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2009-01-17color-words: take an optional regular expression describing wordsLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+1
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>
2008-12-29diff: add option to show context between close hunksLibravatar René Scharfe1-0/+1
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>
2008-10-26userdiff: require explicitly allowing textconvLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+1
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>
2008-09-25Merge branch 'ho/dirstat-by-file'Libravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-0/+1
* ho/dirstat-by-file: diff --dirstat-by-file: count changed files, not lines
2008-09-18Merge branch 'jc/diff-prefix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
* jc/diff-prefix: diff: vary default prefix depending on what are compared
2008-09-05diff --dirstat-by-file: count changed files, not linesLibravatar Heikki Orsila1-0/+1
This new option --dirstat-by-file is the same as --dirstat, but it counts "impacted files" instead of "impacted lines" (lines that are added or removed). Signed-off-by: Heikki Orsila <heikki.orsila@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-03diff --cumulative is a sub-option of --dirstatLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
The option used to be implemented as if it is a totally independent one, but "git diff --cumulative" would not mean anything without "--dirstat". This makes --cumulative imply --dirstat. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-30diff: vary default prefix depending on what are comparedLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
With a new configuration "diff.mnemonicprefix", "git diff" shows the differences between various combinations of preimage and postimage trees with prefixes different from the standard "a/" and "b/". Hopefully this will make the distinction stand out for some people. "git diff" compares the (i)ndex and the (w)ork tree; "git diff HEAD" compares a (c)ommit and the (w)ork tree; "git diff --cached" compares a (c)ommit and the (i)ndex; "git-diff HEAD:file1 file2" compares an (o)bject and a (w)ork tree entity; "git diff --no-index a b" compares two non-git things (1) and (2). Because these mnemonics now have meanings, they are swapped when reverse diff is in effect and this feature is enabled. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-16Fix buffer overflow in git diffLibravatar Dmitry Potapov1-5/+4
If PATH_MAX on your system is smaller than a path stored, it may cause buffer overflow and stack corruption in diff_addremove() and diff_change() functions when running git-diff Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-26Merge branch 'jc/diff-no-no-index'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+2
* jc/diff-no-no-index: git diff --no-index: default to page like other diff frontends git-diff: allow --no-index semantics a bit more "git diff": do not ignore index without --no-index diff-files: do not play --no-index games tests: do not use implicit "git diff --no-index"
2008-05-25Merge branch 'js/config-cb'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
* js/config-cb: Provide git_config with a callback-data parameter Conflicts: builtin-add.c builtin-cat-file.c
2008-05-24"git diff": do not ignore index without --no-indexLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+2
Even if "foo" and/or "bar" does not exist in index, "git diff foo bar" should not change behaviour drastically from "git diff foo bar baz" or "git diff foo". A feature that "sometimes works and is handy" is an unreliable cute hack. "git diff foo bar" outside a git repository continues to work as a more colourful alternative to "diff -u" as before. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-15diff options: Introduce --ignore-submodulesLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+1
The new option --ignore-submodules can now be used to ignore changes in submodules. Why? Sometimes it is not interesting when a submodule changed. For example, when reordering some commits in the superproject, a dirty submodule is usually totally uninteresting. So we will use this option in git-rebase to test for a dirty working tree. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-14Merge branch 'jk/renamelimit' (early part)Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
* 'jk/renamelimit' (early part): diff: make "too many files" rename warning optional bump rename limit defaults add merge.renamelimit config option
2008-05-14Provide git_config with a callback-data parameterLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-2/+2
git_config() only had a function parameter, but no callback data parameter. This assumes that all callback functions only modify global variables. With this patch, every callback gets a void * parameter, and it is hoped that this will help the libification effort. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-03diff: make "too many files" rename warning optionalLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+1
In many cases, the warning ends up as clutter, because the diff is being done "behind the scenes" from the user (e.g., when generating a commit diffstat), and whether we show renames or not is not particularly interesting to the user. However, in the case of a merge (which is what motivated the warning in the first place), it is a useful hint as to why a merge with renames might have failed. This patch makes the warning optional based on the code calling into diffcore. We default to not showing the warning, but turn it on for merges. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-03Remove dead code: show_log() sep argument and diff_options.msg_sepLibravatar Adam Simpkins1-1/+0
These variables were made unnecessary by commit 3969cf7db1a13a78f3b7a36d8c1084bbe0a53459. Signed-off-by: Adam Simpkins <adam@adamsimpkins.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-14Write diff output to a file in struct diff_optionsLibravatar Daniel Barkalow1-0/+3
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-27Merge branch 'jc/diff-relative'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
* jc/diff-relative: diff --relative: help working in a bare repository diff --relative: output paths as relative to the current subdirectory
2008-02-24Merge branch 'lt/dirstat'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
* lt/dirstat: diff --dirstat: saner handling of binary and unmerged files Add "--dirstat" for some directory statistics
2008-02-18Add color.ui variable which globally enables colorization if setLibravatar Matthias Kestenholz1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kestenholz <mk@spinlock.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-13diff --relative: output paths as relative to the current subdirectoryLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
This adds --relative option to the diff family. When you start from a subdirectory: $ git diff --relative shows only the diff that is inside your current subdirectory, and without $prefix part. People who usually live in subdirectories may like it. There are a few things I should also mention about the change: - This works not just with diff but also works with the log family of commands, but the history pruning is not affected. In other words, if you go to a subdirectory, you can say: $ git log --relative -p but it will show the log message even for commits that do not touch the current directory. You can limit it by giving pathspec yourself: $ git log --relative -p . This originally was not a conscious design choice, but we have a way to affect diff pathspec and pruning pathspec independently. IOW "git log --full-diff -p ." tells it to prune history to commits that affect the current subdirectory but show the changes with full context. I think it makes more sense to leave pruning independent from --relative than the obvious alternative of always pruning with the current subdirectory, which would break the symmetry. - Because this works also with the log family, you could format-patch a single change, limiting the effect to your subdirectory, like so: $ cd gitk-git $ git format-patch -1 --relative 911f1eb But because that is a special purpose usage, this option will never become the default, with or without repository or user preference configuration. The risk of producing a partial patch and sending it out by mistake is too great if we did so. - This is inherently incompatible with --no-index, which is a bolted-on hack that does not have much to do with git itself. I didn't bother checking and erroring out on the combined use of the options, but probably I should. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-12Add "--dirstat" for some directory statisticsLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-0/+3
This adds a new form of overview diffstat output, doing something that I have occasionally ended up doing manually (and badly, because it's actually pretty nasty to do), and that I think is very useful for an project like the kernel that has a fairly deep and well-separated directory structure with semantic meaning. What I mean by that is that it's often interesting to see exactly which sub-directories are impacted by a patch, and to what degree - even if you don't perhaps care so much about the individual files themselves. What makes the concept more interesting is that the "impact" is often hierarchical: in the kernel, for example, something could either have a very localized impact to "fs/ext3/" and then it's interesting to see that such a patch changes mostly that subdirectory, but you could have another patch that changes some generic VFS-layer issue which affects _many_ subdirectories that are all under "fs/", but none - or perhaps just a couple of them - of the individual filesystems are interesting in themselves. So what commonly happens is that you may have big changes in a specific sub-subdirectory, but still also significant separate changes to the subdirectory leading up to that - maybe you have significant VFS-level changes, but *also* changes under that VFS layer in the NFS-specific directories, for example. In that case, you do want the low-level parts that are significant to show up, but then the insignificant ones should show up as under the more generic top-level directory. This patch shows all of that with "--dirstat". The output can be either something simple like commit 81772fe... Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Date: Sun Feb 10 23:57:36 2008 +0100 x86: remove over noisy debug printk pageattr-test.c contains a noisy debug printk that people reported. The condition under which it prints (randomly tapping into a mem_map[] hole and not being able to c_p_a() there) is valid behavior and not interesting to report. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 100.0% arch/x86/mm/ or something much more complex like commit e231c2e... Author: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Date: Thu Feb 7 00:15:26 2008 -0800 Convert ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(p)) instances to ERR_CAST(p) 20.5% crypto/ 7.6% fs/afs/ 7.6% fs/fuse/ 7.6% fs/gfs2/ 5.1% fs/jffs2/ 5.1% fs/nfs/ 5.1% fs/nfsd/ 7.6% fs/reiserfs/ 15.3% fs/ 7.6% net/rxrpc/ 10.2% security/keys/ where that latter example is an example of significant work in some individual fs/*/ subdirectories (like the patches to reiserfs accounting for 7.6% of the whole), but then discounting those individual filesystems, there's also 15.3% other "random" things that weren't worth reporting on their oen left over under fs/ in general (either in that directory itself, or in subdirectories of fs/ that didn't have enough changes to be reported individually). I'd like to stress that the "15.3% fs/" mentioned above is the stuff that is under fs/ but that was _not_ significant enough to report on its own. So the above does _not_ mean that 15.3% of the work was under fs/ per se, because that 15.3% does *not* include the already-reported 7.6% of afs, 7.6% of fuse etc. If you want to enable "cumulative" directory statistics, you can use the "--cumulative" flag, which adds up percentages recursively even when they have been already reported for a sub-directory. That cumulative output is disabled if *all* of the changes in one subdirectory come from a deeper subdirectory, to avoid repeating subdirectories all the way to the root. For an example of the cumulative reporting, the above commit becomes commit e231c2e... Author: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Date: Thu Feb 7 00:15:26 2008 -0800 Convert ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(p)) instances to ERR_CAST(p) 20.5% crypto/ 7.6% fs/afs/ 7.6% fs/fuse/ 7.6% fs/gfs2/ 5.1% fs/jffs2/ 5.1% fs/nfs/ 5.1% fs/nfsd/ 7.6% fs/reiserfs/ 61.5% fs/ 7.6% net/rxrpc/ 10.2% security/keys/ in which the commit percentages now obviously add up to much more than 100%: now the changes that were already reported for the sub-directories under fs/ are then cumulatively included in the whole percentage of fs/ (ie now shows 61.5% as opposed to the 15.3% without the cumulative reporting). The default reporting limit has been arbitrarily set at 3%, which seems to be a pretty good cut-off, but you can specify the cut-off manually by giving it as an option parameter (eg "--dirstat=5" makes the cut-off be at 5% instead) NOTE! The percentages are purely about the total lines added and removed, not anything smarter (or dumber) than that. Also note that you should not generally expect things to add up to 100%: not only does it round down, we don't report leftover scraps (they add up to the top-level change count, but we don't even bother reporting that, it only reports subdirectories). Quite frankly, as a top-level manager this is really convenient for me, but it's going to be very boring for git itself since there are few subdirectories. Also, don't expect things to make tons of sense if you combine this with "-M" and there are cross-directory renames etc. But even for git itself, you can get some fun statistics. Try out git log --dirstat and see the occasional mentions of things like Documentation/, git-gui/, gitweb/ and gitk-git/. Or try out something like git diff --dirstat v1.5.0..v1.5.4 which does kind of git an overview that shows *something*. But in general, the output is more exciting for big projects with deeper structure, and doing a git diff --dirstat v2.6.24..v2.6.25-rc1 on the kernel is what I actually wrote this for! Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-04add a "basic" diff config callbackLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+1
The diff porcelain uses git_diff_ui_config to set porcelain-ish config options, like automatically turning on color. The plumbing specifically avoids calling this function, since it doesn't want things like automatic color or rename detection. However, some diff options should be set for both plumbing and porcelain. For example, one can still turn on color in git-diff-files using the --color command line option. This means we want the color config from color.diff.* (so that once color is on, we use the user's preferred scheme), but _not_ the color.diff variable. We split the diff config into "ui" and "basic", where "basic" is suitable for use by plumbing (so _most_ things affecting the output should still go into the "ui" part). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-20Teach diff machinery to display other prefixes than "a/" and "b/"Libravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+1
With the new options "--src-prefix=<prefix>", "--dst-prefix=<prefix>" and "--no-prefix", you can now control the path prefixes of the diff machinery. These used to by hardwired to "a/" for the source prefix and "b/" for the destination prefix. Initial patch by Pascal Obry. Sane option names suggested by Linus. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-13diff --check: minor fixupsLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
There is no reason --exit-code and --check-diff must be mutually exclusive, so assign different bits to different results and allow them to be returned from the command. Introduce diff_result_code() to factor out the common code to decide final status code based on diffopt settings and use it everywhere. Update tests to match the above fix. Turning pager off when "diff --check" is used is a regression. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-13"diff --check" should affect exit statusLibravatar Wincent Colaiuta1-0/+1
"git diff" has a --check option that can be used to check for whitespace problems but it only reported by printing warnings to the console. Now when the --check option is used we give a non-zero exit status, making "git diff --check" nicer to use in scripts and hooks. Signed-off-by: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-18Merge branch 'ph/diffopts'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-16/+24
* ph/diffopts: Reorder diff_opt_parse options more logically per topics. Make the diff_options bitfields be an unsigned with explicit masks. Use OPT_BIT in builtin-pack-refs Use OPT_BIT in builtin-for-each-ref Use OPT_SET_INT and OPT_BIT in builtin-branch parse-options new features.
2007-11-11Make the diff_options bitfields be an unsigned with explicit masks.Libravatar Pierre Habouzit1-16/+24
reverse_diff was a bit-value in disguise, it's merged in the flags now. Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-10git-add: make the entry stat-clean after re-adding the same contentsLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
Earlier in commit 0781b8a9b2fe760fc4ed519a3a26e4b9bd6ccffe (add_file_to_index: skip rehashing if the cached stat already matches), add_file_to_index() were taught not to re-add the path if it already matches the index. The change meant well, but was not executed quite right. It used ie_modified() to see if the file on the work tree is really different from the index, and skipped adding the contents if the function says "not modified". This was wrong. There are three possible comparison results between the index and the file in the work tree: - with lstat(2) we _know_ they are different. E.g. if the length or the owner in the cached stat information is different from the length we just obtained from lstat(2), we can tell the file is modified without looking at the actual contents. - with lstat(2) we _know_ they are the same. The same length, the same owner, the same everything (but this has a twist, as described below). - we cannot tell from lstat(2) information alone and need to go to the filesystem to actually compare. The last case arises from what we call 'racy git' situation, that can be caused with this sequence: $ echo hello >file $ git add file $ echo aeiou >file ;# the same length If the second "echo" is done within the same filesystem timestamp granularity as the first "echo", then the timestamp recorded by "git add" and the timestamp we get from lstat(2) will be the same, and we can mistakenly say the file is not modified. The path is called 'racily clean'. We need to reliably detect racily clean paths are in fact modified. To solve this problem, when we write out the index, we mark the index entry that has the same timestamp as the index file itself (that is the time from the point of view of the filesystem) to tell any later code that does the lstat(2) comparison not to trust the cached stat info, and ie_modified() then actually goes to the filesystem to compare the contents for such a path. That's all good, but it should not be used for this "git add" optimization, as the goal of "git add" is to actually update the path in the index and make it stat-clean. With the false optimization, we did _not_ cause any data loss (after all, what we failed to do was only to update the cached stat information), but it made the following sequence leave the file stat dirty: $ echo hello >file $ git add file $ echo hello >file ;# the same contents $ git add file The solution is not to use ie_modified() which goes to the filesystem to see if it is really clean, but instead use ie_match_stat() with "assume racily clean paths are dirty" option, to force re-adding of such a path. There was another problem with "git add -u". The codepath shares the same issue when adding the paths that are found to be modified, but in addition, it asked "git diff-files" machinery run_diff_files() function (which is "git diff-files") to list the paths that are modified. But "git diff-files" machinery uses the same ie_modified() call so that it does not report racily clean _and_ actually clean paths as modified, which is not what we want. The patch allows the callers of run_diff_files() to pass the same "assume racily clean paths are dirty" option, and makes "git-add -u" codepath to use that option, to discover and re-add racily clean _and_ actually clean paths. We could further optimize on top of this patch to differentiate the case where the path really needs re-adding (i.e. the content of the racily clean entry was indeed different) and the case where only the cached stat information needs to be refreshed (i.e. the racily clean entry was actually clean), but I do not think it is worth it. This patch applies to maint and all the way up. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-10ce_match_stat, run_diff_files: use symbolic constants for readabilityLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+3
ce_match_stat() can be told: (1) to ignore CE_VALID bit (used under "assume unchanged" mode) and perform the stat comparison anyway; (2) not to perform the contents comparison for racily clean entries and report mismatch of cached stat information; using its "option" parameter. Give them symbolic constants. Similarly, run_diff_files() can be told not to report anything on removed paths. Also give it a symbolic constant for that. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-14diff: squelch empty diffs even moreLibravatar René Scharfe1-0/+1
When we compare two non-tracked files, or explicitly specify --no-index, the suggestion to run git-status is not helpful. The patch adds a new diff_options bitfield member, no_index, that is used instead of the special value of -2 of the rev_info field max_count to indicate that the index is not to be used. This makes it possible to pass that flag down to diffcore_skip_stat_unmatch(), which only has one diff_options parameter. This could even become a cleanup if we removed all assignments of max_count to a value of -2 (viz. replacement of a magic value with a self-documenting field name) but I didn't dare to do that so late in the rc game.. The no_index bit, if set, then tells diffcore_skip_stat_unmatch() to not account for any skipped stat-mismatches, which avoids the suggestion to run git-status. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-14git-diff: squelch "empty" diffsLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
After starting to edit a working tree file but later when your edit ends up identical to the original (this can also happen when you ran a wholesale regexp replace with something like "perl -i" that does not actually modify many of the paths), "git diff" between the index and the working tree outputs many "empty" diffs that show "diff --git" headers and nothing else, because these paths are stat-dirty. While it was a way to warn the user that the earlier action of the user made the index ineffective as an optimization mechanism, it was felt too loud for the purpose of warning even to experienced users, and also resulted in confusing people new to git. This replaces the "empty" diffs with a single warning message at the end. Having many such paths hurts performance, and you can run "git-update-index --refresh" to update the lstat(2) information recorded in the index in such a case. "git-status" does so as a side effect, and that is more familiar to the end-user, so we recommend it to them. The change affects only "git diff" that outputs patch text, because that is where the annoyance of too many "empty" diff is most strongly felt, and because the warning message can be safely ignored by downstream tools without getting mistaken as part of the patch. For the low-level "git diff-files" and "git diff-index", the traditional behaviour is retained. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-22Finally implement "git log --follow"Libravatar Linus Torvalds1-0/+1
Ok, I've really held off doing this too damn long, because I'm lazy, and I was always hoping that somebody else would do it. But no, people keep asking for it, but nobody actually did anything, so I decided I might as well bite the bullet, and instead of telling people they could add a "--follow" flag to "git log" to do what they want to do, I decided that it looks like I just have to do it for them.. The code wasn't actually that complicated, in that the diffstat for this patch literally says "70 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)", but I will have to admit that in order to get to this fairly simple patch, you did have to know and understand the internal git diff generation machinery pretty well, and had to really be able to follow how commit generation interacts with generating patches and generating the log. So I suspect that while I was right that it wasn't that hard, I might have been expecting too much of random people - this patch does seem to be firmly in the core "Linus or Junio" territory. To make a long story short: I'm sorry for it taking so long until I just did it. I'm not going to guarantee that this works for everybody, but you really can just look at the patch, and after the appropriate appreciative noises ("Ooh, aah") over how clever I am, you can then just notice that the code itself isn't really that complicated. All the real new code is in the new "try_to_follow_renames()" function. It really isn't rocket science: we notice that the pathname we were looking at went away, so we start a full tree diff and try to see if we can instead make that pathname be a rename or a copy from some other previous pathname. And if we can, we just continue, except we show *that* particular diff, and ever after we use the _previous_ pathname. One thing to look out for: the "rename detection" is considered to be a singular event in the _linear_ "git log" output! That's what people want to do, but I just wanted to point out that this patch is *not* carrying around a "commit,pathname" kind of pair and it's *not* going to be able to notice the file coming from multiple *different* files in earlier history. IOW, if you use "git log --follow", then you get the stupid CVS/SVN kind of "files have single identities" kind of semantics, and git log will just pick the identity based on the normal move/copy heuristics _as_if_ the history could be linearized. Put another way: I think the model is broken, but given the broken model, I think this patch does just about as well as you can do. If you have merges with the same "file" having different filenames over the two branches, git will just end up picking _one_ of the pathnames at the point where the newer one goes away. It never looks at multiple pathnames in parallel. And if you understood all that, you probably didn't need it explained, and if you didn't understand the above blathering, it doesn't really mtter to you. What matters to you is that you can now do git log -p --follow builtin-rev-list.c and it will find the point where the old "rev-list.c" got renamed to "builtin-rev-list.c" and show it as such. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-08Even more missing staticLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-04-22Support 'diff=pgm' attributeLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
This enhances the attributes mechanism so that external programs meant for existing GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF interface can be specifed per path. To configure such a custom diff driver, first define a custom diff driver in the configuration: [diff "my-c-diff"] command = <<your command string comes here>> Then mark the paths that you want to use this custom driver using the attribute mechanism. *.c diff=my-c-diff The intent of this separation is that the attribute mechanism is used for specifying the type of the contents, while the configuration mechanism is used to define what needs to be done to that type of the contents, which would be specific to both platform and personal taste. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-14diff --quietLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
This adds the command line option 'quiet' to tell 'git diff-*' that we are not interested in the actual diff contents but only want to know if there is any change. This option automatically turns --exit-code on, and turns off output formatting, as it does not make much sense to show the first hit we happened to have found. The --quiet option is silently turned off (but --exit-code is still in effect, so is silent output) if postprocessing filters such as pickaxe and diff-filter are used. For all practical purposes I do not think of a reason to want to use these filters and not viewing the diff output. The backends have not been taught about the option with this patch. That is a topic for later rounds. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-14Remove unused diffcore_std_no_resolveLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+0
This was only used by diff-tree-helper program, whose purpose was to translate a raw diff to a patch. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-14Allow git-diff exit with codes similar to diff(1)Libravatar Alex Riesen1-1/+4
This introduces a new command-line option: --exit-code. The diff programs will return 1 for differences, return 0 for equality, and something else for errors. Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-28diff: make more cases implicit --no-indexLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+2
When specifying an absolute path, or a relative path pointing outside the working tree, do not fail, but roll your own diffopt parsing, and execute a --no-index diff. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-26diff --no-index: also imitate the exit status of diff(1)Libravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+3
diff sets the exit status to 0 when no changes were found, to 1 when changes were found, and 2 means error. We imitate this to be able to use "git diff" in the test scripts. (Actually, keeping in line with the rest of git, -1 is returned on error, which corresponds to an exit status 255). To find out if the diff is not empty, a member called "found_changes" was introduced in struct diff_options, which is set in builtin_diff() and fn_out_consume(). Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-22Teach git-diff-files the new option `--no-index`Libravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+1
With this flag and given two paths, git-diff-files behaves as a GNU diff lookalike (plus the git goodies like --check, colour, etc.). This flag is also available in git-diff. It also works outside of a git repository. In addition, if git-diff{,-files} is called without revision or stage parameter, and with exactly two paths at least one of which is not tracked, the default is --no-index. So, you can now say git diff /etc/inittab /etc/fstab and it actually works! This also unifies the duplicated argument parsing between cmd_diff_files() and builtin_diff_files(). Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-05git-blame: no rev means start from the working tree file.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
Warning: this changes the semantics. This makes "git blame" without any positive rev to start digging from the working tree copy, which is made into a fake commit whose sole parent is the HEAD. It also adds --contents <file> option to pretend as if the working tree copy has the contents of the named file. You can use '-' to make the command read from the standard input. If you want the command to start annotating from the HEAD commit, you need to explicitly give HEAD parameter. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-06diff-index --cached --raw: show tree entry on the LHS for unmerged entries.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+3
This updates the way diffcore represents an unmerged pair somewhat. It used to be that entries with mode=0 on both sides were used to represent an unmerged pair, but now it has an explicit flag. This is to allow diff-index --cached to report the entry from the tree when the path is unmerged in the index. This is used in updating "git reset <tree> -- <path>" to restore absense of the path in the index from the tree. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-15make commit message a little more consistent and confortingLibravatar Nicolas Pitre1-0/+1
It is nicer to let the user know when a commit succeeded all the time, not only the first time. Also the commit sha1 is much more useful than the tree sha1 in this case. This patch also introduces a -q switch to supress this message as well as the summary of created/deleted files. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-11-07Merge branch 'jc/pickaxe'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
2006-11-04git-pickaxe: rename detection optimizationLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
The idea is that we are interested in renaming into only one path, so we do not care about renames that happen elsewhere. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-26Make git-cherry handle root treesLibravatar Rene Scharfe1-0/+2
This patch on top of 'next' makes built-in git-cherry handle root commits. It moves the static function log-tree.c::diff_root_tree() to tree-diff.c and makes it more similar to diff_tree_sha1() by shuffling around arguments and factoring out the call to log_tree_diff_flush(). Consequently the name is changed to diff_root_tree_sha1(). It is a version of diff_tree_sha1() that compares the empty tree (= root tree) against a single 'real' tree. This function is then used in get_patch_id() to compute patch IDs for initial commits instead of SEGFAULTing, as the current code does if confronted with parentless commits. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-13diff --numstatLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+9
[jc: with documentation from Jakub] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-09-30Merge branch 'jc/diff-stat'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
* jc/diff-stat: diff --stat: ensure at least one '-' for deletions, and one '+' for additions diff --stat=width[,name-width]: allow custom diffstat output width. diff --stat: color output. diff --stat: allow custom diffstat output width.