Fix --revision-range=SINGLE_COMMIT on git.

Review Request #3926 — Created March 2, 2013 and discarded

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nh2
RBTools
master

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Fix --revision-range=SINGLE_COMMIT on git.

Before this, we would generate a diff with

    git diff SINGLE_COMMIT..CURRENT_HEAD

but this is not what was intended and what we write in the docs.
Now, we use

    git show SINGLE_COMMIT

to really only generate the diff of the given commit.
Things like `rbtools/postreview.py -n --revision-range=master^` work as expected now.
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git show is very different from git diff, and will provide a different sort of patch to Review Board. We …

chipx86chipx86

Using show breaks something with our parent diffs.

SM smacleod
reviewbot
  1. This is a review from Review Bot.
      Tool: PEP8 Style Checker
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        rbtools/clients/git.py
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mike_conley
  1. This looks OK, but someone more familiar with RBTools and our SCM clients should probably give it a ship-it too.
    1. Also, great work, and thanks for the patch. :)
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chipx86
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  2. rbtools/clients/git.py (Diff revision 1)
     
     
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    git show is very different from git diff, and will provide a different sort of patch to Review Board.
    
    We should be using git diff only, with the appropriate arguments for diffing just the revision we want.
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chipx86
  1. Ship It!
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NH
NH
SM
  1. This change breaks diff generation when using --parent. I've reverted the change in master (9cd8d411e0b754e1653de765659573417d21880d)
  2. rbtools/clients/git.py (Diff revision 1)
     
     
    Show all issues
    Using show breaks something with our parent diffs.
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NH
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