.
> 
> -----------------
> 
> Subject: change git-format-patch to put the git version in the mail header
> 
> This is more like other tools that create mail messages, and fixes an
> issue of the diffstat program thinking that an extra line was removed
> from the patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email-masked]>
> 
> diff --git a/git-format-patch.sh b/git-format-patch.sh
> index e54c9e4..5f6a921 100755
> --- a/git-format-patch.sh
> +++ b/git-format-patch.sh
> @@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ while (<FH>) {
>  
>  	    print "From: $author_ident\n";
>  	    print "Date: $author_date\n";
> +	    print "X-Git-Version: @@GIT_VERSION@@\n";

Hm, git-send-email doesn't see this, so it doesn't get sent out if you
use that tool.

I can fix that to just put the version number in the message too, like
it adds the "X-Mailer" field, if people think this is really worth it...

thanks,

greg k-h