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2016-08-31diff: teach diff to display submodule difference with an inline diffLibravatar Jacob Keller1-7/+10
Teach git-diff and friends a new format for displaying the difference of a submodule. The new format is an inline diff of the contents of the submodule between the commit range of the update. This allows the user to see the actual code change caused by a submodule update. Add tests for the new format and option. Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-31graph: add support for --line-prefix on all graph-aware outputLibravatar Jacob Keller1-0/+3
Add an extension to git-diff and git-log (and any other graph-aware displayable output) such that "--line-prefix=<string>" will print the additional line-prefix on every line of output. To make this work, we have to fix a few bugs in the graph API that force graph_show_commit_msg to be used only when you have a valid graph. Additionally, we extend the default_diff_output_prefix handler to work even when no graph is enabled. This is somewhat of a hack on top of the graph API, but I think it should be acceptable here. This will be used by a future extension of submodule display which displays the submodule diff as the actual diff between the pre and post commit in the submodule project. Add some tests for both git-log and git-diff to ensure that the prefix is honored correctly. Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-25Merge branch 'jc/doc-diff-filter-exclude'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
Belated doc update for a feature added in v1.8.5. * jc/doc-diff-filter-exclude: diff: document diff-filter exclusion
2016-07-14diff: document diff-filter exclusionLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
In v1.8.5 days, 7f2ea5f0 (diff: allow lowercase letter to specify what change class to exclude, 2013-07-17) taught the "--diff-filter" mechanism to take lowercase letters as exclusion, but we forgot to document it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-10Merge branch 'jk/diff-compact-heuristic'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+7
It turns out that the earlier effort to update the heuristics may want to use a bit more time to mature. Turn it off by default. * jk/diff-compact-heuristic: diff: disable compaction heuristic for now
2016-06-10diff: disable compaction heuristic for nowLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+7
http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20160610075043.GA13411@sigill.intra.peff.net reports that a change to add a new "function" with common ending with the existing one at the end of the file is shown like this: def foo do_foo_stuff() + common_ending() +end + +def bar + do_bar_stuff() + common_ending() end when the new heuristic is in use. In reality, the change is to add the blank line before "def bar" and everything below, which is what the code without the new heuristic shows. Disable the heuristics by default, and resurrect the documentation for the option and the configuration variables, while clearly marking the feature as still experimental. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-05-09Documentation: fix linkgit referencesLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
There are a handful of incorrect "linkgit:<page>[<section>]" instances in our documentation set. * Some have an extra colon after "linkgit:"; fix them by removing the extra colon; * Some refer to a page outside the Git suite, namely curl(1); fix them by using the `curl(1)` that already appears on the same page for the same purpose of referring the readers to its manual page. * Some spell the name of the page incorrectly, e.g. "rev-list" when they mean "git-rev-list"; fix them. * Some list the manual section incorrectly; fix them to make sure they match what is at the top of the target of the link. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-05-02Merge branch 'es/format-patch-doc-hide-no-patch' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
"git format-patch --help" showed `-s` and `--no-patch` as if these are valid options to the command. We already hide `--patch` option from the documentation, because format-patch is about showing the diff, and the documentation now hides these options as well. * es/format-patch-doc-hide-no-patch: git-format-patch.txt: don't show -s as shorthand for multiple options
2016-05-02diff: undocument the compaction heuristic knobs for experimentationLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+0
It seems that people around here are all happy with the updated heuristics used to decide where the hunks are separated. Let's keep that as the default. Even though we do not expect too much trouble from the difference between the old and the new algorithms, just in case let's leave the implementation of the knobs to turn it off for emergencies. There is no longer need for documenting them, though. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-19xdiff: implement empty line chunk heuristicLibravatar Stefan Beller1-0/+6
In order to produce the smallest possible diff and combine several diff hunks together, we implement a heuristic from GNU Diff which moves diff hunks forward as far as possible when we find common context above and below a diff hunk. This sometimes produces less readable diffs when writing C, Shell, or other programming languages, ie: ... /* + * + * + */ + +/* ... instead of the more readable equivalent of ... +/* + * + * + */ + /* ... Implement the following heuristic to (optionally) produce the desired output. If there are diff chunks which can be shifted around, shift each hunk such that the last common empty line is below the chunk with the rest of the context above. This heuristic appears to resolve the above example and several other common issues without producing significantly weird results. However, as with any heuristic it is not really known whether this will always be more optimal. Thus, it can be disabled via diff.compactionHeuristic. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-04git-format-patch.txt: don't show -s as shorthand for multiple optionsLibravatar Eric Sunshine1-1/+1
git-format-patch recognizes -s as shorthand only for --signoff, however, its documentation shows -s as shorthand for both --signoff and --no-patch. Resolve this confusion by suppressing the bogus -s shorthand for --no-patch. While here, also avoid showing the --no-patch option in git-format-patch documentation since it doesn't make sense to ask to suppress the patch while at the same time explicitly asking to format the patch (which, after all, is the purpose of git-format-patch). Reported-by: Kevin Brodsky <corax26@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-03-29Documentation: git diff --check detects conflict markersLibravatar Ori Avtalion1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Ori Avtalion <ori@avtalion.name> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-11-24Documentation/diff: give --word-diff-regex=. exampleLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-0/+3
It's just so useful. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2015-06-16Merge branch 'mm/log-format-raw-doc' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+10
Clarify that "log --raw" and "log --format=raw" are unrelated concepts. * mm/log-format-raw-doc: Documentation/log: clarify sha1 non-abbreviation in log --raw Documentation/log: clarify what --raw means
2015-06-11Merge branch 'jc/diff-ws-error-highlight'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+10
Allow whitespace breakages in deleted and context lines to be also painted in the output. * jc/diff-ws-error-highlight: diff.c: --ws-error-highlight=<kind> option diff.c: add emit_del_line() and emit_context_line() t4015: separate common setup and per-test expectation t4015: modernise style
2015-06-05Merge branch 'jk/asciidoc-markup-fix' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+6
Various documentation mark-up fixes to make the output more consistent in general and also make AsciiDoctor (an alternative formatter) happier. * jk/asciidoc-markup-fix: doc: convert AsciiDoc {?foo} to ifdef::foo[] doc: put example URLs and emails inside literal backticks doc: drop backslash quoting of some curly braces doc: convert \--option to --option doc/add: reformat `--edit` option doc: fix length of underlined section-title doc: fix hanging "+"-continuation doc: fix unquoted use of "{type}" doc: fix misrendering due to `single quote'
2015-06-01Merge branch 'mm/log-format-raw-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+10
Clarify that "log --raw" and "log --format=raw" are unrelated concepts. * mm/log-format-raw-doc: Documentation/log: clarify sha1 non-abbreviation in log --raw Documentation/log: clarify what --raw means
2015-05-26diff.c: --ws-error-highlight=<kind> optionLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+10
Traditionally, we only cared about whitespace breakages introduced in new lines. Some people want to paint whitespace breakages on old lines, too. When they see a whitespace breakage on a new line, they can spot the same kind of whitespace breakage on the corresponding old line and want to say "Ah, those breakages are there but they were inherited from the original, so let's not touch them for now." Introduce `--ws-error-highlight=<kind>` option, that lets them pass a comma separated list of `old`, `new`, and `context` to specify what lines to highlight whitespace errors on. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-22Merge branch 'jk/asciidoc-markup-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+6
Various documentation mark-up fixes to make the output more consistent in general and also make AsciiDoctor (an alternative formatter) happier. * jk/asciidoc-markup-fix: doc: convert AsciiDoc {?foo} to ifdef::foo[] doc: put example URLs and emails inside literal backticks doc: drop backslash quoting of some curly braces doc: convert \--option to --option doc/add: reformat `--edit` option doc: fix length of underlined section-title doc: fix hanging "+"-continuation doc: fix unquoted use of "{type}" doc: fix misrendering due to `single quote'
2015-05-18Documentation/log: clarify what --raw meansLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-1/+10
There are several "raw formats", and describing --raw as "Generate the raw format" in the documentation for git-log seems to imply that it generates the raw *log* format. Clarify the wording by saying "raw diff format" explicitly, and make a special-case for "git log": "git log --raw" does not just change the format, it shows something which is not shown by default. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-14doc: convert AsciiDoc {?foo} to ifdef::foo[]Libravatar Jeff King1-2/+6
The former seems to just be syntactic sugar for the latter. And as it's sugar that AsciiDoctor doesn't understand, it would be nice to avoid it. Since there are only two spots, and the resulting source is not significantly harder to read, it's worth doing. Note that this does slightly affect the generated HTML (it has an extra newline), but the rendered result for both HTML and docbook should be the same (since the newline is not syntactically significant there). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-03-13*config.txt: stick to camelCase naming conventionLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-2/+2
This should improve readability. Compare "thislongname" and "thisLongName". The following keys are left in unchanged. We can decide what to do with them later. - am.keepcr - core.autocrlf .safecrlf .trustctime - diff.dirstat .noprefix - gitcvs.usecrlfattr - gui.blamehistoryctx .trustmtime - pull.twohead - receive.autogc - sendemail.signedoffbycc .smtpsslcertpath .suppresscc Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-31Documentation: fix misuses of "nor"Libravatar Justin Lebar1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Justin Lebar <jlebar@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-18diff: add diff.orderfile configuration variableLibravatar Samuel Bronson1-0/+3
diff.orderfile acts as a default for the -O command line option. [sb: split up aw's original patch; rework tests and docs, treat option as pathname] Signed-off-by: Anders Waldenborg <anders@0x63.nu> Signed-off-by: Samuel Bronson <naesten@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>