From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 19:54:04 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: commit-tree: teach -m/-F options to read logs from elsewhere
X-Git-Tag: v1.7.9-rc0~1^2~7
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=96b8d93a539f3a9f43f0fc38214db8753cac3c2e;p=git.git

commit-tree: teach -m/-F options to read logs from elsewhere

Just like "git commit" does.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---

diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
index 02133d5fc..cfb9906bb 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ git-commit-tree - Create a new commit object
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git commit-tree' <tree> [(-p <parent commit>)...] < changelog
+'git commit-tree' <tree> [(-p <parent>)...] < changelog
+'git commit-tree' [(-p <parent>)...] [(-m <message>)...] [(-F <file>)...] <tree>
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -17,7 +18,8 @@ This is usually not what an end user wants to run directly.  See
 linkgit:git-commit[1] instead.
 
 Creates a new commit object based on the provided tree object and
-emits the new commit object id on stdout.
+emits the new commit object id on stdout. The log message is read
+from the standard input, unless `-m` or `-F` options are given.
 
 A commit object may have any number of parents. With exactly one
 parent, it is an ordinary commit. Having more than one parent makes
@@ -39,9 +41,17 @@ OPTIONS
 <tree>::
 	An existing tree object
 
--p <parent commit>::
+-p <parent>::
 	Each '-p' indicates the id of a parent commit object.
 
+-m <message>::
+	A paragraph in the commig log message. This can be given more than
+	once and each <message> becomes its own paragraph.
+
+-F <file>::
+	Read the commit log message from the given file. Use `-` to read
+	from the standard input.
+
 
 Commit Information
 ------------------
diff --git a/builtin/commit-tree.c b/builtin/commit-tree.c
index 92cfbafe3..b9c331225 100644
--- a/builtin/commit-tree.c
+++ b/builtin/commit-tree.c
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 #include "builtin.h"
 #include "utf8.h"
 
-static const char commit_tree_usage[] = "git commit-tree <sha1> [(-p <sha1>)...] < changelog";
+static const char commit_tree_usage[] = "git commit-tree [(-p <sha1>)...] [-m <message>] [-F <file>] <sha1> <changelog";
 
 static void new_parent(struct commit *parent, struct commit_list **parents_p)
 {
@@ -51,6 +51,41 @@ int cmd_commit_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			continue;
 		}
 
+		if (!strcmp(arg, "-m")) {
+			if (argc <= ++i)
+				usage(commit_tree_usage);
+			if (buffer.len)
+				strbuf_addch(&buffer, '\n');
+			strbuf_addstr(&buffer, argv[i]);
+			strbuf_complete_line(&buffer);
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		if (!strcmp(arg, "-F")) {
+			int fd;
+
+			if (argc <= ++i)
+				usage(commit_tree_usage);
+			if (buffer.len)
+				strbuf_addch(&buffer, '\n');
+			if (!strcmp(argv[i], "-"))
+				fd = 0;
+			else {
+				fd = open(argv[i], O_RDONLY);
+				if (fd < 0)
+					die_errno("git commit-tree: failed to open '%s'",
+						  argv[i]);
+			}
+			if (strbuf_read(&buffer, fd, 0) < 0)
+				die_errno("git commit-tree: failed to read '%s'",
+					  argv[i]);
+			if (fd && close(fd))
+				die_errno("git commit-tree: failed to close '%s'",
+					  argv[i]);
+			strbuf_complete_line(&buffer);
+			continue;
+		}
+
 		if (get_sha1(arg, tree_sha1))
 			die("Not a valid object name %s", arg);
 		if (got_tree)
@@ -58,8 +93,10 @@ int cmd_commit_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		got_tree = 1;
 	}
 
-	if (strbuf_read(&buffer, 0, 0) < 0)
-		die_errno("git commit-tree: failed to read");
+	if (!buffer.len) {
+		if (strbuf_read(&buffer, 0, 0) < 0)
+			die_errno("git commit-tree: failed to read");
+	}
 
 	if (commit_tree(buffer.buf, tree_sha1, parents, commit_sha1, NULL)) {
 		strbuf_release(&buffer);