Merge branch 'ak/format-patch-odir-config'

"git format-patch" learned to notice format.outputDirectory
configuration variable.  This allows "-o <dir>" option to be
omitted on the command line if you always use the same directory in
your workflow.

* ak/format-patch-odir-config:
  format-patch: introduce format.outputDirectory configuration

Author: gitster

Documentation/config.txt

@@ -1245,6 +1245,10 @@ format.coverLetter::
 	format-patch is invoked, but in addition can be set to "auto", to
 	generate a cover-letter only when there's more than one patch.
 
+format.outputDirectory::
+	Set a custom directory to store the resulting files instead of the
+	current working directory.
+
 filter.<driver>.clean::
 	The command which is used to convert the content of a worktree
 	file to a blob upon checkin.  See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for

Documentation/git-format-patch.txt

@@ -57,7 +57,11 @@ The names of the output files are printed to standard
 output, unless the `--stdout` option is specified.
 
 If `-o` is specified, output files are created in <dir>.  Otherwise
-they are created in the current working directory.
+they are created in the current working directory. The default path
+can be set with the 'format.outputDirectory' configuration option.
+The `-o` option takes precedence over `format.outputDirectory`.
+To store patches in the current working directory even when
+`format.outputDirectory` points elsewhere, use `-o .`.
 
 By default, the subject of a single patch is "[PATCH] " followed by
 the concatenation of lines from the commit message up to the first blank

builtin/log.c

@@ -699,6 +699,7 @@ static int do_signoff;
 static const char *signature = git_version_string;
 static const char *signature_file;
 static int config_cover_letter;
+static const char *config_output_directory;
 
 enum {
 	COVER_UNSET,
@@ -777,6 +778,8 @@ static int git_format_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
 		config_cover_letter = git_config_bool(var, value) ? COVER_ON : COVER_OFF;
 		return 0;
 	}
+	if (!strcmp(var, "format.outputdirectory"))
+		return git_config_string(&config_output_directory, var, value);
 
 	return git_log_config(var, value, cb);
 }
@@ -1391,6 +1394,9 @@ int cmd_format_patch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	if (rev.show_notes)
 		init_display_notes(&rev.notes_opt);
 
+	if (!output_directory && !use_stdout)
+		output_directory = config_output_directory;
+
 	if (!use_stdout)
 		output_directory = set_outdir(prefix, output_directory);
 	else

t/t4014-format-patch.sh

@@ -1445,4 +1445,19 @@ test_expect_success 'From line has expected format' '
 	test_cmp from filtered
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'format-patch format.outputDirectory option' '
+	test_config format.outputDirectory patches &&
+	rm -fr patches &&
+	git format-patch master..side &&
+	test $(git rev-list master..side | wc -l) -eq $(ls patches | wc -l)
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'format-patch -o overrides format.outputDirectory' '
+	test_config format.outputDirectory patches &&
+	rm -fr patches patchset &&
+	git format-patch master..side -o patchset &&
+	test_path_is_missing patches &&
+	test_path_is_dir patchset
+'
+
 test_done