Merge branch 'jt/format-patch-from-config'

"git format-patch" learned format.from configuration variable to
specify the default settings for its "--from" option.

* jt/format-patch-from-config:
  format-patch: format.from gives the default for --from

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/log.c b/builtin/log.c
index fd1652f52b..1f116bea8c 100644
--- a/builtin/log.c
+++ b/builtin/log.c
@@ -719,6 +719,7 @@ static void add_header(const char *value)
 static int thread;
 static int do_signoff;
 static int base_auto;
+static char *from;
 static const char *signature = git_version_string;
 static const char *signature_file;
 static int config_cover_letter;
@@ -807,6 +808,17 @@ static int git_format_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
 		base_auto = git_config_bool(var, value);
 		return 0;
 	}
+	if (!strcmp(var, "format.from")) {
+		int b = git_config_maybe_bool(var, value);
+		free(from);
+		if (b < 0)
+			from = xstrdup(value);
+		else if (b)
+			from = xstrdup(git_committer_info(IDENT_NO_DATE));
+		else
+			from = NULL;
+		return 0;
+	}
 
 	return git_log_config(var, value, cb);
 }
@@ -1384,7 +1396,6 @@ int cmd_format_patch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	int quiet = 0;
 	int reroll_count = -1;
 	char *branch_name = NULL;
-	char *from = NULL;
 	char *base_commit = NULL;
 	struct base_tree_info bases;