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2009-04-11Allow users to un-configure rename detectionLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-7/+10
I told people on the kernel mailing list to please use "-M" when sending me rename patches, so that I can see what they do while reading email rather than having to apply the patch and then look at the end result. I also told them that if they want to make it the default, they can just add [diff] renames to their ~/.gitconfig file. And while I was thinking about that, I wanted to also check whether you can then mark individual projects to _not_ have that default in the per-repository .git/config file. And you can't. Currently you cannot have a global "enable renames by default" and then a local ".. but not for _this_ project". Why? Because if somebody writes [diff] renames = no we simply ignore it, rather than resetting "diff_detect_rename_default" back to zero. Fixed thusly. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-28Merge branch 'jc/maint-1.6.0-diff-borrow-carefully'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+9
* jc/maint-1.6.0-diff-borrow-carefully: diff --cached: do not borrow from a work tree when a path is marked as assume-unchanged
2009-03-26Merge branch 'js/maint-diff-temp-smudge'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+10
* js/maint-diff-temp-smudge: Smudge the files fed to external diff and textconv
2009-03-22diff --cached: do not borrow from a work tree when a path is marked as ↵Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+9
assume-unchanged When the index says that the file in the work tree that corresponds to the blob object that is used for comparison is known to be unchanged, "diff" reads from the file and applies convert_to_git(), instead of inflating the object, to feed the internal diff engine with, because an earlier benchnark found that it tends to be faster to use this optimization. However, the index can lie when the path is marked as assume-unchanged. Disable the optimization for such paths. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-22Smudge the files fed to external diff and textconvLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-3/+10
When preparing temporary files for an external diff or textconv, it is easier on the external tools, especially when they are implemented using platform tools, if they are fed the input after convert_to_working_tree(). This fixes msysGit issue 177. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-11Merge branch 'jc/maint-1.6.0-keep-pack'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* jc/maint-1.6.0-keep-pack: is_kept_pack(): final clean-up Simplify is_kept_pack() Consolidate ignore_packed logic more has_sha1_kept_pack(): take "struct rev_info" has_sha1_pack(): refactor "pretend these packs do not exist" interface git-repack: resist stray environment variable
2009-03-07Remove unused function scope local variablesLibravatar Benjamin Kramer1-3/+1
These variables were unused and can be removed safely: builtin-clone.c::cmd_clone(): use_local_hardlinks, use_separate_remote builtin-fetch-pack.c::find_common(): len builtin-remote.c::mv(): symref diff.c::show_stats():show_stats(): total diffcore-break.c::should_break(): base_size fast-import.c::validate_raw_date(): date, sign fsck.c::fsck_tree(): o_sha1, sha1 xdiff-interface.c::parse_num(): read_some Signed-off-by: Benjamin Kramer <benny.kra@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-05Merge branch 'al/ansi-color'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-8/+8
* al/ansi-color: builtin-branch.c: Rename branch category color names Clean up use of ANSI color sequences
2009-03-04Use DIFF_XDL_SET/DIFF_OPT_SET instead of raw bit-maskingLibravatar Keith Cascio1-7/+10
Signed-off-by: Keith Cascio <keith@cs.ucla.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-28has_sha1_pack(): refactor "pretend these packs do not exist" interfaceLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Most of the callers of this function except only one pass NULL to its last parameter, ignore_packed. Introduce has_sha1_kept_pack() function that has the function signature and the semantics of this function, and convert the sole caller that does not pass NULL to call this new function. All other callers and has_sha1_pack() lose the ignore_packed parameter. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-13Remove redundant bit clears from diff_setup()Libravatar Keith Cascio1-3/+0
All bits already clear after memset(0). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-13Clean up use of ANSI color sequencesLibravatar Arjen Laarhoven1-8/+8
Remove the literal ANSI escape sequences and replace them by readable constants. Signed-off-by: Arjen Laarhoven <arjen@yaph.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-12Bugfix: GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF with more than one changed filesLibravatar Nazri Ramliy1-4/+4
When there is more than one file that are changed, running git diff with GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF incorrectly diagnoses an programming error and dies. The check introduced in 479b0ae (diff: refactor tempfile cleanup handling, 2009-01-22) to detect a temporary file slot that forgot to remove its temporary file was inconsistent with the way the codepath to remove the temporary to mark the slot that it is done with it. This patch fixes this problem and adds a test case for it. Signed-off-by: Nazri Ramliy <ayiehere@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-31Merge branch 'jc/maint-split-diff-metainfo'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-66/+80
* jc/maint-split-diff-metainfo: diff.c: output correct index lines for a split diff
2009-01-31Merge branch 'jk/signal-cleanup'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-52/+56
* jk/signal-cleanup: t0005: use SIGTERM for sigchain test pager: do wait_for_pager on signal death refactor signal handling for cleanup functions chain kill signals for cleanup functions diff: refactor tempfile cleanup handling Windows: Fix signal numbers
2009-01-27Merge branch 'jc/maint-1.6.0-split-diff-metainfo' into ↵Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-66/+80
jc/maint-split-diff-metainfo This is an evil merge, as a test added since 1.6.0 expects an incorrect behaviour the merged commit fixes. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-27diff.c: output correct index lines for a split diffLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-66/+80
A patch that changes the filetype (e.g. regular file to symlink) of a path must be split into a deletion event followed by a creation event, which means that we need to have two independent metainfo lines for each. However, the code reused the single set of metainfo lines. As the blob object names recorded on the index lines are usually not used nor validated on the receiving end, this is not an issue with normal use of the resulting patch. However, when accepting a binary patch to delete a blob, git-apply verified that the postimage blob object name on the index line is 0{40}, hence a patch that deletes a regular file blob that records binary contents to create a blob with different filetype (e.g. a symbolic link) failed to apply. "git am -3" also uses the blob object names recorded on the index line, so it would also misbehave when synthesizing a preimage tree. This moves the code to generate metainfo lines around, so that two independent sets of metainfo lines are used for the split halves. Additional tests by Jeff King. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-25Merge branch 'js/diff-color-words'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-70/+155
* js/diff-color-words: Change the spelling of "wordregex". color-words: Support diff.wordregex config option color-words: make regex configurable via attributes color-words: expand docs with precise semantics color-words: enable REG_NEWLINE to help user color-words: take an optional regular expression describing words color-words: change algorithm to allow for 0-character word boundaries color-words: refactor word splitting and use ALLOC_GROW() Add color_fwrite_lines(), a function coloring each line individually
2009-01-23Merge branch 'js/patience-diff'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
* js/patience-diff: bash completions: Add the --patience option Introduce the diff option '--patience' Implement the patience diff algorithm Conflicts: contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
2009-01-21refactor signal handling for cleanup functionsLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
The current code is very inconsistent about which signals are caught for doing cleanup of temporary files and lock files. Some callsites checked only SIGINT, while others checked a variety of death-dealing signals. This patch factors out those signals to a single function, and then calls it everywhere. For some sites, that means this is a simple clean up. For others, it is an improvement in that they will now properly clean themselves up after a larger variety of signals. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-21chain kill signals for cleanup functionsLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+3
If a piece of code wanted to do some cleanup before exiting (e.g., cleaning up a lockfile or a tempfile), our usual strategy was to install a signal handler that did something like this: do_cleanup(); /* actual work */ signal(signo, SIG_DFL); /* restore previous behavior */ raise(signo); /* deliver signal, killing ourselves */ For a single handler, this works fine. However, if we want to clean up two _different_ things, we run into a problem. The most recently installed handler will run, but when it removes itself as a handler, it doesn't put back the first handler. This patch introduces sigchain, a tiny library for handling a stack of signal handlers. You sigchain_push each handler, and use sigchain_pop to restore whoever was before you in the stack. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-21diff: refactor tempfile cleanup handlingLibravatar Jeff King1-52/+55
There are two pieces of code that create tempfiles for diff: run_external_diff and run_textconv. The former cleans up its tempfiles in the face of premature death (i.e., by die() or by signal), but the latter does not. After this patch, they will both use the same cleanup routines. To make clear what the change is, let me first explain what happens now: - run_external_diff uses a static global array of 2 diff_tempfile structs (since it knows it will always need exactly 2 tempfiles). It calls prepare_temp_file (which doesn't know anything about the global array) on each of the structs, creating the tempfiles that need to be cleaned up. It then registers atexit and signal handlers to look through the global array and remove the tempfiles. If it succeeds, it calls the handler manually (which marks the tempfile structs as unused). - textconv has its own tempfile struct, which it allocates using prepare_temp_file and cleans up manually. No signal or atexit handlers. The new code moves the installation of cleanup handlers into the prepare_temp_file function. Which means that that function now has to understand that there is static tempfile storage. So what happens now is: - run_external_diff calls prepare_temp_file - prepare_temp_file calls claim_diff_tempfile, which allocates an unused slot from our global array - prepare_temp_file installs (if they have not already been installed) atexit and signal handlers for cleanup - prepare_temp_file sets up the tempfile as usual - prepare_temp_file returns a pointer to the allocated tempfile The advantage being that run_external_diff no longer has to care about setting up cleanup handlers. Now by virtue of calling prepare_temp_file, run_textconv gets the same benefit, as will any future users of prepare_temp_file. There are also a few side benefits to the specific implementation: - we now install cleanup handlers _before_ allocating the tempfile, closing a race which could leave temp cruft - when allocating a slot in the global array, we will now detect a situation where the old slots were not properly vacated (i.e., somebody forgot to call remove upon leaving the function). In the old code, such a situation would silently overwrite the tempfile names, meaning we would forget to clean them up. The new code dies with a bug warning. - we make sure only to install the signal handler once. This isn't a big deal, since we are just overwriting the old handler, but will become an issue when a later patch converts the code to use sigchain Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-21Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+3
* maint: Rename diff.suppress-blank-empty to diff.suppressBlankEmpty
2009-01-21color-words: Support diff.wordregex config optionLibravatar Boyd Stephen Smith Jr1-0/+5
When diff is invoked with --color-words (w/o =regex), use the regular expression the user has configured as diff.wordregex. diff drivers configured via attributes take precedence over the diff.wordregex-words setting. If the user wants to change them, they have their own configuration variables. Signed-off-by: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr <bss@iguanasuicide.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-21Rename diff.suppress-blank-empty to diff.suppressBlankEmptyLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-1/+3
All the other config variables use CamelCase. This config variable should not be an exception. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-17color-words: make regex configurable via attributesLibravatar Thomas Rast1-0/+10
Make the --color-words splitting regular expression configurable via the diff driver's 'wordregex' attribute. The user can then set the driver on a file in .gitattributes. If a regex is given on the command line, it overrides the driver's setting. We also provide built-in regexes for the languages that already had funcname patterns, and add an appropriate diff driver entry for C/++. (The patterns are designed to run UTF-8 sequences into a single chunk to make sure they remain readable.) Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-17color-words: enable REG_NEWLINE to help userLibravatar Thomas Rast1-1/+2
We silently truncate a match at the newline, which may lead to unexpected behaviour, e.g., when matching "<[^>]*>" against <foo bar> since then "<foo" becomes a word (and "bar>" doesn't!) even though the regex said only angle-bracket-delimited things can be words. To alleviate the problem slightly, use REG_NEWLINE so that negated classes can't match a newline. Of course newlines can still be matched explicitly. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-17color-words: take an optional regular expression describing wordsLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-9/+55
In some applications, words are not delimited by white space. To allow for that, you can specify a regular expression describing what makes a word with git diff --color-words='[A-Za-z0-9]+' Note that words cannot contain newline characters. As suggested by Thomas Rast, the words are the exact matches of the regular expression. Note that a regular expression beginning with a '^' will match only a word at the beginning of the hunk, not a word at the beginning of a line, and is probably not what you want. This commit contains a quoting fix by Thomas Rast. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-17color-words: change algorithm to allow for 0-character word boundariesLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-66/+91
Up until now, the color-words code assumed that word boundaries are identical to white space characters. Therefore, it could get away with a very simple scheme: it copied the hunks, substituted newlines for each white space character, called libxdiff with the processed text, and then identified the text to output by the offsets (which agreed since the original text had the same length). This code was ugly, for a number of reasons: - it was impossible to introduce 0-character word boundaries, - we had to print everything word by word, and - the code needed extra special handling of newlines in the removed part. Fix all of these issues by processing the text such that - we build word lists, separated by newlines, - we remember the original offsets for every word, and - after calling libxdiff on the wordlists, we parse the hunk headers, and find the corresponding offsets, and then - we print the removed/added parts in one go. The pre and post samples in the test were provided by Santi Béjar. Note that there is some strange special handling of hunk headers where one line range is 0 due to POSIX: in this case, the start is one too low. In other words a hunk header '@@ -1,0 +2 @@' actually means that the line must be added after the _second_ line of the pre text, _not_ the first. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-17color-words: refactor word splitting and use ALLOC_GROW()Libravatar Johannes Schindelin1-21/+19
Word splitting is now performed by the function diff_words_fill(), avoiding having the same code twice. In the same spirit, avoid duplicating the code of ALLOC_GROW(). Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-07Introduce the diff option '--patience'Libravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+2
This commit teaches Git to produce diff output using the patience diff algorithm with the diff option '--patience'. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-07Merge branch 'rs/diff-ihc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
* rs/diff-ihc: diff: add option to show context between close hunks Conflicts: Documentation/diff-options.txt
2009-01-05remove trailing LF in die() messagesLibravatar Alexander Potashev1-1/+1
LF at the end of format strings given to die() is redundant because die already adds one on its own. Signed-off-by: Alexander Potashev <aspotashev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-29diff: add option to show context between close hunksLibravatar René Scharfe1-0/+4
Merge two hunks if there is only the specified number of otherwise unshown context between them. For --inter-hunk-context=1, the resulting patch has the same number of lines but shows uninterrupted context instead of a context header line in between. Patches generated with this option are easier to read but are also more likely to conflict if the file to be patched contains other changes. This patch keeps the default for this option at 0. It is intended to just make the feature available in order to see its advantages and downsides. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-18Fix type-mismatch compiler warning from diff_populate_filespec()Libravatar René Scharfe1-1/+2
The type of the size member of filespec is ulong, while strbuf_detach expects a size_t pointer. This patch should fix the warning: Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-17Make 'prepare_temp_file()' ignore st_size for symlinksLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-5/+4
The code was already set up to not really need it, so this just massages it a bit to remove the use entirely. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-17Make 'diff_populate_filespec()' use the new 'strbuf_readlink()'Libravatar Linus Torvalds1-9/+7
This makes all tests pass on a system where 'lstat()' has been hacked to return bogus data in st_size for symlinks. Of course, the test coverage isn't complete, but it's a good baseline. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-09diff: respect textconv in rewrite diffsLibravatar Jeff King1-12/+36
Currently we just skip rewrite diffs for binary files; this patch makes an exception for files which will be textconv'd, and actually performs the textconv before generating the diff. Conceptually, rewrite diffs should be in the exact same format as the a non-rewrite diff, except that we refuse to share any context. Thus it makes very little sense for "git diff" to show a textconv'd diff, but for "git diff -B" to show "Binary files differ". Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-09diff: fix handling of binary rewrite diffsLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+3
The current emit_rewrite_diff code always writes a text patch without checking whether the content is binary. This means that if you end up with a rewrite diff for a binary file, you get lots of raw binary goo in your patch. Instead, if we have binary files, then let's just skip emit_rewrite_diff altogether. We will already have shown the "dissimilarity index" line, so it is really about the diff contents. If binary diffs are turned off, the "Binary files a/file and b/file differ" message should be the same in either case. If we do have binary patches turned on, there isn't much point in making a less-efficient binary patch that does a total rewrite; no human is going to read it, and since binary patches don't apply with any fuzz anyway, the result of application should be the same. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-07diff: allow turning on textconv explicitly for plumbingLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+4
Some history viewers use the diff plumbing to generate diffs rather than going through the "git diff" porcelain. Currently, there is no way for them to specify that they would like to see the text-converted version of the diff. This patch adds a "--textconv" option to allow such a plumbing user to allow text conversion. The user can then tell the viewer whether or not they would like text conversion enabled. While it may be tempting add a configuration option rather than requiring each plumbing user to be configured to pass --textconv, that is somewhat dangerous. Text-converted diffs generally cannot be applied directly, so each plumbing user should "opt in" to generating such a diff, either by explicit request of the user or by confirming that their output will not be fed to patch. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-12Merge branch 'jk/diff-convfilter'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-25/+45
* jk/diff-convfilter: enable textconv for diff in verbose status/commit wt-status: load diff ui config only textconv regular files userdiff: require explicitly allowing textconv refactor userdiff textconv code Conflicts: t/t4030-diff-textconv.sh
2008-11-12Merge branch 'jk/diff-convfilter-test-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* jk/diff-convfilter-test-fix: Avoid using non-portable `echo -n` in tests. add userdiff textconv tests document the diff driver textconv feature diff: add missing static declaration Conflicts: Documentation/gitattributes.txt
2008-11-08Merge branch 'rs/blame'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
* rs/blame: blame: use xdi_diff_hunks(), get rid of struct patch add xdi_diff_hunks() for callers that only need hunk lengths Allow alternate "low-level" emit function from xdl_diff Always initialize xpparam_t to 0 blame: inline get_patch()
2008-10-26only textconv regular filesLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+2
We treat symlinks as text containing the results of the symlink, so it doesn't make much sense to text-convert them. Similarly gitlink components just end up as the text "Subproject commit $sha1", which we should leave intact. Note that a typechange may be broken into two parts: the removal of the old part and the addition of the new. In that case, we _do_ show the textconv for any part which is the addition or removal of a file we would ordinarily textconv, since it is purely acting on the file contents. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-26userdiff: require explicitly allowing textconvLibravatar Jeff King1-15/+11
Diffs that have been produced with textconv almost certainly cannot be applied, so we want to be careful not to generate them in things like format-patch. This introduces a new diff options, ALLOW_TEXTCONV, which controls this behavior. It is off by default, but is explicitly turned on for the "log" family of commands, as well as the "diff" porcelain (but not diff-* plumbing). Because both text conversion and external diffing are controlled by these diff options, we can get rid of the "plumbing versus porcelain" distinction when reading the config. This was an attempt to control the same thing, but suffered from being too coarse-grained. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-26refactor userdiff textconv codeLibravatar Jeff King1-13/+35
The original implementation of textconv put the conversion into fill_mmfile. This was a bad idea for a number of reasons: - it made the semantics of fill_mmfile unclear. In some cases, it was allocating data (if a text conversion occurred), and in some cases not (if we could use the data directly from the filespec). But the caller had no idea which had happened, and so didn't know whether the memory should be freed - similarly, the caller had no idea if a text conversion had occurred, and so didn't know whether the contents should be treated as binary or not. This meant that we incorrectly guessed that text-converted content was binary and didn't actually show it (unless the user overrode us with "diff.foo.binary = false", which then created problems in plumbing where the text conversion did _not_ occur) - not all callers of fill_mmfile want the text contents. In particular, we don't really want diffstat, whitespace checks, patch id generation, etc, to look at the converted contents. This patch pulls the conversion code directly into builtin_diff, so that we only see the conversion when generating an actual patch. We also then know whether we are doing a conversion, so we can check the binary-ness and free the data from the mmfile appropriately (the previous version leaked quite badly when text conversion was used) Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-26diff: add missing static declarationLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
This function isn't used outside of diff.c; the 'static' was simply overlooked in the original writing. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-25Always initialize xpparam_t to 0Libravatar Brian Downing1-0/+5
We're going to be adding some parameters to this, so we can't have any uninitialized data in it. Signed-off-by: Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-18diff: add filter for converting binary to textLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+47
When diffing binary files, it is sometimes nice to see the differences of a canonical text form rather than either a binary patch or simply "binary files differ." Until now, the only option for doing this was to define an external diff command to perform the diff. This was a lot of work, since the external command needed to take care of doing the diff itself (including mode changes), and lost the benefit of git's colorization and other options. This patch adds a text conversion option, which converts a file to its canonical format before performing the diff. This is less flexible than an arbitrary external diff, but is much less work to set up. For example: $ echo '*.jpg diff=exif' >>.gitattributes $ git config diff.exif.textconv exiftool $ git config diff.exif.binary false allows one to see jpg diffs represented by the text output of exiftool. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-10-18diff: introduce diff.<driver>.binaryLibravatar Jeff King1-30/+22
The "diff" gitattribute is somewhat overloaded right now. It can say one of three things: 1. this file is definitely binary, or definitely not (i.e., diff or !diff) 2. this file should use an external diff engine (i.e., diff=foo, diff.foo.command = custom-script) 3. this file should use particular funcname patterns (i.e., diff=foo, diff.foo.(x?)funcname = some-regex) Most of the time, there is no conflict between these uses, since using one implies that the other is irrelevant (e.g., an external diff engine will decide for itself whether the file is binary). However, there is at least one conflicting situation: there is no way to say "use the regular rules to determine whether this file is binary, but if we do diff it textually, use this funcname pattern." That is, currently setting diff=foo indicates that the file is definitely text. This patch introduces a "binary" config option for a diff driver, so that one can explicitly set diff.foo.binary. We default this value to "don't know". That is, setting a diff attribute to "foo" and using "diff.foo.funcname" will have no effect on the binaryness of a file. To get the current behavior, one can set diff.foo.binary to true. This patch also has one additional advantage: it cleans up the interface to the userdiff code a bit. Before, calling code had to know more about whether attributes were false, true, or unset to determine binaryness. Now that binaryness is a property of a driver, we can represent these situations just by passing back a driver struct. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>