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2008-08-30merge.conflictstyle: choose between "merge" and "diff3 -m" stylesLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
This teaches "git merge-file" to honor merge.conflictstyle configuration variable, whose value can be "merge" (default) or "diff3". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-30xmerge.c: "diff3 -m" style clips merge reduction level to EAGER or lessLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+1
When showing a conflicting merge result, and "--diff3 -m" style is asked for, this patch makes sure that the merge reduction level does not exceed XDL_MERGE_EAGER. This is because "diff3 -m" style output would not make sense for anything more aggressive than XDL_MERGE_EAGER, because of the way how the merge reduction works. "git merge-file" no longer has to force MERGE_EAGER when "--diff3" is asked for because of this change. Suppose a common ancestor (shared preimage) is modified to postimage #1 and #2 (each letter represents one line): ##### postimage#1: 1234ABCDE789 | / | / preimage: 123456789 | \ postimage#2: 1234AXYE789 #### XDL_MERGE_MINIMAL and XDL_MERGE_EAGER would: (1) find the s/56/ABCDE/ done on one side and s/56/AXYE/ done on the other side, (2) notice that they touch an overlapping area, and (3) mark it as a conflict, "ABCDE vs AXYE". The difference between the two algorithms is that EAGER drops the hunk altogether if the postimages match (i.e. both sides modified the same way), while MINIMAL keeps it. There is no other operation performed to the hunk. As the result, lines marked with "#" in the above picure will be in the RCS merge style output like this (letters <, = and > represent conflict marker lines): output: 1234<ABCDE=AXYE>789 ; with MINIMAL/EAGER The part from the preimage that corresponds to these conflicting changes is "56", which is what "diff3 -m" style output adds to it: output: 1234<ABCDE|56=AXYE>789 ; in "diff3 -m" style Now, XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS looks at the differences between the changes two postimages made in order to reduce the number of lines in the conflicting regions. It notices that both sides start their new contents with "A", and excludes it from the output (it also excludes "E" for the same reason). The conflict that used to be "ABCDE vs AXYE" is now "BCD vs XY": output: 1234A<BCD=XY>E789 ; with ZEALOUS There could even be matching parts between two postimages in the middle. Instead of one side rewriting the shared "56" to "ABCDE" and the other side to "AXYE", imagine the case where the postimages are "ABCDE" and "AXCYE", in which case instead of having one conflicted hunk "BCD vs XY", you would have two conflicting hunks "B vs X" and "D vs Y". In either case, once you reduce "ABCDE vs AXYE" to "BCD vs XY" (or "ABCDE vs AXCYE" to "B vs X" and "D vs Y"), there is no part from the preimage that corresponds to the conflicting change made in both postimages anymore. In other words, conflict reduced by ZEALOUS algorithm cannot be expressed in "diff3 -m" style. Representing the last illustration like this is misleading to say the least: output: 1234A<BCD|56=XY>E789 ; broken "diff3 -m" style because the preimage was not ...4A56E... to begin with. "A" and "E" are common only between the postimages. Even worse, once a single conflicting hunk is split into multiple ones (recall the example of breaking "ABCDE vs AXCYE" to "B vs X" and "D vs Y"), there is no sane way to distribute the preimage text across split conflicting hunks. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-30xdiff-merge: optionally show conflicts in "diff3 -m" styleLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+8
When showing conflicting merges, we traditionally followed RCS's merge output format. The output shows: <<<<<<< postimage from one side; ======= postimage of the other side; and >>>>>>> Some poeple find it easier to be able to understand what is going on when they can view the common ancestor's version, which is used by "diff3 -m", which shows: <<<<<<< postimage from one side; ||||||| shared preimage; ======= postimage of the other side; and >>>>>>> This is an initial step to bring that as an optional feature to git. Only "git merge-file" has been converted, with "--diff3" option. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-14Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
* maint: merge-file: handle empty files gracefully merge-recursive: handle file mode changes Minor wording changes in the keyboard descriptions in git-add --interactive. git fetch: Take '-n' to mean '--no-tags' quiltimport: fix misquoting of parsed -p<num> parameter git-quiltimport: better parser to grok "enhanced" series files.
2008-03-13merge-file: handle empty files gracefullyLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-1/+2
Earlier, it would error out while trying to read and/or writing them. Now, calling merge-file with empty files is neither interesting nor useful, but it is a bug that needed fixing. Noticed by Clemens Buchacher. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2008-02-18xdl_merge(): introduce XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS_ALNUMLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-1/+1
When a merge conflicts, there are often common lines that are not really common, such as empty lines or lines containing a single curly bracket. With XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS_ALNUM, we use the following heuristics: when a hunk does not contain any letters or digits, it is treated as conflicting. In other words, a conflict which used to look like this: <<<<<<< a = 1; ======= output(); >>>>>>> } } } <<<<<<< output(); ======= b = 1; >>>>>>> will look like this with ZEALOUS_ALNUM: <<<<<<< a = 1; } } } output(); ======= output(); } } } b = 1; >>>>>>> To demonstrate this, git-merge-file has been switched from XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS to XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS_ALNUM. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-14Make every builtin-*.c file #include "builtin.h"Libravatar Peter Hagervall1-3/+4
Make every builtin-*.c file #include "builtin.h". Also takes care of some declaration/definition mismatches. Signed-off-by: Peter Hagervall <hager@cs.umu.se> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-04git-merge-file: refuse to merge binary filesLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-1/+5
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2006-12-21move read_mmfile() into xdiff-interfaceLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-18/+2
read_file() was a useful function if you want to work with the xdiff stuff, so it was renamed and put into a more central place. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-06merge-file: support -p and -q; fix compile warningsLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-9/+16
Now merge-file also understands --stdout and --quiet options. While at it, two compile warnings were fixed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-06Add builtin merge-file, a minimal replacement for RCS mergeLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+72
merge-file has the same syntax as RCS merge, but supports only the "-L" option. For good measure, a test is added, which is quite minimal, though. [jc: further fix for compliation errors included.] Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>