[U-Boot] [PATCH] Revert "patman: use -D option for git format-patch"

[Simon Glass]

Hi Masahiro,

On 30 August 2015 at 10:23, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro at socionext.com> wrote:
> This reverts commit 19b4a3369876f9215e2b861f211e8df1a75e26ca.
>
> Since that commit, patman generates useless patches for file removal;
> "git format -D" prints only the header but not the diff when deleting
> files, and "git am" always refuses such patches.
>
> The following is the quotation from "man git-format-patch":
>
>   -D, --irreversible-delete
>     Omit the preimage for deletes, i.e. print only the header but
>     not the diff between the preimage and /dev/null. The resulting
>     patch is not meant to be applied with patch nor git apply; this
>     is solely for people who want to just concentrate on reviewing
>     the text after the change. In addition, the output obviously
>     lack enough information to apply such a patch in reverse, even
>     manually, hence the name of the option.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
> ---
>
>  tools/patman/gitutil.py | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Oh dear. That explains the errors patman has been giving me lately.

Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

Regards,
Simon