[edk2-devel] RFC: Adding an alias to format patches with --stat= and --stat-graph-width=

[Rebecca Cran]

I've noticed several patches recently which has ellipses at the start of 
the diffstat filenames.

When I started contributing to edk2 I remember being asked to always use 
--stat=1000 --stat-graph-width=20 to avoid that problem: it's mentioned 
in 
https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Laszlo%27s-unkempt-git-guide-for-edk2-contributors-and-maintainers.

I was wondering if we might want to introduce an alias via SetupGit.py 
to add those parameters automatically?

For example:

diff --git a/BaseTools/Scripts/SetupGit.py b/BaseTools/Scripts/SetupGit.py
index 91814199bf..901d2025ab 100644
--- a/BaseTools/Scripts/SetupGit.py
+++ b/BaseTools/Scripts/SetupGit.py
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ OPTIONS = [
      {'section': 'sendemail',   'option': 'chainreplyto', 'value': False},
      {'section': 'sendemail',   'option': 'thread', 'value': True},
      {'section': 'sendemail',   'option': 'transferEncoding', 'value': 
'8bit'},
+    {'section': 'alias',       'option': 'fp', 'value': 'format-patch 
-M --stat=1000 --stat-graph-width=20'},^M
      ]


-- 
Rebecca Cran



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