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2018-03-21diff-highlight: detect --graph by indentLibravatar Jeff King1-15/+63
This patch fixes a corner case where diff-highlight may scramble some diffs when combined with --graph. Commit 7e4ffb4c17 (diff-highlight: add support for --graph output, 2016-08-29) taught diff-highlight to skip past the graph characters at the start of each line with this regex: ($COLOR?\|$COLOR?\s+)* I.e., any series of pipes separated by and followed by arbitrary whitespace. We need to match more than just a single space because the commit in question may be indented to accommodate other parts of the graph drawing. E.g.: * commit 1234abcd | ... | diff --git ... has only a single space, but for the last commit before a fork: | | | | * | commit 1234abcd | |/ ... | | diff --git the diff lines have more spaces between the pipes and the start of the diff. However, when we soak up all of those spaces with the $GRAPH regex, we may accidentally include the leading space for a context line. That means we may consider the actual contents of a context line as part of the diff syntax. In other words, something like this: normal context line -old line +new line -this is a context line with a leading dash would cause us to see that final context line as a removal line, and we'd end up showing the hunk in the wrong order: normal context line -old line -this is a context line with a leading dash +new line Instead, let's a be a little more clever about parsing the graph. We'll look for the actual "*" line that marks the start of a commit, and record the indentation we see there. Then we can skip past that indentation when checking whether the line is a hunk header, removal, addition, etc. There is one tricky thing: the indentation in bytes may be different for various lines of the graph due to coloring. E.g., the "*" on a commit line is generally shown without color, but on the actual diff lines, it will be replaced with a colorized "|" character, adding several bytes. We work around this here by counting "visible" bytes. This is unfortunately a bit more expensive, making us about twice as slow to handle --graph output. But since this is meant to be used interactively anyway, it's tolerably fast (and the non-graph case is unaffected). One alternative would be to search for hunk header lines and use their indentation (since they'd have the same colors as the diff lines which follow). But that just opens up different corner cases. If we see: | | @@ 1,2 1,3 @@ we cannot know if this is a real diff that has been indented due to the graph, or if it's a context line that happens to look like a diff header. We can only be sure of the indent on the "*" lines, since we know those don't contain arbitrary data (technically the user could include a bunch of extra indentation via --format, but that's rare enough to disregard). Reported-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-03-21diff-highlight: use flush() helper consistentlyLibravatar Jeff King1-4/+3
The current flush() helper only shows the queued diff but does not clear the queue. This is conceptually a bug, but it works because we only call it once at the end of the program. Let's teach it to clear the queue, which will let us use it in more places (one for now, but more in future patches). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-15diff-highlight: split code into moduleLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+233
The diff-so-fancy project is also written in perl, and most of its users pipe diffs through both diff-highlight and diff-so-fancy. It would be nice if this could be done in a single script. So let's pull most of diff-highlight's code into its own module which can be used by diff-so-fancy. In addition, we'll abstract a few basic items like reading from stdio so that a script using the module can do more processing before or after diff-highlight handles the lines. See the README update for more details. One small downside is that the diff-highlight script must now be built using the Makefile. There are ways around this, but it quickly gets into perl arcana. Let's go with the simple solution. As a bonus, our Makefile now respects the PERL_PATH variable if it is set. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>