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2022-02-16Merge branch 'js/diff-filter-negation-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+2
"git diff --diff-filter=aR" is now parsed correctly. * js/diff-filter-negation-fix: diff-filter: be more careful when looking for negative bits diff.c: move the diff filter bits definitions up a bit docs(diff): lose incorrect claim about `diff-files --diff-filter=A`
2022-02-02show, log: provide a --remerge-diff capabilityLibravatar Elijah Newren1-1/+13
When this option is specified, we remerge all (two parent) merge commits and diff the actual merge commit to the automatically created version, in order to show how users removed conflict markers, resolved the different conflict versions, and potentially added new changes outside of conflict regions in order to resolve semantic merge problems (or, possibly, just to hide other random changes). This capability works by creating a temporary object directory and marking it as the primary object store. This makes it so that any blobs or trees created during the automatic merge are easily removable afterwards by just deleting all objects from the temporary object directory. There are a few ways that this implementation is suboptimal: * `log --remerge-diff` becomes slow, because the temporary object directory can fill with many loose objects while running * the log output can be muddied with misplaced "warning: cannot merge binary files" messages, since ll-merge.c unconditionally writes those messages to stderr while running instead of allowing callers to manage them. * important conflict and warning messages are simply dropped; thus for conflicts like modify/delete or rename/rename or file/directory which are not representable with content conflict markers, there may be no way for a user of --remerge-diff to know that there had been a conflict which was resolved (and which possibly motivated other changes in the merge commit). * when fixing the previous issue, note that some unimportant conflict and warning messages might start being included. We should instead make sure these remain dropped. Subsequent commits will address these issues. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-01-28docs(diff): lose incorrect claim about `diff-files --diff-filter=A`Libravatar Johannes Schindelin1-5/+2
Originally, before we had `--intent-to-add`, there was no way that `git diff-files` could see added files: if a file did not exist in the index, `git diff-files` would not show it because it looks only at worktree files when there is an index entry at the same path. We used this example in the documentation of the diff options to explain that not every `--diff-filter=<option>` has an effect in all scenarios. Even when we added `--intent-to-add`, the comment was still correct, because initially we showed such files as modified instead of added. However, when that bug was fixed in feea6946a5b (diff-files: treat "i-t-a" files as "not-in-index", 2020-06-20), the comment in the documentation became incorrect. Let's just remove it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-11Merge branch 'jn/log-m-does-not-imply-p'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+4
Earlier "git log -m" was changed to always produce patch output, which would break existing scripts, which has been reverted. * jn/log-m-does-not-imply-p: Revert 'diff-merges: let "-m" imply "-p"'
2021-08-09Revert 'diff-merges: let "-m" imply "-p"'Libravatar Jonathan Nieder1-4/+4
This reverts commit f5bfcc823ba242a46e20fb6f71c9fbf7ebb222fe, which made "git log -m" imply "--patch" by default. The logic was that "-m", which makes diff generation for merges perform a diff against each parent, has no use unless I am viewing the diff, so we could save the user some typing by turning on display of the resulting diff automatically. That wasn't expected to adversely affect scripts because scripts would either be using a command like "git diff-tree" that already emits diffs by default or would be combining -m with a diff generation option such as --name-status. By saving typing for interactive use without adversely affecting scripts in the wild, it would be a pure improvement. The problem is that although diff generation options are only relevant for the displayed diff, a script author can imagine them affecting path limiting. For example, I might run git log -w --format=%H -- README hoping to list commits that edited README, excluding whitespace-only changes. In fact, a whitespace-only change is not TREESAME so the use of -w here has no effect (since we don't apply these diff generation flags to the diff_options struct rev_info::pruning used for this purpose), but the documentation suggests that it should work Suppose you specified foo as the <paths>. We shall call commits that modify foo !TREESAME, and the rest TREESAME. (In a diff filtered for foo, they look different and equal, respectively.) and a script author who has not tested whitespace-only changes wouldn't notice. Similarly, a script author could include git log -m --first-parent --format=%H -- README to filter the first-parent history for commits that modified README. The -m is a no-op but it reflects the script author's intent. For example, until 1e20a407fe2 (stash list: stop passing "-m" to "git log", 2021-05-21), "git stash list" did this. As a result, we can't safely change "-m" to imply "-p" without fear of breaking such scripts. Restore the previous behavior. Noticed because Rust's src/bootstrap/bootstrap.py made use of this same construct: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/87513. That script has been updated to omit the unnecessary "-m" option, but we can expect other scripts in the wild to have similar expectations. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-15diffcore-rename: treat a rename_limit of 0 as unlimitedLibravatar Elijah Newren1-0/+1
In commit 89973554b52c (diffcore-rename: make diff-tree -l0 mean -l<large>, 2017-11-29), -l0 was given a special magical "large" value, but one which was not large enough for some uses (as can be seen from commit 9f7e4bfa3b6d (diff: remove silent clamp of renameLimit, 2017-11-13). Make 0 (or a negative value) be treated as unlimited instead and update the documentation to mention this. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-15doc: clarify documentation for rename/copy limitsLibravatar Elijah Newren1-5/+10
A few places in the docs implied that rename/copy detection is always quadratic or that all (unpaired) files were involved in the quadratic portion of rename/copy detection. The following two commits each introduced an exception to this: 9027f53cb505 (Do linear-time/space rename logic for exact renames, 2007-10-25) bd24aa2f97a0 (diffcore-rename: guide inexact rename detection based on basenames, 2021-02-14) (As a side note, for copy detection, the basename guided inexact rename detection is turned off and the exact renames will only result in sources (without the dests) being removed from the set of files used in quadratic detection. So, for copy detection, the documentation was closer to correct.) Avoid implying that all files involved in rename/copy detection are subject to the full quadratic algorithm. While at it, also note the default values for all these settings. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-06-14Merge branch 'so/log-m-implies-p'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+4
The "-m" option in "git log -m" that does not specify which format, if any, of diff is desired did not have any visible effect; it now implies some form of diff (by default "--patch") is produced. * so/log-m-implies-p: diff-merges: let "-m" imply "-p" diff-merges: rename "combined_imply_patch" to "merges_imply_patch" stash list: stop passing "-m" to "git log" git-svn: stop passing "-m" to "git rev-list" diff-merges: move specific diff-index "-m" handling to diff-index t4013: test "git diff-index -m" t4013: test "git diff-tree -m" t4013: test "git log -m --stat" t4013: test "git log -m --raw" t4013: test that "-m" alone has no effect in "git log"
2021-05-21diff-merges: let "-m" imply "-p"Libravatar Sergey Organov1-4/+4
Fix long standing inconsistency between -c/--cc that do imply -p on one side, and -m that did not imply -p on the other side. Change corresponding test accordingly, as "log -m" output should now match one from "log -m -p", rather than from just "log". Change documentation accordingly. NOTES: After this patch git log -m produces diffs without need to provide -p as well, that improves both consistency and usability. It gets even more useful if one sets "log.diffMerges" configuration variable to "first-parent" to force -m produce usual diff with respect to first parent only. This patch, however, does not change behavior when specific diff format is explicitly provided on the command-line, so that commands like git log -m --raw git log -m --stat are not affected, nor does it change commands where specific diff format is active by default, such as: git diff-tree -m It's also worth to be noticed that exact historical semantics of -m is still provided by --diff-merges=separate. Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-30Merge branch 'ab/pathname-encoding-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+4
Clarify that pathnames recorded in Git trees are most often (but not necessarily) encoded in UTF-8. * ab/pathname-encoding-doc: doc: clarify the filename encoding in git diff
2021-04-20doc: clarify the filename encoding in git diffLibravatar Andrey Bienkowski1-1/+4
AFAICT parsing the output of `git diff --name-only master...feature` is the intended way of programmatically getting the list of files modified by a feature branch. It is impossible to parse text unless you know what encoding it is in. The output encoding of diff --name-only and Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-16doc/diff-options: document new --diff-merges featuresLibravatar Sergey Organov1-4/+11
Document changes in -m and --diff-merges=m semantics, as well as new --diff-merges=on option. Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-16diff: --{rotate,skip}-to=<path>Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
In the implementation of "git difftool", there is a case where the user wants to start viewing the diffs at a specific path and continue on to the rest, optionally wrapping around to the beginning. Since it is somewhat cumbersome to implement such a feature as a post-processing step of "git diff" output, let's support it internally with two new options. - "git diff --rotate-to=C", when the resulting patch would show paths A B C D E without the option, would "rotate" the paths to shows patch to C D E A B instead. It is an error when there is no patch for C is shown. - "git diff --skip-to=C" would instead "skip" the paths before C, and shows patch to C D E. Again, it is an error when there is no patch for C is shown. - "git log [-p]" also accepts these two options, but it is not an error if there is no change to the specified path. Instead, the set of output paths are rotated or skipped to the specified path or the first path that sorts after the specified path. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-05Merge branch 'so/log-diff-merge'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+51
"git log" learned a new "--diff-merges=<how>" option. * so/log-diff-merge: (32 commits) t4013: add tests for --diff-merges=first-parent doc/git-show: include --diff-merges description doc/rev-list-options: document --first-parent changes merges format doc/diff-generate-patch: mention new --diff-merges option doc/git-log: describe new --diff-merges options diff-merges: add '--diff-merges=1' as synonym for 'first-parent' diff-merges: add old mnemonic counterparts to --diff-merges diff-merges: let new options enable diff without -p diff-merges: do not imply -p for new options diff-merges: implement new values for --diff-merges diff-merges: make -m/-c/--cc explicitly mutually exclusive diff-merges: refactor opt settings into separate functions diff-merges: get rid of now empty diff_merges_init_revs() diff-merges: group diff-merge flags next to each other inside 'rev_info' diff-merges: split 'ignore_merges' field diff-merges: fix -m to properly override -c/--cc t4013: add tests for -m failing to override -c/--cc t4013: support test_expect_failure through ':failure' magic diff-merges: revise revs->diff flag handling diff-merges: handle imply -p on -c/--cc logic for log.c ...
2020-12-21doc/git-show: include --diff-merges descriptionLibravatar Sergey Organov1-0/+51
Move description of --diff-merges option from git-log.txt to diff-options.txt so that it is included in the git-show help. Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-18Merge branch 'pb/blame-funcname-range-userdiff'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+4
"git blame -L :funcname -- path" did not work well for a path for which a userdiff driver is defined. * pb/blame-funcname-range-userdiff: blame: simplify 'setup_blame_bloom_data' interface blame: simplify 'setup_scoreboard' interface blame: enable funcname blaming with userdiff driver line-log: mention both modes in 'blame' and 'log' short help doc: add more pointers to gitattributes(5) for userdiff blame-options.txt: also mention 'funcname' in '-L' description doc: line-range: improve formatting doc: log, gitk: move '-L' description to 'line-range-options.txt'
2020-11-11Merge branch 'jc/abbrev-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
The documentation on the "--abbrev=<n>" option did not say the output may be longer than "<n>" hexdigits, which has been clarified. * jc/abbrev-doc: doc: clarify that --abbrev=<n> is about the minimum length
2020-11-11Merge branch 'so/format-patch-doc-on-default-diff-format'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+6
Docfix. * so/format-patch-doc-on-default-diff-format: doc/diff-options: fix out of place mentions of '--patch/-p'
2020-11-04doc: clarify that --abbrev=<n> is about the minimum lengthLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Early text written in 2006 explains the "--abbrev=<n>" option to "show only a partial prefix", without saying that the length of the partial prefix is not necessarily the number given to the option to ensure that the output names the object uniquely. Update documentation for the diff family of commands, "blame", "branch --verbose", "ls-files" and "ls-tree" to stress that the short prefix must uniquely refer to an object, and <n> is merely the mininum number of hexdigits used in the prefix. Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-02Merge branch 'mk/diff-ignore-regex'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
"git diff" family of commands learned the "-I<regex>" option to ignore hunks whose changed lines all match the given pattern. * mk/diff-ignore-regex: diff: add -I<regex> that ignores matching changes merge-base, xdiff: zero out xpparam_t structures
2020-11-01doc: add more pointers to gitattributes(5) for userdiffLibravatar Philippe Blain1-1/+4
Several Git commands can make use of the builtin userdiff patterns, but it's not obvious in the documentation. Add pointers to the 'Defining a custom hunk header' part of gitattributes(5) in the description of the following options: - the '--function-context' option of `git diff` and friends - the '--function-context' option of `git grep` - the '-L :<funcname>' option of `git log`, `gitk` and `git blame` In 'git-grep.txt', take the opportunity to use backticks in the description of '--show-function', and improve the wording of the desription of '--function-context'. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-10-31doc/diff-options: fix out of place mentions of '--patch/-p'Libravatar Sergey Organov1-3/+6
First, references to --patch and -p appeared in the description of git-format-patch, where the options themselves are not included. Next, the description of --unified option elsewhere had duplicate implied statements: "Implies --patch. Implies -p." Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-10-20diff: add -I<regex> that ignores matching changesLibravatar Michał Kępień1-0/+5
Add a new diff option that enables ignoring changes whose all lines (changed, removed, and added) match a given regular expression. This is similar to the -I/--ignore-matching-lines option in standalone diff utilities and can be used e.g. to ignore changes which only affect code comments or to look for unrelated changes in commits containing a large number of automatically applied modifications (e.g. a tree-wide string replacement). The difference between -G/-S and the new -I option is that the latter filters output on a per-change basis. Use the 'ignore' field of xdchange_t for marking a change as ignored or not. Since the same field is used by --ignore-blank-lines, identical hunk emitting rules apply for --ignore-blank-lines and -I. These two options can also be used together in the same git invocation (they are complementary to each other). Rename xdl_mark_ignorable() to xdl_mark_ignorable_lines(), to indicate that it is logically a "sibling" of xdl_mark_ignorable_regex() rather than its "parent". Signed-off-by: Michał Kępień <michal@isc.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-31Merge branch 'dd/diff-customize-index-line-abbrev'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+5
The output from the "diff" family of the commands had abbreviated object names of blobs involved in the patch, but its length was not affected by the --abbrev option. Now it is. * dd/diff-customize-index-line-abbrev: diff: index-line: respect --abbrev in object's name t4013: improve diff-post-processor logic
2020-08-21diff: index-line: respect --abbrev in object's nameLibravatar Đoàn Trần Công Danh1-4/+5
A handful of Git's commands respect `--abbrev' for customizing length of abbreviation of object names. For diff-family, Git supports 2 different options for 2 different purposes, `--full-index' for showing diff-patch object's name in full, and `--abbrev' to customize the length of object names in diff-raw and diff-tree header lines, without any options to customise the length of object names in diff-patch format. When working with diff-patch format, we only have two options, either full index, or default abbrev length. Although, that behaviour is documented, it doesn't stop users from trying to use `--abbrev' with the hope of customising diff-patch's objects' name's abbreviation. Let's allow the blob object names shown on the "index" line to be abbreviated to arbitrary length given via the "--abbrev" option. To preserve backward compatibility with old script that specify both `--full-index' and `--abbrev', always show full object id if `--full-index' is specified. Signed-off-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-29doc/git-log: move "-t" into diff-options listLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+5
The "-t" option is infrequently used; it doesn't deserve a spot near the top of the options list. Let's push it down into the diff-options include, near the definition of --raw. We'll protect it with a git-log ifdef, since it doesn't make any sense for non-tree diff commands. Note that this means it also shows up in git-show, but that's a good thing; it applies equally well there. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-24diff: add config option relativeLibravatar Laurent Arnoud1-1/+4
The `diff.relative` boolean option set to `true` shows only changes in the current directory/value specified by the `path` argument of the `relative` option and shows pathnames relative to the aforementioned directory. Teach `--no-relative` to override earlier `--relative` Add for git-format-patch(1) options documentation `--relative` and `--no-relative` Signed-off-by: Laurent Arnoud <laurent@spkdev.net> Acked-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-09diff-options.txt: avoid "regex" overload in exampleLibravatar Martin Ågren1-4/+4
When we exemplify the difference between `-G` and `-S` (using `--pickaxe-regex`), we do so using an example diff and git-diff invocation involving "regexec", "regexp", "regmatch", ... The example is correct, but we can make it easier to untangle by avoiding writing "regex.*" unless it's really needed to make our point. Use some made-up, non-regexy words instead. Reported-by: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org> Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-16Merge branch 'nd/diff-parseopt-3'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Third batch to teach the diff machinery to use the parse-options API. * nd/diff-parseopt-3: diff-parseopt: convert --submodule diff-parseopt: convert --ignore-submodules diff-parseopt: convert --textconv diff-parseopt: convert --ext-diff diff-parseopt: convert --quiet diff-parseopt: convert --exit-code diff-parseopt: convert --color-words diff-parseopt: convert --word-diff-regex diff-parseopt: convert --word-diff diff-parseopt: convert --[no-]color diff-parseopt: convert --[no-]follow diff-parseopt: convert -R diff-parseopt: convert -a|--text diff-parseopt: convert --full-index diff-parseopt: convert --binary diff-parseopt: convert --anchored diff-parseopt: convert --diff-algorithm diff-parseopt: convert --histogram diff-parseopt: convert --patience diff-parseopt: convert --[no-]indent-heuristic
2019-03-07Merge branch 'nd/diff-parseopt-2'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+20
Second batch to teach the diff machinery to use the parse-options API. * nd/diff-parseopt-2: (21 commits) diff-parseopt: convert --ignore-some-changes diff-parseopt: convert --[no-]minimal diff-parseopt: convert --relative diff-parseopt: convert --no-renames|--[no--rename-empty diff-parseopt: convert --find-copies-harder diff-parseopt: convert -C|--find-copies diff-parseopt: convert -D|--irreversible-delete diff-parseopt: convert -M|--find-renames diff-parseopt: convert -B|--break-rewrites diff-parseopt: convert --output-* diff-parseopt: convert --[no-]compact-summary diff-parseopt: convert --stat* diff-parseopt: convert -s|--no-patch diff-parseopt: convert --name-status diff-parseopt: convert --name-only diff-parseopt: convert --patch-with-stat diff-parseopt: convert --summary diff-parseopt: convert --check diff-parseopt: convert --dirstat and friends diff-parseopt: convert --numstat and --shortstat ...
2019-03-07Merge branch 'nd/diff-parseopt'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
The diff machinery, one of the oldest parts of the system, which long predates the parse-options API, uses fairly long and complex handcrafted option parser. This is being rewritten to use the parse-options API. * nd/diff-parseopt: diff.c: convert --raw diff.c: convert -W|--[no-]function-context diff.c: convert -U|--unified diff.c: convert -u|-p|--patch diff.c: prepare to use parse_options() for parsing diff.h: avoid bit fields in struct diff_flags diff.h: keep forward struct declarations sorted parse-options: allow ll_callback with OPTION_CALLBACK parse-options: avoid magic return codes parse-options: stop abusing 'callback' for lowlevel callbacks parse-options: add OPT_BITOP() parse-options: disable option abbreviation with PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN parse-options: add one-shot mode parse-options.h: remove extern on function prototypes
2019-03-07diff-parseopt: convert --binaryLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-02-21diff-parseopt: convert --no-renames|--[no--rename-emptyLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+3
For --rename-empty, see 90d43b0768 (teach diffcore-rename to optionally ignore empty content - 2012-03-22) for more information. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-02-21diff-parseopt: convert --output-*Libravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+10
This also validates that the user specifies a single character in --output-indicator-*, not a string. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-02-21diff-parseopt: convert --dirstat and friendsLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+7
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-29Merge branch 'pw/diff-color-moved-ws-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+13
"git diff --color-moved-ws" updates. * pw/diff-color-moved-ws-fix: diff --color-moved-ws: handle blank lines diff --color-moved-ws: modify allow-indentation-change diff --color-moved-ws: optimize allow-indentation-change diff --color-moved=zebra: be stricter with color alternation diff --color-moved-ws: fix false positives diff --color-moved-ws: demonstrate false positives diff: allow --no-color-moved-ws Use "whitespace" consistently diff: document --no-color-moved
2019-01-27diff.c: convert -U|--unifiedLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-10diff: allow --no-color-moved-wsLibravatar Phillip Wood1-0/+7
Allow --no-color-moved-ws and --color-moved-ws=no to cancel any previous --color-moved-ws option. Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-10Use "whitespace" consistentlyLibravatar Phillip Wood1-2/+2
Most of the messages and documentation use 'whitespace' rather than 'white space' or 'white spaces' convert to latter two to the former for consistency. Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-10diff: document --no-color-movedLibravatar Phillip Wood1-0/+4
Add documentation for --no-color-moved. Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-12-26log -G: ignore binary filesLibravatar Thomas Braun1-0/+5
The -G<regex> option of log looks for the differences whose patch text contains added/removed lines that match regex. Currently -G looks also into patches of binary files (which according to [1]) is binary as well. This has a couple of issues: - It makes the pickaxe search slow. In a proprietary repository of the author with only ~5500 commits and a total .git size of ~300MB searching takes ~13 seconds $time git log -Gwave > /dev/null real 0m13,241s user 0m12,596s sys 0m0,644s whereas when we ignore binary files with this patch it takes ~4s $time ~/devel/git/git log -Gwave > /dev/null real 0m3,713s user 0m3,608s sys 0m0,105s which is a speedup of more than fourfold. - The internally used algorithm for generating patch text is based on xdiff and its states in [1] > The output format of the binary patch file is proprietary > (and binary) and it is basically a collection of copy and insert > commands [..] which means that the current format could change once the internal algorithm is changed as the format is not standardized. In addition the git binary patch format used for preparing patches for git apply is *different* from the xdiff format as can be seen by comparing git log -p -a commit 6e95bf4bafccf14650d02ab57f3affe669be10cf Author: A U Thor <author@example.com> Date: Thu Apr 7 15:14:13 2005 -0700 modify binary file diff --git a/data.bin b/data.bin index f414c84..edfeb6f 100644 --- a/data.bin +++ b/data.bin @@ -1,2 +1,4 @@ a a^@a +a +a^@a with git log --binary commit 6e95bf4bafccf14650d02ab57f3affe669be10cf Author: A U Thor <author@example.com> Date: Thu Apr 7 15:14:13 2005 -0700 modify binary file diff --git a/data.bin b/data.bin index f414c84bd3aa25fa07836bb1fb73db784635e24b..edfeb6f501[..] GIT binary patch literal 12 QcmYe~N@Pgn0zx1O01)N^ZvX%Q literal 6 NcmYe~N@Pgn0ssWg0XP5v which seems unexpected. To resolve these issues this patch makes -G<regex> ignore binary files by default. Textconv filters are supported and also -a/--text for getting the old and broken behaviour back. The -S<block of text> option of log looks for differences that changes the number of occurrences of the specified block of text (i.e. addition/deletion) in a file. As we want to keep the current behaviour, add a test to ensure it stays that way. [1]: http://www.xmailserver.org/xdiff.html Signed-off-by: Thomas Braun <thomas.braun@virtuell-zuhause.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-15Merge branch 'es/diff-color-moved-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
One of the "diff --color-moved" mode "dimmed_zebra" that was named in an unusual way has been deprecated and replaced by "dimmed-zebra". * es/diff-color-moved-fix: diff: --color-moved: rename "dimmed_zebra" to "dimmed-zebra"
2018-08-02Merge branch 'sb/diff-color-move-more'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+31
"git diff --color-moved" feature has further been tweaked. * sb/diff-color-move-more: diff.c: offer config option to control ws handling in move detection diff.c: add white space mode to move detection that allows indent changes diff.c: factor advance_or_nullify out of mark_color_as_moved diff.c: decouple white space treatment from move detection algorithm diff.c: add a blocks mode for moved code detection diff.c: adjust hash function signature to match hashmap expectation diff.c: do not pass diff options as keydata to hashmap t4015: avoid git as a pipe input xdiff/xdiffi.c: remove unneeded function declarations xdiff/xdiff.h: remove unused flags
2018-07-25diff: --color-moved: rename "dimmed_zebra" to "dimmed-zebra"Libravatar Eric Sunshine1-1/+2
The --color-moved "dimmed_zebra" mode (with an underscore) is an anachronism. Most options and modes are hyphenated. It is more difficult to type and somewhat more difficult to read than those which are hyphenated. Therefore, rename it to "dimmed-zebra", and nominally deprecate "dimmed_zebra". Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-19diff.c: offer config option to control ws handling in move detectionLibravatar Stefan Beller1-2/+5
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-19diff.c: add white space mode to move detection that allows indent changesLibravatar Stefan Beller1-0/+5
The option of --color-moved has proven to be useful as observed on the mailing list. However when refactoring sometimes the indentation changes, for example when partitioning a functions into smaller helper functions the code usually mostly moved around except for a decrease in indentation. To just review the moved code ignoring the change in indentation, a mode to ignore spaces in the move detection as implemented in a previous patch would be enough. However the whole move coloring as motivated in commit 2e2d5ac (diff.c: color moved lines differently, 2017-06-30), brought up the notion of the reviewer being able to trust the move of a "block". As there are languages such as python, which depend on proper relative indentation for the control flow of the program, ignoring any white space change in a block would not uphold the promises of 2e2d5ac that allows reviewers to pay less attention to the inside of a block, as inside the reviewer wants to assume the same program flow. This new mode of white space ignorance will take this into account and will only allow the same white space changes per line in each block. This patch even allows only for the same change at the beginning of the lines. As this is a white space mode, it is made exclusive to other white space modes in the move detection. This patch brings some challenges, related to the detection of blocks. We need a wide net to catch the possible moved lines, but then need to narrow down to check if the blocks are still intact. Consider this example (ignoring block sizes): - A - B - C + A + B + C At the beginning of a block when checking if there is a counterpart for A, we have to ignore all space changes. However at the following lines we have to check if the indent change stayed the same. Checking if the indentation change did stay the same, is done by computing the indentation change by the difference in line length, and then assume the change is only in the beginning of the longer line, the common tail is the same. That is why the test contains lines like: - <TAB> A ... + A <TAB> ... As the first line starting a block is caught using a compare function that ignores white spaces unlike the rest of the block, where the white space delta is taken into account for the comparison, we also have to think about the following situation: - A - B - A - B + A + B + A + B When checking if the first A (both in the + and - lines) is a start of a block, we have to check all 'A' and record all the white space deltas such that we can find the example above to be just one block that is indented. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-17diff.c: decouple white space treatment from move detection algorithmLibravatar Stefan Beller1-0/+17
In the original implementation of the move detection logic the choice for ignoring white space changes is the same for the move detection as it is for the regular diff. Some cases came up where different treatment would have been nice. Allow the user to specify that white space should be ignored differently during detection of moved lines than during generation of added and removed lines. This is done by providing analogs to the --ignore-space-at-eol, -b, and -w options by introducing the option --color-moved-ws=<modes> with the modes named "ignore-space-at-eol", "ignore-space-change" and "ignore-all-space", which is used only during the move detection phase. As we change the default, we'll adjust the tests. For now we do not infer any options to treat white spaces in the move detection from the generic white space options given to diff. This can be tuned later to reasonable default. As we plan on adding more white space related options in a later patch, that interferes with the current white space options, use a flag field and clamp it down to XDF_WHITESPACE_FLAGS, as that (a) allows to easily check at parse time if we give invalid combinations and (b) can reuse parts of this patch. By having the white space treatment in its own option, we'll also make it easier for a later patch to have an config option for spaces in the move detection. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-17diff.c: add a blocks mode for moved code detectionLibravatar Stefan Beller1-2/+6
The new "blocks" mode provides a middle ground between plain and zebra. It is as intuitive (few colors) as plain, but still has the requirement for a minimum of lines/characters to count a block as moved. Suggested-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> (https://public-inbox.org/git/87o9j0uljo.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/) Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-19doc: fix typos in documentation and release notesLibravatar Karthikeyan Singaravelan1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Karthikeyan Singaravelan <tir.karthi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-18Merge branch 'rd/diff-options-typofix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+4
Typofix. * rd/diff-options-typofix: diff-options.txt: fix minor typos, font inconsistencies, in docs