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2016-09-26Merge branch 'mh/diff-indent-heuristic'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+29
Output from "git diff" can be made easier to read by selecting which lines are common and which lines are added/deleted intelligently when the lines before and after the changed section are the same. A command line option is added to help with the experiment to find a good heuristics. * mh/diff-indent-heuristic: blame: honor the diff heuristic options and config parse-options: add parse_opt_unknown_cb() diff: improve positioning of add/delete blocks in diffs xdl_change_compact(): introduce the concept of a change group recs_match(): take two xrecord_t pointers as arguments is_blank_line(): take a single xrecord_t as argument xdl_change_compact(): only use heuristic if group can't be matched xdl_change_compact(): fix compaction heuristic to adjust ixo
2016-09-19Merge branch 'bc/object-id'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
The "unsigned char sha1[20]" to "struct object_id" conversion continues. Notable changes in this round includes that ce->sha1, i.e. the object name recorded in the cache_entry, turns into an object_id. It had merge conflicts with a few topics in flight (Christian's "apply.c split", Dscho's "cat-file --filters" and Jeff Hostetler's "status --porcelain-v2"). Extra sets of eyes double-checking for mismerges are highly appreciated. * bc/object-id: builtin/reset: convert to use struct object_id builtin/commit-tree: convert to struct object_id builtin/am: convert to struct object_id refs: add an update_ref_oid function. sha1_name: convert get_sha1_mb to struct object_id builtin/update-index: convert file to struct object_id notes: convert init_notes to use struct object_id builtin/rm: convert to use struct object_id builtin/blame: convert file to use struct object_id Convert read_mmblob to take struct object_id. notes-merge: convert struct notes_merge_pair to struct object_id builtin/checkout: convert some static functions to struct object_id streaming: make stream_blob_to_fd take struct object_id builtin: convert textconv_object to use struct object_id builtin/cat-file: convert some static functions to struct object_id builtin/cat-file: convert struct expand_data to use struct object_id builtin/log: convert some static functions to use struct object_id builtin/blame: convert struct origin to use struct object_id builtin/apply: convert static functions to struct object_id cache: convert struct cache_entry to use struct object_id
2016-09-19blame: honor the diff heuristic options and configLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-12/+17
Teach "git blame" and "git annotate" the --compaction-heuristic and --indent-heuristic options that are now supported by "git diff". Also teach them to honor the `diff.compactionHeuristic` and `diff.indentHeuristic` configuration options. It would be conceivable to introduce separate configuration options for "blame" and "annotate"; for example `blame.compactionHeuristic` and `blame.indentHeuristic`. But it would be confusing to users if blame output is inconsistent with diff output, so it makes more sense for them to respect the same configuration. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-19diff: improve positioning of add/delete blocks in diffsLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-3/+20
Some groups of added/deleted lines in diffs can be slid up or down, because lines at the edges of the group are not unique. Picking good shifts for such groups is not a matter of correctness but definitely has a big effect on aesthetics. For example, consider the following two diffs. The first is what standard Git emits: --- a/9c572b21dd090a1e5c5bb397053bf8043ffe7fb4:git-send-email.perl +++ b/6dcfa306f2b67b733a7eb2d7ded1bc9987809edb:git-send-email.perl @@ -231,6 +231,9 @@ if (!defined $initial_reply_to && $prompting) { } if (!$smtp_server) { + $smtp_server = $repo->config('sendemail.smtpserver'); +} +if (!$smtp_server) { foreach (qw( /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail )) { if (-x $_) { $smtp_server = $_; The following diff is equivalent, but is obviously preferable from an aesthetic point of view: --- a/9c572b21dd090a1e5c5bb397053bf8043ffe7fb4:git-send-email.perl +++ b/6dcfa306f2b67b733a7eb2d7ded1bc9987809edb:git-send-email.perl @@ -230,6 +230,9 @@ if (!defined $initial_reply_to && $prompting) { $initial_reply_to =~ s/(^\s+|\s+$)//g; } +if (!$smtp_server) { + $smtp_server = $repo->config('sendemail.smtpserver'); +} if (!$smtp_server) { foreach (qw( /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail )) { if (-x $_) { This patch teaches Git to pick better positions for such "diff sliders" using heuristics that take the positions of nearby blank lines and the indentation of nearby lines into account. The existing Git code basically always shifts such "sliders" as far down in the file as possible. The only exception is when the slider can be aligned with a group of changed lines in the other file, in which case Git favors depicting the change as one add+delete block rather than one add and a slightly offset delete block. This naive algorithm often yields ugly diffs. Commit d634d61ed6 improved the situation somewhat by preferring to position add/delete groups to make their last line a blank line, when that is possible. This heuristic does more good than harm, but (1) it can only help if there are blank lines in the right places, and (2) always picks the last blank line, even if there are others that might be better. The end result is that it makes perhaps 1/3 as many errors as the default Git algorithm, but that still leaves a lot of ugly diffs. This commit implements a new and much better heuristic for picking optimal "slider" positions using the following approach: First observe that each hypothetical positioning of a diff slider introduces two splits: one between the context lines preceding the group and the first added/deleted line, and the other between the last added/deleted line and the first line of context following it. It tries to find the positioning that creates the least bad splits. Splits are evaluated based only on the presence and locations of nearby blank lines, and the indentation of lines near the split. Basically, it prefers to introduce splits adjacent to blank lines, between lines that are indented less, and between lines with the same level of indentation. In more detail: 1. It measures the following characteristics of a proposed splitting position in a `struct split_measurement`: * the number of blank lines above the proposed split * whether the line directly after the split is blank * the number of blank lines following that line * the indentation of the nearest non-blank line above the split * the indentation of the line directly below the split * the indentation of the nearest non-blank line after that line 2. It combines the measured attributes using a bunch of empirically-optimized weighting factors to derive a `struct split_score` that measures the "badness" of splitting the text at that position. 3. It combines the `split_score` for the top and the bottom of the slider at each of its possible positions, and selects the position that has the best `split_score`. I determined the initial set of weighting factors by collecting a corpus of Git histories from 29 open-source software projects in various programming languages. I generated many diffs from this corpus, and determined the best positioning "by eye" for about 6600 diff sliders. I used about half of the repositories in the corpus (corresponding to about 2/3 of the sliders) as a training set, and optimized the weights against this corpus using a crude automated search of the parameter space to get the best agreement with the manually-determined values. Then I tested the resulting heuristic against the full corpus. The results are summarized in the following table, in column `indent-1`: | repository | count | Git 2.9.0 | compaction | compaction-fixed | indent-1 | indent-2 | | --------------------- | ----- | -------------- | -------------- | ---------------- | -------------- | -------------- | | afnetworking | 109 | 89 (81.7%) | 37 (33.9%) | 37 (33.9%) | 2 (1.8%) | 2 (1.8%) | | alamofire | 30 | 18 (60.0%) | 14 (46.7%) | 15 (50.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | | angular | 184 | 127 (69.0%) | 39 (21.2%) | 23 (12.5%) | 5 (2.7%) | 5 (2.7%) | | animate | 313 | 2 (0.6%) | 2 (0.6%) | 2 (0.6%) | 2 (0.6%) | 2 (0.6%) | | ant | 380 | 356 (93.7%) | 152 (40.0%) | 148 (38.9%) | 15 (3.9%) | 15 (3.9%) | * | bugzilla | 306 | 263 (85.9%) | 109 (35.6%) | 99 (32.4%) | 14 (4.6%) | 15 (4.9%) | * | corefx | 126 | 91 (72.2%) | 22 (17.5%) | 21 (16.7%) | 6 (4.8%) | 6 (4.8%) | | couchdb | 78 | 44 (56.4%) | 26 (33.3%) | 28 (35.9%) | 6 (7.7%) | 6 (7.7%) | * | cpython | 937 | 158 (16.9%) | 50 (5.3%) | 49 (5.2%) | 5 (0.5%) | 5 (0.5%) | * | discourse | 160 | 95 (59.4%) | 42 (26.2%) | 36 (22.5%) | 18 (11.2%) | 13 (8.1%) | | docker | 307 | 194 (63.2%) | 198 (64.5%) | 253 (82.4%) | 8 (2.6%) | 8 (2.6%) | * | electron | 163 | 132 (81.0%) | 38 (23.3%) | 39 (23.9%) | 6 (3.7%) | 6 (3.7%) | | git | 536 | 470 (87.7%) | 73 (13.6%) | 78 (14.6%) | 16 (3.0%) | 16 (3.0%) | * | gitflow | 127 | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | | ionic | 133 | 89 (66.9%) | 29 (21.8%) | 38 (28.6%) | 1 (0.8%) | 1 (0.8%) | | ipython | 482 | 362 (75.1%) | 167 (34.6%) | 169 (35.1%) | 11 (2.3%) | 11 (2.3%) | * | junit | 161 | 147 (91.3%) | 67 (41.6%) | 66 (41.0%) | 1 (0.6%) | 1 (0.6%) | * | lighttable | 15 | 5 (33.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | 2 (13.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | | magit | 88 | 75 (85.2%) | 11 (12.5%) | 9 (10.2%) | 1 (1.1%) | 0 (0.0%) | | neural-style | 28 | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | | nodejs | 781 | 649 (83.1%) | 118 (15.1%) | 111 (14.2%) | 4 (0.5%) | 5 (0.6%) | * | phpmyadmin | 491 | 481 (98.0%) | 75 (15.3%) | 48 (9.8%) | 2 (0.4%) | 2 (0.4%) | * | react-native | 168 | 130 (77.4%) | 79 (47.0%) | 81 (48.2%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | | rust | 171 | 128 (74.9%) | 30 (17.5%) | 27 (15.8%) | 16 (9.4%) | 14 (8.2%) | | spark | 186 | 149 (80.1%) | 52 (28.0%) | 52 (28.0%) | 2 (1.1%) | 2 (1.1%) | | tensorflow | 115 | 66 (57.4%) | 48 (41.7%) | 48 (41.7%) | 5 (4.3%) | 5 (4.3%) | | test-more | 19 | 15 (78.9%) | 2 (10.5%) | 2 (10.5%) | 1 (5.3%) | 1 (5.3%) | * | test-unit | 51 | 34 (66.7%) | 14 (27.5%) | 8 (15.7%) | 2 (3.9%) | 2 (3.9%) | * | xmonad | 23 | 22 (95.7%) | 2 (8.7%) | 2 (8.7%) | 1 (4.3%) | 1 (4.3%) | * | --------------------- | ----- | -------------- | -------------- | ---------------- | -------------- | -------------- | | totals | 6668 | 4391 (65.9%) | 1496 (22.4%) | 1491 (22.4%) | 150 (2.2%) | 144 (2.2%) | | totals (training set) | 4552 | 3195 (70.2%) | 1053 (23.1%) | 1061 (23.3%) | 86 (1.9%) | 88 (1.9%) | | totals (test set) | 2116 | 1196 (56.5%) | 443 (20.9%) | 430 (20.3%) | 64 (3.0%) | 56 (2.6%) | In this table, the numbers are the count and percentage of human-rated sliders that the corresponding algorithm got *wrong*. The columns are * "repository" - the name of the repository used. I used the diffs between successive non-merge commits on the HEAD branch of the corresponding repository. * "count" - the number of sliders that were human-rated. I chose most, but not all, sliders to rate from those among which the various algorithms gave different answers. * "Git 2.9.0" - the default algorithm used by `git diff` in Git 2.9.0. * "compaction" - the heuristic used by `git diff --compaction-heuristic` in Git 2.9.0. * "compaction-fixed" - the heuristic used by `git diff --compaction-heuristic` after the fixes from earlier in this patch series. Note that the results are not dramatically different than those for "compaction". Both produce non-ideal diffs only about 1/3 as often as the default `git diff`. * "indent-1" - the new `--indent-heuristic` algorithm, using the first set of weighting factors, determined as described above. * "indent-2" - the new `--indent-heuristic` algorithm, using the final set of weighting factors, determined as described below. * `*` - indicates that repo was part of training set used to determine the first set of weighting factors. The fact that the heuristic performed nearly as well on the test set as on the training set in column "indent-1" is a good indication that the heuristic was not over-trained. Given that fact, I ran a second round of optimization, using the entire corpus as the training set. The resulting set of weights gave the results in column "indent-2". These are the weights included in this patch. The final result gives consistently and significantly better results across the whole corpus than either `git diff` or `git diff --compaction-heuristic`. It makes only about 1/30 as many errors as the former and about 1/10 as many errors as the latter. (And a good fraction of the remaining errors are for diffs that involve weirdly-formatted code, sometimes apparently machine-generated.) The tools that were used to do this optimization and analysis, along with the human-generated data values, are recorded in a separate project [1]. This patch adds a new command-line option `--indent-heuristic`, and a new configuration setting `diff.indentHeuristic`, that activate this heuristic. This interface is only meant for testing purposes, and should be finalized before including this change in any release. [1] https://github.com/mhagger/diff-slider-tools Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-15Merge branch 'sb/diff-cleanup'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-21/+10
Code cleanup. * sb/diff-cleanup: diff: remove dead code diff: omit found pointer from emit_callback diff.c: use diff_options directly
2016-09-12Merge branch 'jk/diff-submodule-diff-inline'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-17/+37
The "git diff --submodule={short,log}" mechanism has been enhanced to allow "--submodule=diff" to show the patch between the submodule commits bound to the superproject. * jk/diff-submodule-diff-inline: diff: teach diff to display submodule difference with an inline diff submodule: refactor show_submodule_summary with helper function submodule: convert show_submodule_summary to use struct object_id * allow do_submodule_path to work even if submodule isn't checked out diff: prepare for additional submodule formats graph: add support for --line-prefix on all graph-aware output diff.c: remove output_prefix_length field cache: add empty_tree_oid object and helper function
2016-09-08diff: remove dead codeLibravatar Stefan Beller1-8/+0
When `len < 1`, len has to be 0 or negative, emit_line will then remove the first character and by then `len` would be negative. As this doesn't happen, it is safe to assume it is dead code. This continues to simplify the code, which was started in b8d9c1a66b (2009-09-03, diff.c: the builtin_diff() deals with only two-file comparison). Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-08diff: omit found pointer from emit_callbackLibravatar Stefan Beller1-4/+2
We keep the actual data in the diff options, which are just as accessible. Remove the pointer stored in struct emit_callback for readability. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-08diff.c: use diff_options directlyLibravatar Stefan Beller1-11/+10
The value of `ecbdata->opt` is accessible via the short variable `o` already, so let's use that instead. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-07cache: convert struct cache_entry to use struct object_idLibravatar brian m. carlson1-1/+1
Convert struct cache_entry to use struct object_id by applying the following semantic patch and the object_id transforms from contrib, plus the actual change to the struct: @@ struct cache_entry E1; @@ - E1.sha1 + E1.oid.hash @@ struct cache_entry *E1; @@ - E1->sha1 + E1->oid.hash Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-31diff: teach diff to display submodule difference with an inline diffLibravatar Jacob Keller1-9/+22
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>
2016-08-31submodule: convert show_submodule_summary to use struct object_id *Libravatar Jacob Keller1-1/+1
Since we're going to be changing this function in a future patch, lets go ahead and convert this to use object_id now. Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-31diff: prepare for additional submodule formatsLibravatar Jacob Keller1-6/+6
A future patch will add a new format for displaying the difference of a submodule. Make it easier by changing how we store the current selected format. Replace the DIFF_OPT flag with an enumeration, as each format will be mutually exclusive. 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/+7
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>
2016-08-31diff.c: remove output_prefix_length fieldLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
"diff/log --stat" has a logic that determines the display columns available for the diffstat part of the output and apportions it for pathnames and diffstat graph automatically. 5e71a84a (Add output_prefix_length to diff_options, 2012-04-16) added the output_prefix_length field to diff_options structure to allow this logic to subtract the display columns used for the history graph part from the total "terminal width"; this matters when the "git log --graph -p" option is in use. The field must be set to the number of display columns needed to show the output from the output_prefix() callback, which is error prone. As there is only one user of the field, and the user has the actual value of the prefix string, let's get rid of the field and have the user count the display width itself. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-12Merge branch 'kw/patch-ids-optim'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+10
When "git rebase" tries to compare set of changes on the updated upstream and our own branch, it computes patch-id for all of these changes and attempts to find matches. This has been optimized by lazily computing the full patch-id (which is expensive) to be compared only for changes that touch the same set of paths. * kw/patch-ids-optim: rebase: avoid computing unnecessary patch IDs patch-ids: add flag to create the diff patch id using header only data patch-ids: replace the seen indicator with a commit pointer patch-ids: stop using a hand-rolled hashmap implementation
2016-08-03Merge branch 'jk/diff-do-not-reuse-wtf-needs-cleaning'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+7
There is an optimization used in "git diff $treeA $treeB" to borrow an already checked-out copy in the working tree when it is known to be the same as the blob being compared, expecting that open/mmap of such a file is faster than reading it from the object store, which involves inflating and applying delta. This however kicked in even when the checked-out copy needs to go through the convert-to-git conversion (including the clean filter), which defeats the whole point of the optimization. The optimization has been disabled when the conversion is necessary. * jk/diff-do-not-reuse-wtf-needs-cleaning: diff: do not reuse worktree files that need "clean" conversion
2016-07-29patch-ids: add flag to create the diff patch id using header only dataLibravatar Kevin Willford1-6/+10
This will allow a diff patch id to be created using only the header data so that the contents of the file will not have to be loaded. Signed-off-by: Kevin Willford <kcwillford@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-22diff: do not reuse worktree files that need "clean" conversionLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+7
When accessing a blob for a diff, we may try to reuse file contents in the working tree, under the theory that it is faster to mmap those file contents than it would be to extract the content from the object database. When we have to filter those contents, though, that assumption does not hold. Even for our internal conversions like CRLF, we have to allocate and fill a new buffer anyway. But much worse, for external clean filters we have to exec an arbitrary script, and we have no idea how expensive it may be to run. So let's skip this optimization when conversion into git's "clean" form is required. This applies whenever the "want_file" flag is false. When it's true, the caller actually wants the smudged worktree contents, which the reused file by definition already has (in fact, this is a key optimization going the other direction, since reusing the worktree file there lets us skip smudge filters). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-19Merge branch 'bc/cocci'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-46/+53
Conversion from unsigned char sha1[20] to struct object_id continues. * bc/cocci: diff: convert prep_temp_blob() to struct object_id merge-recursive: convert merge_recursive_generic() to object_id merge-recursive: convert leaf functions to use struct object_id merge-recursive: convert struct merge_file_info to object_id merge-recursive: convert struct stage_data to use object_id diff: rename struct diff_filespec's sha1_valid member diff: convert struct diff_filespec to struct object_id coccinelle: apply object_id Coccinelle transformations coccinelle: convert hashcpy() with null_sha1 to hashclr() contrib/coccinelle: add basic Coccinelle transforms hex: add oid_to_hex_r()
2016-06-28diff: convert prep_temp_blob() to struct object_idLibravatar brian m. carlson1-4/+4
All of the callers of this function use struct object_id, so convert it to use struct object_id in its arguments and internally. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28diff: rename struct diff_filespec's sha1_valid memberLibravatar brian m. carlson1-14/+14
Now that this struct's sha1 member is called "oid", update the comment and the sha1_valid member to be called "oid_valid" instead. The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used to implement this, followed by the transformations in object_id.cocci: @@ struct diff_filespec o; @@ - o.sha1_valid + o.oid_valid @@ struct diff_filespec *p; @@ - p->sha1_valid + p->oid_valid Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28diff: convert struct diff_filespec to struct object_idLibravatar brian m. carlson1-31/+38
Convert struct diff_filespec's sha1 member to use a struct object_id called "oid" instead. The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used to implement this, followed by the transformations in object_id.cocci: @@ struct diff_filespec o; @@ - o.sha1 + o.oid.hash @@ struct diff_filespec *p; @@ - p->sha1 + p->oid.hash Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28coccinelle: convert hashcpy() with null_sha1 to hashclr()Libravatar brian m. carlson1-1/+1
hashcpy with null_sha1 as the source is equivalent to hashclr. In addition to being simpler, using hashclr may give the compiler a chance to optimize better. Convert instances of hashcpy with the source argument of null_sha1 to hashclr. This transformation was implemented using the following semantic patch: @@ expression E1; @@ -hashcpy(E1, null_sha1); +hashclr(E1); Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28diff: do not color output when --color=auto and --output=<file> is givenLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+2
"git diff --output=<file> --color=auto" used to show the ANSI color sequence in the resulting file when the standard output is connected to a terminal, because --color=auto check always checks the standard output, not the actual file that receives the output. We could correct this by using freopen(3) to redirect the standard output to the specified file, which is in like with how format-patch used to match the world order, but following the same reasoning as the earlier "format-patch: explicitly switch off color when writing to files", let's be more strict by bypassing the "auto" check when the --output=<file> option is in use. Strictly speaking, this is a backwards-incompatible change, but it is highly unlikely that any user would want to see ANSI color sequences in a file. The reason this was not caught earlier is most likely that either --output=<file> is not used, or only when stdout is redirected anyway. Users can still give --color=always if they want a colored diff in the resulting file. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-10Merge branch 'jk/diff-compact-heuristic'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
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 Hamano1-1/+1
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>
2016-05-06Merge branch 'jk/diff-compact-heuristic'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+11
Patch output from "git diff" and friends has been tweaked to be more readable by using a blank line as a strong hint that the contents before and after it belong to a logically separate unit. * jk/diff-compact-heuristic: diff: undocument the compaction heuristic knobs for experimentation xdiff: implement empty line chunk heuristic xdiff: add recs_match helper function
2016-04-19xdiff: implement empty line chunk heuristicLibravatar Stefan Beller1-0/+11
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>
2016-04-03Merge branch 'mm/diff-renames-default'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
The end-user facing Porcelain level commands like "diff" and "log" now enables the rename detection by default. * mm/diff-renames-default: diff: activate diff.renames by default log: introduce init_log_defaults() t: add tests for diff.renames (true/false/unset) t4001-diff-rename: wrap file creations in a test Documentation/diff-config: fix description of diff.renames
2016-02-26Merge branch 'jk/tighten-alloc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-13/+10
Update various codepaths to avoid manually-counted malloc(). * jk/tighten-alloc: (22 commits) ewah: convert to REALLOC_ARRAY, etc convert ewah/bitmap code to use xmalloc diff_populate_gitlink: use a strbuf transport_anonymize_url: use xstrfmt git-compat-util: drop mempcpy compat code sequencer: simplify memory allocation of get_message test-path-utils: fix normalize_path_copy output buffer size fetch-pack: simplify add_sought_entry fast-import: simplify allocation in start_packfile write_untracked_extension: use FLEX_ALLOC helper prepare_{git,shell}_cmd: use argv_array use st_add and st_mult for allocation size computation convert trivial cases to FLEX_ARRAY macros use xmallocz to avoid size arithmetic convert trivial cases to ALLOC_ARRAY convert manual allocations to argv_array argv-array: add detach function add helpers for allocating flex-array structs harden REALLOC_ARRAY and xcalloc against size_t overflow tree-diff: catch integer overflow in combine_diff_path allocation ...
2016-02-26Merge branch 'jk/more-comments-on-textconv'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+4
The memory ownership rule of fill_textconv() API, which was a bit tricky, has been documented a bit better. * jk/more-comments-on-textconv: diff: clarify textconv interface
2016-02-25diff: activate diff.renames by defaultLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-0/+5
Rename detection is a very convenient feature, and new users shouldn't have to dig in the documentation to benefit from it. Potential objections to activating rename detection are that it sometimes fail, and it is sometimes slow. But rename detection is already activated by default in several cases like "git status" and "git merge", so activating diff.renames does not fundamentally change the situation. When the rename detection fails, it now fails consistently between "git diff" and "git status". This setting does not affect plumbing commands, hence well-written scripts will not be affected. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-22diff_populate_gitlink: use a strbufLibravatar Jeff King1-8/+8
We allocate 100 bytes to hold the "Submodule commit ..." text. This is enough, but it's not immediately obvious that this is the case, and we have to repeat the magic 100 twice. We could get away with xstrfmt here, but we want to know the size, as well, so let's use a real strbuf. And while we're here, we can clean up the logic around size_only. It currently sets and clears the "data" field pointlessly, and leaves the "should_free" flag on even after we have cleared the data. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-22convert trivial cases to FLEX_ARRAY macrosLibravatar Jeff King1-5/+2
Using FLEX_ARRAY macros reduces the amount of manual computation size we have to do. It also ensures we don't overflow size_t, and it makes sure we write the same number of bytes that we allocated. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-22diff: clarify textconv interfaceLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+4
The memory allocation scheme for the textconv interface is a bit tricky, and not well documented. It was originally designed as an internal part of diff.c (matching fill_mmfile), but gradually was made public. Refactoring it is difficult, but we can at least improve the situation by documenting the intended flow and enforcing it with an in-code assertion. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-05Merge branch 'nd/diff-with-path-params' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+10
A few options of "git diff" did not work well when the command was run from a subdirectory. * nd/diff-with-path-params: diff: make -O and --output work in subdirectory diff-no-index: do not take a redundant prefix argument
2016-02-03Merge branch 'nd/diff-with-path-params'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+10
A few options of "git diff" did not work well when the command was run from a subdirectory. * nd/diff-with-path-params: diff: make -O and --output work in subdirectory diff-no-index: do not take a redundant prefix argument
2016-01-21diff: make -O and --output work in subdirectoryLibravatar Duy Nguyen1-4/+10
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-29Merge branch 'tk/sigchain-unnecessary-post-tempfile'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+0
Remove no-longer used #include. * tk/sigchain-unnecessary-post-tempfile: shallow: remove unused #include "sigchain.h" read-cache: remove unused #include "sigchain.h" diff: remove unused #include "sigchain.h" credential-cache--daemon: remove unused #include "sigchain.h"
2015-10-22diff: remove unused #include "sigchain.h"Libravatar Tobias Klauser1-1/+0
After switching to use the tempfile module in commit 284098f1 (diff: use tempfile module), no declarations from sigchain.h are used in diff.c anymore. Thus, remove the #include. Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-20Merge branch 'jk/war-on-sprintf'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-11/+10
Many allocations that is manually counted (correctly) that are followed by strcpy/sprintf have been replaced with a less error prone constructs such as xstrfmt. Macintosh-specific breakage was noticed and corrected in this reroll. * jk/war-on-sprintf: (70 commits) name-rev: use strip_suffix to avoid magic numbers use strbuf_complete to conditionally append slash fsck: use for_each_loose_file_in_objdir Makefile: drop D_INO_IN_DIRENT build knob fsck: drop inode-sorting code convert strncpy to memcpy notes: document length of fanout path with a constant color: add color_set helper for copying raw colors prefer memcpy to strcpy help: clean up kfmclient munging receive-pack: simplify keep_arg computation avoid sprintf and strcpy with flex arrays use alloc_ref rather than hand-allocating "struct ref" color: add overflow checks for parsing colors drop strcpy in favor of raw sha1_to_hex use sha1_to_hex_r() instead of strcpy daemon: use cld->env_array when re-spawning stat_tracking_info: convert to argv_array http-push: use an argv_array for setup_revisions fetch-pack: use argv_array for index-pack / unpack-objects ...
2015-10-05use sha1_to_hex_r() instead of strcpyLibravatar Jeff King1-5/+4
Before sha1_to_hex_r() existed, a simple way to get hex sha1 into a buffer was with: strcpy(buf, sha1_to_hex(sha1)); This isn't wrong (assuming the buf is 41 characters), but it makes auditing the code base for bad strcpy() calls harder, as these become false positives. Let's convert them to sha1_to_hex_r(), and likewise for some calls to find_unique_abbrev(). While we're here, we'll double-check that all of the buffers are correctly sized, and use the more obvious GIT_SHA1_HEXSZ constant. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-28Sync with v2.5.4Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-10/+16
2015-09-28Sync with 2.4.10Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-10/+16
2015-09-28Sync with 2.3.10Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-10/+16
2015-09-28react to errors in xdi_diffLibravatar Jeff King1-10/+16
When we call into xdiff to perform a diff, we generally lose the return code completely. Typically by ignoring the return of our xdi_diff wrapper, but sometimes we even propagate that return value up and then ignore it later. This can lead to us silently producing incorrect diffs (e.g., "git log" might produce no output at all, not even a diff header, for a content-level diff). In practice this does not happen very often, because the typical reason for xdiff to report failure is that it malloc() failed (it uses straight malloc, and not our xmalloc wrapper). But it could also happen when xdiff triggers one our callbacks, which returns an error (e.g., outf() in builtin/rerere.c tries to report a write failure in this way). And the next patch also plans to add more failure modes. Let's notice an error return from xdiff and react appropriately. In most of the diff.c code, we can simply die(), which matches the surrounding code (e.g., that is what we do if we fail to load a file for diffing in the first place). This is not that elegant, but we are probably better off dying to let the user know there was a problem, rather than simply generating bogus output. We could also just die() directly in xdi_diff, but the callers typically have a bit more context, and can provide a better message (and if we do later decide to pass errors up, we're one step closer to doing so). There is one interesting case, which is in diff_grep(). Here if we cannot generate the diff, there is nothing to match, and we silently return "no hits". This is actually what the existing code does already, but we make it a little more explicit. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-25convert trivial sprintf / strcpy calls to xsnprintfLibravatar Jeff King1-6/+6
We sometimes sprintf into fixed-size buffers when we know that the buffer is large enough to fit the input (either because it's a constant, or because it's numeric input that is bounded in size). Likewise with strcpy of constant strings. However, these sites make it hard to audit sprintf and strcpy calls for buffer overflows, as a reader has to cross-reference the size of the array with the input. Let's use xsnprintf instead, which communicates to a reader that we don't expect this to overflow (and catches the mistake in case we do). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-31Merge branch 'hv/submodule-config'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
The gitmodules API accessed from the C code learned to cache stuff lazily. * hv/submodule-config: submodule: allow erroneous values for the fetchRecurseSubmodules option submodule: use new config API for worktree configurations submodule: extract functions for config set and lookup submodule: implement a config API for lookup of .gitmodules values
2015-08-25Merge branch 'mh/tempfile'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-23/+23
The "lockfile" API has been rebuilt on top of a new "tempfile" API. * mh/tempfile: credential-cache--daemon: use tempfile module credential-cache--daemon: delete socket from main() gc: use tempfile module to handle gc.pid file lock_repo_for_gc(): compute the path to "gc.pid" only once diff: use tempfile module setup_temporary_shallow(): use tempfile module write_shared_index(): use tempfile module register_tempfile(): new function to handle an existing temporary file tempfile: add several functions for creating temporary files prepare_tempfile_object(): new function, extracted from create_tempfile() tempfile: a new module for handling temporary files commit_lock_file(): use get_locked_file_path() lockfile: add accessor get_lock_file_path() lockfile: add accessors get_lock_file_fd() and get_lock_file_fp() create_bundle(): duplicate file descriptor to avoid closing it twice lockfile: move documentation to lockfile.h and lockfile.c