From 15d1b8a72305e63e14a8c29c5d830f6033494ab6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 09:47:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] WIP

Need to add a test for a bare diff (i.e. without commit message), to
allow things like:

	git range-diff $COMMIT^! mbox:<(git diff HEAD)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
 range-diff.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/range-diff.c b/range-diff.c
index 7c0eb8e2145961..acb56ccbf76149 100644
--- a/range-diff.c
+++ b/range-diff.c
@@ -233,6 +233,15 @@ static int read_mbox(const char *path, struct string_list *list)
 
 	while (next_line(&s)) {
 		if (s.state == MBOX_BEFORE_HEADER) {
+			if (starts_with(s.line, "diff --git ")) {
+				/* This is a patch without commit message */
+				util = xcalloc(1, sizeof(*util));
+				oidcpy(&util->oid, null_oid());
+				util->matching = -1;
+				author = subject = "(none)";
+				goto process_diff;
+			}
+
 parse_from_delimiter:
 			if (!skip_prefix(s.line, "From ", &p))
 				continue;
@@ -249,6 +258,7 @@ static int read_mbox(const char *path, struct string_list *list)
 			continue;
 		}
 
+process_diff:
 		if (starts_with(s.line, "diff --git ")) {
 			struct patch patch = { 0 };
 			struct strbuf root = STRBUF_INIT;