Can Phabricator be made to understand git better?

[Simon Marlow]

You normally want to do "arc diff HEAD^" in my experience.  I believe 
you get to choose this to be the default when you initialize arc the 
first time, and I set it to HEAD^ for my arc.  I'm not sure if you can 
change the default later, but you can always say "arc diff HEAD^".

Cheers,
Simon

On 10/08/2014 12:17, Johan Tibell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have to fight Phab too much because it doesn't understand git or git
> working conventions very well. For example, the other day I uploaded
> https://phabricator.haskell.org/D128, built from a single git commit on
> a feature branch I made on a local feature branch (based on my local
> master).
>
> First, doing that was in itself a bit of a pain. 'arc diff' didn't do
> the right thing and included some random commit(s) instead of my single
> commit in my feature branch. Perhaps it tried to diff against
> origin/master or something, which doesn't make any sense if you know how
> git is meant to be used (doing that would imply that you have to
> constantly sync with upstream to create a patch.) I eventually got it to
> used the right commit by doing 'arc diff <commit id>`.
>
> Second, today when I wanted to update my commit to address some review
> comments I 1) amended my commit in my feature branch and 2) ran 'arc
> diff', expecting that it would do the right thing. It didn't and now
> D128 contains a bunch of changes that aren't mine. I don't know where
> they came from.
>
> Is there a way to configure Phab so it works with git established workflows?
>
> -- Johan
>
>
>
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