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2013-07-22Merge branch 'mm/diff-no-patch-synonym-to-s'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
"git show -s" was less discoverable than it should be. * mm/diff-no-patch-synonym-to-s: Documentation/git-log.txt: capitalize section names Documentation: move description of -s, --no-patch to diff-options.txt Documentation/git-show.txt: include common diff options, like git-log.txt diff: allow --patch & cie to override -s/--no-patch diff: allow --no-patch as synonym for -s t4000-diff-format.sh: modernize style
2013-07-17Documentation: move description of -s, --no-patch to diff-options.txtLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-0/+5
Technically, "-s, --no-patch" is implemented in diff.c ("git diff --no-patch" is essentially useless, but valid). From the user point of view, this allows the documentation to show up in "git show --help", which is one of the most useful use of the option. While we're there, add a sentence explaining why the option can be useful. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-12Merge branch 'ft/diff-rename-default-score-is-half'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* ft/diff-rename-default-score-is-half: diff-options: document default similarity index
2013-07-05diff-options: document default similarity indexLibravatar Fraser Tweedale1-1/+1
The default similarity index of 50% is documented in gitdiffcore(7) but it is worth also mentioning it in the description of the -M/--find-renames option. Signed-off-by: Fraser Tweedale <frase@frase.id.au> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-30Merge branch 'ap/diff-ignore-blank-lines'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
"git diff" learned a mode that ignores hunks whose change consists only of additions and removals of blank lines, which is the same as "diff -B" (ignore blank lines) of GNU diff. * ap/diff-ignore-blank-lines: diff: add --ignore-blank-lines option
2013-06-19diff: add --ignore-blank-lines optionLibravatar Antoine Pelisse1-0/+3
The goal of the patch is to introduce the GNU diff -B/--ignore-blank-lines as closely as possible. The short option is not available because it's already used for "break-rewrites". When this option is used, git-diff will not create hunks that simply add or remove empty lines, but will still show empty lines addition/suppression if they are close enough to "valuable" changes. There are two differences between this option and GNU diff -B option: - GNU diff doesn't have "--inter-hunk-context", so this must be handled - The following sequence looks like a bug (context is displayed twice): $ seq 5 >file1 $ cat <<EOF >file2 change 1 2 3 4 5 change EOF $ diff -u -B file1 file2 --- file1 2013-06-08 22:13:04.471517834 +0200 +++ file2 2013-06-08 22:13:23.275517855 +0200 @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ +change 1 2 + 3 4 5 @@ -3,3 +5,4 @@ 3 4 5 +change So here is a more thorough description of the option: - real changes are interesting - blank lines that are close enough (less than context size) to interesting changes are considered interesting (recursive definition) - "context" lines are used around each hunk of interesting changes - If two hunks are separated by less than "inter-hunk-context", they will be merged into one. The implementation does the "interesting changes selection" in a single pass. Signed-off-by: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-11Merge branch 'rr/diffcore-pickaxe-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-8/+30
Update the low-level diffcore documentation on -S/-G and --pickaxe-all. * rr/diffcore-pickaxe-doc: diffcore-pickaxe doc: document -S and -G properly diffcore-pickaxe: make error messages more consistent
2013-06-03diffcore-pickaxe doc: document -S and -G properlyLibravatar Ramkumar Ramachandra1-8/+30
The documentation of -S and -G is very sketchy. Completely rewrite the sections in Documentation/diff-options.txt and Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt. References: 52e9578 ([PATCH] Introducing software archaeologist's tool "pickaxe".) f506b8e (git log/diff: add -G<regexp> that greps in the patch text) Inputs-from: Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-28trivial: Add missing period in documentationLibravatar Phil Hord1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-25Merge branch 'maint-1.8.1' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
* maint-1.8.1: bundle: Add colons to list headings in "verify" bundle: Fix "verify" output if history is complete Documentation: filter-branch env-filter example git-filter-branch.txt: clarify ident variables usage git-compat-util.h: Provide missing netdb.h definitions describe: Document --match pattern format Documentation/githooks: Explain pre-rebase parameters update-index: list supported idx versions and their features diff-options: unconfuse description of --color read-cache.c: use INDEX_FORMAT_{LB,UB} in verify_hdr() index-format.txt: mention of v4 is missing in some places
2013-03-25Merge branch 'jc/color-diff-doc' into maint-1.8.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
The "--color=<when>" argument to the commands in the diff family was described poorly. * jc/color-diff-doc: diff-options: unconfuse description of --color
2013-03-19Merge branch 'jc/color-diff-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
The --color[=<when>] option to the diff family was documented in a confusing way. * jc/color-diff-doc: diff-options: unconfuse description of --color
2013-02-22diff-options: unconfuse description of --colorLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
It said "by default it is off" while it also said "the default is always", which confused everybody who read it only once. It wanted to say (1) if you do not say --color, it is not enabled, and (2) if you say --color but do not say when to enable it, it will always be enabled". Rephrase to clarify by using "default" only once. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-17Merge branch 'mp/diff-algo-config'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+20
Add diff.algorithm configuration so that the user does not type "diff --histogram". * mp/diff-algo-config: diff: Introduce --diff-algorithm command line option config: Introduce diff.algorithm variable git-completion.bash: Autocomplete --minimal and --histogram for git-diff
2013-02-01Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'Libravatar Thomas Ackermann1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-16diff: Introduce --diff-algorithm command line optionLibravatar Michal Privoznik1-0/+20
Since command line options have higher priority than config file variables and taking previous commit into account, we need a way how to specify myers algorithm on command line. However, inventing `--myers` is not the right answer. We need far more general option, and that is `--diff-algorithm`. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-18Sync with 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+5
2012-12-18clarify -M without % symbol in diff-optionsLibravatar Sitaram Chamarty1-1/+5
Signed-off-by: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-11-18diff: introduce diff.submodule configuration variableLibravatar Ramkumar Ramachandra1-1/+2
Introduce a diff.submodule configuration variable corresponding to the '--submodule' command-line option of 'git diff'. Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-22Documentation: Fix misspellingsLibravatar Leila Muhtasib1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Leila Muhtasib <muhtasib@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-26docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literalLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
In asciidoc 7, backticks like `foo` produced a typographic effect, but did not otherwise affect the syntax. In asciidoc 8, backticks introduce an "inline literal" inside which markup is not interpreted. To keep compatibility with existing documents, asciidoc 8 has a "no-inline-literal" attribute to keep the old behavior. We enabled this so that the documentation could be built on either version. It has been several years now, and asciidoc 7 is no longer in wide use. We can now decide whether or not we want inline literals on their own merits, which are: 1. The source is much easier to read when the literal contains punctuation. You can use `master~1` instead of `master{tilde}1`. 2. They are less error-prone. Because of point (1), we tend to make mistakes and forget the extra layer of quoting. This patch removes the no-inline-literal attribute from the Makefile and converts every use of backticks in the documentation to an inline literal (they must be cleaned up, or the example above would literally show "{tilde}" in the output). Problematic sites were found by grepping for '`.*[{\\]' and examined and fixed manually. The results were then verified by comparing the output of "html2text" on the set of generated html pages. Doing so revealed that in addition to making the source more readable, this patch fixes several formatting bugs: - HTML rendering used the ellipsis character instead of literal "..." in code examples (like "git log A...B") - some code examples used the right-arrow character instead of '->' because they failed to quote - api-config.txt did not quote tilde, and the resulting HTML contained a bogus snippet like: <tt><sub></tt> foo <tt></sub>bar</tt> which caused some parsers to choke and omit whole sections of the page. - git-commit.txt confused ``foo`` (backticks inside a literal) with ``foo'' (matched double-quotes) - mentions of `A U Thor <author@example.com>` used to erroneously auto-generate a mailto footnote for author@example.com - the description of --word-diff=plain incorrectly showed the output as "[-removed-] and {added}", not "{+added+}". - using "prime" notation like: commit `C` and its replacement `C'` confused asciidoc into thinking that everything between the first backtick and the final apostrophe were meant to be inside matched quotes - asciidoc got confused by the escaping of some of our asterisks. In particular, `credential.\*` and `credential.<url>.\*` properly escaped the asterisk in the first case, but literally passed through the backslash in the second case. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-15Merge branch 'th/doc-diff-submodule-option'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+6
* th/doc-diff-submodule-option: Documentation/diff-options: reword description of --submodule option
2012-03-14Documentation/diff-options: reword description of --submodule optionLibravatar Tim Henigan1-5/+6
The previous description was confusing. This rewrite makes it easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-06Merge branch 'zj/diff-stat-dyncol'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+12
By Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (8) and Junio C Hamano (1) * zj/diff-stat-dyncol: : This breaks tests. Perhaps it is not worth using the decimal-width stuff : for this series, at least initially. diff --stat: add config option to limit graph width diff --stat: enable limiting of the graph part diff --stat: add a test for output with COLUMNS=40 diff --stat: use a maximum of 5/8 for the filename part merge --stat: use the full terminal width log --stat: use the full terminal width show --stat: use the full terminal width diff --stat: use the full terminal width diff --stat: tests for long filenames and big change counts
2012-03-06Merge branch 'maint-1.7.7' into maint-1.7.8Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
By Thomas Rast * maint-1.7.7: Document the --histogram diff option
2012-03-06Document the --histogram diff optionLibravatar Thomas Rast1-0/+3
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-01diff --stat: add config option to limit graph widthLibravatar Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek1-7/+9
Config option diff.statGraphWidth=<width> is equivalent to --stat-graph-width=<width>, except that the config option is ignored by format-patch. For the graph-width limiting to be usable, it should happen 'automatically' once configured, hence the config option. Nevertheless, graph width limiting only makes sense when used on a wide terminal, so it should not influence the output of format-patch, which adheres to the 80-column standard. Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-01diff --stat: enable limiting of the graph partLibravatar Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek1-0/+2
A new option --stat-graph-width=<width> can be used to limit the width of the graph part even is more space is available. Up to <width> columns will be used for the graph. If commits changing a lot of lines are displayed in a wide terminal window (200 or more columns), and the +- graph uses the full width, the output can be hard to comfortably scan with a horizontal movement of human eyes. Messages wrapped to about 80 columns would be interspersed with very long +- lines. It makes sense to limit the width of the graph part to a fixed value (e.g. 70 columns), even if more columns are available. Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-01diff --stat: use a maximum of 5/8 for the filename partLibravatar Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek1-6/+8
The way that available columns are divided between the filename part and the graph part is modified to use as many columns as necessary for the filenames and the rest for the graph. If there isn't enough columns to print both the filename and the graph, at least 5/8 of available space is devoted to filenames. On a standard 80 column terminal, or if not connected to a terminal and using the default of 80 columns, this gives the same partition as before. The effect of this change is visible in the patch to the test vector in t4052; with a small change with long filename, it stops truncating the name part too short, and also allocates a bit more columns to the graph for larger changes. Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-08Sync with 1.7.7.3Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-08docs: don't mention --quiet or --exit-code in git-log(1)Libravatar Jeff King1-0/+2
These are diff-options, but they don't actually make sense in the context of log. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-19Merge branch 'rs/diff-whole-function'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
* rs/diff-whole-function: diff: add option to show whole functions as context xdiff: factor out get_func_line()
2011-10-10diff: add option to show whole functions as contextLibravatar René Scharfe1-0/+4
Add the option -W/--function-context to git diff. It is similar to the same option of git grep and expands the context of change hunks so that the whole surrounding function is shown. This "natural" context can allow changes to be understood better. Note: GNU patch doesn't like diffs generated with the new option; it seems to expect context lines to be the same before and after changes. git apply doesn't complain. This implementation has the same shortcoming as the one in grep, namely that there is no way to explicitly find the end of a function. That means that a few lines of extra context are shown, right up to the next recognized function begins. It's already useful in its current form, though. The function get_func_line() in xdiff/xemit.c is extended to work forward as well as backward to find post-context as well as pre-context. It returns the position of the first found matching line. The func_line parameter is made optional, as we don't need it for -W. The enhanced function is then used in xdl_emit_diff() to extend the context as needed. If the added context overlaps with the next change, it is merged into the current hunk. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-03diff: resurrect XDF_NEED_MINIMAL with --minimalLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
Earlier, 582aa00 (git diff too slow for a file, 2010-05-02) unconditionally dropped XDF_NEED_MINIMAL option from the internal xdiff invocation to help performance on pathological cases, while hinting that a follow-up patch could reintroduce it with "--minimal" option from the command line. Make it so. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-06Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+11
* maint: docs: document --textconv diff option
2011-07-06docs: document --textconv diff optionLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+11
This has been there since textconv existed, but was never documented. There is some overlap with what's in gitattributes(5), but it's important to warn in both places that textconv diffs probably can't be applied. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-29Merge branch 'mg/diff-stat-count'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+7
* mg/diff-stat-count: diff --stat-count: finishing touches diff-options.txt: describe --stat-{width,name-width,count} diff: introduce --stat-lines to limit the stat lines diff.c: omit hidden entries from namelen calculation with --stat
2011-06-22Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+8
* maint: Documentation: git diff --check respects core.whitespace
2011-06-22Documentation: git diff --check respects core.whitespaceLibravatar Christof Krüger1-4/+8
Fix documentation on "git diff --check" by adopting the description from "git apply --whitespace". Signed-off-by: Christof Krüger <git@christof-krueger.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-27diff-options.txt: describe --stat-{width,name-width,count}Libravatar Michael J Gruber1-0/+3
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-27diff: introduce --stat-lines to limit the stat linesLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-1/+4
Often one is interested in the full --stat output only for commits which change a few files, but not others, because larger restructuring gives a --stat which fills a few screens. Introduce a new option --stat-count=<count> which limits the --stat output to the first <count> lines, followed by a "..." line. It can also be given as the third parameter in --stat=<width>,<name-width>,<count>. Also, the unstuck form is supported analogous to the other two stat parameters. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-26Merge branch 'mg/diff-uiconfig-doc' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+11
* mg/diff-uiconfig-doc: config.txt,diff-options.txt: porcelain vs. plumbing for color.diff
2011-05-13Merge branch 'jh/dirstat-lines'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-12/+42
* jh/dirstat-lines: Mark dirstat error messages for translation Improve error handling when parsing dirstat parameters New --dirstat=lines mode, doing dirstat analysis based on diffstat Allow specifying --dirstat cut-off percentage as a floating point number Add config variable for specifying default --dirstat behavior Refactor --dirstat parsing; deprecate --cumulative and --dirstat-by-file Make --dirstat=0 output directories that contribute < 0.1% of changes Add several testcases for --dirstat and friends
2011-05-06Merge branch 'mg/diff-uiconfig-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+11
* mg/diff-uiconfig-doc: config.txt,diff-options.txt: porcelain vs. plumbing for color.diff
2011-05-06Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* maint: Remove duplicated "is a"
2011-05-05Remove duplicated "is a"Libravatar João Britto1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: João Britto <jabcalves@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-29New --dirstat=lines mode, doing dirstat analysis based on diffstatLibravatar Johan Herland1-0/+8
This patch adds an alternative implementation of show_dirstat(), called show_dirstat_by_line(), which uses the more expensive diffstat analysis (as opposed to show_dirstat()'s own (relatively inexpensive) analysis) to derive the numbers from which the --dirstat output is computed. The alternative implementation is controlled by the new "lines" parameter to the --dirstat option (or the diff.dirstat config variable). For binary files, the diffstat analysis counts bytes instead of lines, so to prevent binary files from dominating the dirstat results, the byte counts for binary files are divided by 64 before being compared to their textual/line-based counterparts. This is a stupid and ugly - but very cheap - heuristic. In linux-2.6.git, running the three different --dirstat modes: time git diff v2.6.20..v2.6.30 --dirstat=changes > /dev/null vs. time git diff v2.6.20..v2.6.30 --dirstat=lines > /dev/null vs. time git diff v2.6.20..v2.6.30 --dirstat=files > /dev/null yields the following average runtimes on my machine: - "changes" (default): ~6.0 s - "lines": ~9.6 s - "files": ~0.1 s So, as expected, there's a considerable performance hit (~60%) by going through the full diffstat analysis as compared to the default "changes" analysis (obviously, "files" is much faster than both). As such, the "lines" mode is probably only useful if you really need the --dirstat numbers to be consistent with the numbers returned from the other --*stat options. The patch also includes documentation and tests for the new dirstat mode. Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-29Add config variable for specifying default --dirstat behaviorLibravatar Johan Herland1-0/+2
The new diff.dirstat config variable takes the same arguments as '--dirstat=<args>', and specifies the default arguments for --dirstat. The config is obviously overridden by --dirstat arguments passed on the command line. When not specified, the --dirstat defaults are 'changes,noncumulative,3'. The patch also adds several tests verifying the interaction between the diff.dirstat config variable, and the --dirstat command line option. Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-29Refactor --dirstat parsing; deprecate --cumulative and --dirstat-by-fileLibravatar Johan Herland1-12/+32
Instead of having multiple interconnected dirstat-related options, teach the --dirstat option itself to accept all behavior modifiers as parameters. - Preserve the current --dirstat=<limit> (where <limit> is an integer specifying a cut-off percentage) - Add --dirstat=cumulative, replacing --cumulative - Add --dirstat=files, replacing --dirstat-by-file - Also add --dirstat=changes and --dirstat=noncumulative for specifying the current default behavior. These allow the user to reset other --dirstat parameters (e.g. 'cumulative' and 'files') occuring earlier on the command line. The deprecated options (--cumulative and --dirstat-by-file) are still functional, although they have been removed from the documentation. Allow multiple parameters to be separated by commas, e.g.: --dirstat=files,10,cumulative Update the documentation accordingly, and add testcases verifying the behavior of the new syntax. Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-28Merge branch 'jc/diff-irreversible-delete'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+13
* jc/diff-irreversible-delete: git diff -D: omit the preimage of deletes