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2019-07-28xdiff: drop system includes in xutils.cLibravatar Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón1-4/+0
After b46054b374 ("xdiff: use git-compat-util", 2019-04-11), two system headers added with 6942efcfa9 ("xdiff: load full words in the inner loop of xdl_hash_record", 2012-04-06) to xutils.c are no longer needed and could conflict as shown below from an OpenIndiana build: In file included from xdiff/xinclude.h:26:0, from xdiff/xutils.c:25: ./git-compat-util.h:4:0: warning: "_FILE_OFFSET_BITS" redefined #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64 In file included from /usr/include/limits.h:37:0, from xdiff/xutils.c:23: /usr/include/sys/feature_tests.h:231:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 32 Make sure git-compat-util.h is the first header (through xinclude.h) Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-02xdiff: provide a separate emit callback for hunksLibravatar Jeff King1-4/+17
The xdiff library always emits hunk header lines to our callbacks as formatted strings like "@@ -a,b +c,d @@\n". This is convenient if we're going to output a diff, but less so if we actually need to compute using those numbers, which requires re-parsing the line. In preparation for moving away from this, let's teach xdiff a new callback function which gets the broken-out hunk information. To help callers that don't want to use this new callback, if it's NULL we'll continue to format the hunk header into a string. Note that this function renames the "outf" callback to "out_line", as well. This isn't strictly necessary, but helps in two ways: 1. Now that there are two callbacks, it's nice to use more descriptive names. 2. Many callers did not zero the emit_callback_data struct, and needed to be modified to set ecb.out_hunk to NULL. By changing the name of the existing struct member, that guarantees that any new callers from in-flight topics will break the build and be examined manually. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-11-27Merge branch 'jc/ignore-cr-at-eol'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+36
The "diff" family of commands learned to ignore differences in carriage return at the end of line. * jc/ignore-cr-at-eol: diff: --ignore-cr-at-eol xdiff: reassign xpparm_t.flags bits
2017-11-09Replace Free Software Foundation address in license noticesLibravatar Todd Zullinger1-2/+2
The mailing address for the FSF has changed over the years. Rather than updating the address across all files, refer readers to gnu.org, as the GNU GPL documentation now suggests for license notices. The mailing address is retained in the full license files (COPYING and LGPL-2.1). The old address is still present in t/diff-lib/COPYING. This is intentional, as the file is used in tests and the contents are not expected to change. Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-11-08diff: --ignore-cr-at-eolLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+36
A new option --ignore-cr-at-eol tells the diff machinery to treat a carriage-return at the end of a (complete) line as if it does not exist. Just like other "--ignore-*" options to ignore various kinds of whitespace differences, this will help reviewing the real changes you made without getting distracted by spurious CRLF<->LF conversion made by your editor program. Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> [jch: squashed in command line completion by Dscho] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-12-06xdiff: drop XDL_FAST_HASHLibravatar Jeff King1-106/+0
The xdiff code hashes every line of both sides of a diff, and then compares those hashes to find duplicates. The overall performance depends both on how fast we can compute the hashes, but also on how many hash collisions we see. The idea of XDL_FAST_HASH is to speed up the hash computation. But the generated hashes have worse collision behavior. This means that in some cases it speeds diffs up (running "git log -p" on git.git improves by ~8% with it), but in others it can slow things down. One pathological case saw over a 100x slowdown[1]. There may be a better hash function that covers both properties, but in the meantime we are better off with the original hash. It's slightly slower in the common case, but it has fewer surprising pathological cases. [1] http://public-inbox.org/git/20141222041944.GA441@peff.net/ Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-11diff: fix a double off-by-one with --ignore-space-at-eolLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-2/+4
When comparing two lines, ignoring any whitespace at the end, we first try to match as many bytes as possible and break out of the loop only upon mismatch, to let the remainder be handled by the code shared with the other whitespace-ignoring code paths. When comparing the bytes, however, we incremented the counters always, even if the bytes did not match. And because we fall through to the space-at-eol handling at that point, it is as if that mismatch never happened. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-19diff: add --ignore-blank-lines optionLibravatar Antoine Pelisse1-0/+13
The goal of the patch is to introduce the GNU diff -B/--ignore-blank-lines as closely as possible. The short option is not available because it's already used for "break-rewrites". When this option is used, git-diff will not create hunks that simply add or remove empty lines, but will still show empty lines addition/suppression if they are close enough to "valuable" changes. There are two differences between this option and GNU diff -B option: - GNU diff doesn't have "--inter-hunk-context", so this must be handled - The following sequence looks like a bug (context is displayed twice): $ seq 5 >file1 $ cat <<EOF >file2 change 1 2 3 4 5 change EOF $ diff -u -B file1 file2 --- file1 2013-06-08 22:13:04.471517834 +0200 +++ file2 2013-06-08 22:13:23.275517855 +0200 @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ +change 1 2 + 3 4 5 @@ -3,3 +5,4 @@ 3 4 5 +change So here is a more thorough description of the option: - real changes are interesting - blank lines that are close enough (less than context size) to interesting changes are considered interesting (recursive definition) - "context" lines are used around each hunk of interesting changes - If two hunks are separated by less than "inter-hunk-context", they will be merged into one. The implementation does the "interesting changes selection" in a single pass. Signed-off-by: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-25Merge branch 'rs/xdiff-fast-hash-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-15/+15
Fixes compilation issue on 32-bit in an earlier series.
2012-05-23xdiff: import new 32-bit version of count_masked_bytes()Libravatar René Scharfe1-13/+5
Import the latest 32-bit implementation of count_masked_bytes() from Linux (arch/x86/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h). It's shorter and avoids overflows and negative numbers. This fixes test failures on 32-bit, where negative partial results had been shifted right using the "wrong" method (logical shift right instead of arithmetic short right). The compiler is free to chose the method, so it was only wrong in the sense that it didn't work as intended by us. Reported-by: Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@sunbase.org> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-23xdiff: avoid more compiler warnings with XDL_FAST_HASH on 32-bit machinesLibravatar René Scharfe1-1/+7
Hide literals that can cause compiler warnings for 32-bit architectures in expressions that evaluate to small numbers there. Some compilers warn that 0x0001020304050608 won't fit into a 32-bit long, others that shifting right by 56 bits clears a 32-bit value completely. The correct values are calculated in the 64-bit case, which is all that matters in this if-branch. Reported-by: Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@sunbase.org> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Acked-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-22xdiff: avoid compiler warnings with XDL_FAST_HASH on 32-bit machinesLibravatar René Scharfe1-3/+5
Import macro REPEAT_BYTE from Linux (arch/x86/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h) to avoid 64-bit integer literals, which cause some 32-bit compilers to print warnings. Reported-by: Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@sunbase.org> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-09xdiff: remove unused functionsLibravatar René Scharfe1-43/+0
The functions xdl_cha_first(), xdl_cha_next() and xdl_atol() are not used by us. While removing them increases the difference to the upstream version of libxdiff, it only adds a bit to the more than 600 differing lines in xutils.c (mmfile_t management was simplified significantly when the library was imported initially). Besides, if upstream modifies these functions in the future, we won't need to think about importing those changes, so in that sense it makes tracking modifications easier. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-01xdiff: choose XDL_FAST_HASH code on sizeof(long) instead of __WORDSIZELibravatar Thomas Rast1-29/+23
Darwin does not define __WORDSIZE, and compiles the 32-bit code path on 64-bit systems, resulting in a totally broken git. I could not find an alternative -- other than the platform symbols (__x86_64__ etc.) -- that does the test in the preprocessor. However, we can also just test for the size of a 'long', which is what really matters here. Any compiler worth its salt will leave only the branch relevant for its platform, and indeed on Linux/GCC the numbers don't change: Test tr/darwin-xdl-fast-hash origin/next origin/master ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4000.1: log -3000 (baseline) 0.09(0.07+0.01) 0.09(0.07+0.01) -5.5%* 0.09(0.07+0.01) -4.1% 4000.2: log --raw -3000 (tree-only) 0.47(0.41+0.05) 0.47(0.40+0.05) -0.5% 0.45(0.38+0.06) -3.5%. 4000.3: log -p -3000 (Myers) 1.81(1.67+0.12) 1.81(1.67+0.13) +0.3% 1.99(1.84+0.12) +10.2%*** 4000.4: log -p -3000 --histogram 1.79(1.66+0.11) 1.80(1.67+0.11) +0.4% 1.96(1.82+0.10) +9.2%*** 4000.5: log -p -3000 --patience 2.17(2.02+0.13) 2.20(2.04+0.13) +1.3%. 2.33(2.18+0.13) +7.4%*** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Significance hints: '.' 0.1 '*' 0.05 '**' 0.01 '***' 0.001 Noticed-by: Brian Gernhardt <brian@gernhardtsoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-09xdiff: load full words in the inner loop of xdl_hash_recordLibravatar Thomas Rast1-0/+112
Redo the hashing loop in xdl_hash_record in a way that loads an entire 'long' at a time, using masking tricks to see when and where we found the terminating '\n'. I stole inspiration and code from the posts by Linus Torvalds around https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/2/452 https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/5/6 His method reads the buffers in sizeof(long) increments, and may thus overrun it by at most sizeof(long)-1 bytes before it sees the final newline (or hits the buffer length check). I considered padding out all buffers by a suitable amount to "catch" the overrun, but * this does not work for mmap()'d buffers: if you map 4096+8 bytes from a 4096 byte file, accessing the last 8 bytes results in a SIGBUS on my machine; and * it would also be extremely ugly because it intrudes deep into the unpacking machinery. So I adapted it to not read beyond the buffer at all. Instead, it reads the final partial word byte-by-byte and strings it together. Then it can use the same logic as before to finish the hashing. So far we enable this only on x86_64, where it provides nice speedup for diff-related work: Test origin/next tr/xdiff-fast-hash ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4000.1: log -3000 (baseline) 0.07(0.05+0.02) 0.08(0.06+0.02) +14.3% 4000.2: log --raw -3000 (tree-only) 0.37(0.33+0.04) 0.37(0.32+0.04) +0.0% 4000.3: log -p -3000 (Myers) 1.75(1.65+0.09) 1.60(1.49+0.10) -8.6% 4000.4: log -p -3000 --histogram 1.73(1.62+0.09) 1.58(1.49+0.08) -8.7% 4000.5: log -p -3000 --patience 2.11(2.00+0.10) 1.94(1.80+0.11) -8.1% Perhaps other platforms could also benefit. However it does NOT work on big-endian systems! [jc: minimum style and compilation fixes] Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-03xdiff: do away with xdl_mmfile_next()Libravatar Tay Ray Chuan1-13/+1
Given our simple mmfile structure, xdl_mmfile_next() calls are redundant. Do away with calls to them. Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-12xdiff/xprepare: use a smaller sample size for histogram diffLibravatar Tay Ray Chuan1-6/+2
For histogram diff, we can afford a smaller sample size and thus a poorer estimate of the number of lines, as the hash table (rhash) won't be filled up/grown. This is safe as the final count of lines (xdf.nrecs) will be updated correctly anyway by xdl_prepare_ctx(). This gives us a small boost in performance. Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-07xdiff/xpatience: factor out fall-back-diff functionLibravatar Tay Ray Chuan1-0/+31
This is in preparation for the histogram diff algorithm, which will also re-use much of the code to call the default Meyers diff algorithm. Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-06xdiff: cast arguments for ctype functions to unsigned charLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-9/+9
The ctype functions isspace(), isalnum(), et al take an integer argument representing an unsigned character, or -1 for EOF. On platforms with a signed char, it is unsafe to pass a char to them without casting it to unsigned char first. Most of git is already shielded against this by the ctype implementation in git-compat-util.h, but xdiff, which uses libc ctype.h, ought to be fixed. Noticed-by: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents-Montreal.ORG> Reported-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-05xdiff: optimise for no whitespace difference when ignoring whitespace.Libravatar Dylan Reid1-1/+3
In xdl_recmatch, do the memcmp to check if the two lines are equal before checking if whitespace flags are set. If the lines are identical, then there is no need to check if they differ only in whitespace. This makes the common case (there is no whitespace difference) faster. It costs the case where lines are the same length and contain whitespace differences, but the common case is more than 20% faster. Signed-off-by: Dylan Reid <dgreid@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-23xutils: Fix xdl_recmatch() on incomplete linesLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-31/+49
Thell Fowler noticed that various "ignore whitespace" options to git diff do not work well on an incomplete line. The loop control of the function responsible for these bugs was extremely difficult to follow. This patch restructures the loops for three variants of "ignore whitespace" logic. The basic idea of the re-written logic is: - A loop runs while the characters from both strings we are looking at match. We declare unmatch immediately when we find something that does not match and return false from the function. We break out of the loop if we ran out of either side of the string. The way we skip spaces inside this loop varies depending on the style of ignoring whitespaces. - After the above loop breaks, we know that the parts of the strings we inspected so far match, ignoring the whitespaces. The lines can match only if the remainder consists of nothing but whitespaces. This part of the logic is shared across all three styles. The new code is more obvious and should be much easier to follow. Tested-by: Thell Fowler <git@tbfowler.name> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-23xutils: Fix hashing an incomplete line with whitespaces at the endLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+4
Upon seeing a whitespace, xdl_hash_record_with_whitespace() first skipped the run of whitespaces (excluding LF) that begins there, ensuring that the pointer points at the last whitespace character in the run, and assumed that the next character must be LF at the end of the line. This does not work when hashing an incomplete line, which lacks the LF at the end. Introduce "at_eol" variable that is true when either we are at the end of line (looking at LF) or at the end of an incomplete line, and use that instead throughout the code. Noticed by Thell Fowler. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-19Fix combined use of whitespace ignore options to diffLibravatar Keith Cascio1-2/+4
The code used to misbehave when options to ignore certain whitespaces (-w -b and --ignore-at-eol) were combined. Signed-off-by: Keith Cascio <keith@cs.ucla.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-15Remove unreachable statementsLibravatar Guido Ostkamp1-2/+0
Solaris Workshop Compiler found a few unreachable statements. Signed-off-by: Guido Ostkamp <git@ostkamp.fastmail.fm> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-07War on whitespaceLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+0
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have crept in to our source files over time. There are a few files that need to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors). The results still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-03-19xdiff/xutils.c(xdl_hash_record): factor out whitespace handlingLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-2/+20
Since in at least one use case, xdl_hash_record() takes over 15% of the CPU time, it makes sense to even micro-optimize it. For many cases, no whitespace special handling is needed, and in these cases we should not even bother to check for whitespace in _every_ iteration of the loop. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-13teach diff machinery about --ignore-space-at-eolLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+24
`git diff --ignore-space-at-eol` will ignore whitespace at the line ends. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-04diff -b: ignore whitespace at end of lineLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-1/+2
This is _not_ the same as "treat eol as whitespace", since that would mean that multiple empty lines would be treated as equal to e.g. a space. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-12diff: fix 2 whitespace issuesLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-17/+12
When whitespace or whitespace change was ignored, the function xdl_recmatch() returned memcmp() style differences, which is wrong, since it should return 0 on non-match. Also, there were three horrible off-by-one bugs, even leading to wrong hashes in the whitespace special handling. The issue was noticed by Ray Lehtiniemi. For good measure, this commit adds a test. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-23Teach diff about -b and -w flagsLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-1/+50
This adds -b (--ignore-space-change) and -w (--ignore-all-space) flags to diff. The main part of the patch is teaching libxdiff about it. [jc: renamed xdl_line_match() to xdl_recmatch() since the former is used for different purposes in xpatchi.c which is in the parts of the upstream source we do not use.] Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-19xdiff: minor changes to match libxdiff-0.21Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+4
This reformats the change 621c53cc082299eaf69e9f2dc0274547c7d87fb0 introduced to match what upstream author implemented in libxdiff-0.21 without changing any logic (hopefully ;-). This is to help keep us in sync with the upstream. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-04-04Clean-up trivially redundant diff.Libravatar Davide Libenzi1-2/+15
Also corrects the line numbers in unified output when using zero lines context.
2006-03-27xdiff: Show function names in hunk headers.Libravatar Mark Wooding1-3/+12
The speed of the built-in diff generator is nice; but the function names shown by `diff -p' are /really/ nice. And I hate having to choose. So, we hack xdiff to find the function names and print them. xdiff has grown a flag to say whether to dig up the function names. The builtin_diff function passes this flag unconditionally. I suppose it could parse GIT_DIFF_OPTS, but it doesn't at the moment. I've also reintroduced the `function name' into the test suite, from which it was removed in commit 3ce8f089. The function names are parsed by a particularly stupid algorithm at the moment: it just tries to find a line in the `old' file, from before the start of the hunk, whose first character looks plausible. Still, it's most definitely a start. Signed-off-by: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-25built-in diff: minimum tweaksLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+10
This fixes up a couple of minor issues with the real built-in diff to be more usable: - Omit ---/+++ header unless we emit diff output; - Detect and punt binary diff like GNU does; - Honor GIT_DIFF_OPTS minimally (only -u<number> and --unified=<number> are currently supported); - Omit line count of 1 from "@@ -l,k +m,n @@" hunk header (i.e. when k == 1 or n == 1) - Adjust testsuite for the lack of -p support. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-25builtin-diff: \No newline at end of file.Libravatar Linus Torvalds1-2/+10
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-25Use a *real* built-in diff generatorLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-0/+265
This uses a simplified libxdiff setup to generate unified diffs _without_ doing fork/execve of GNU "diff". This has several huge advantages, for example: Before: [torvalds@g5 linux]$ time git diff v2.6.16.. > /dev/null real 0m24.818s user 0m13.332s sys 0m8.664s After: [torvalds@g5 linux]$ time git diff v2.6.16.. > /dev/null real 0m4.563s user 0m2.944s sys 0m1.580s and the fact that this should be a lot more portable (ie we can ignore all the issues with doing fork/execve under Windows). Perhaps even more importantly, this allows us to do diffs without actually ever writing out the git file contents to a temporary file (and without any of the shell quoting issues on filenames etc etc). NOTE! THIS PATCH DOES NOT DO THAT OPTIMIZATION YET! I was lazy, and the current "diff-core" code actually will always write the temp-files, because it used to be something that you simply had to do. So this current one actually writes a temp-file like before, and then reads it into memory again just to do the diff. Stupid. But if this basic infrastructure is accepted, we can start switching over diff-core to not write temp-files, which should speed things up even further, especially when doing big tree-to-tree diffs. Now, in the interest of full disclosure, I should also point out a few downsides: - the libxdiff algorithm is different, and I bet GNU diff has gotten a lot more testing. And the thing is, generating a diff is not an exact science - you can get two different diffs (and you will), and they can both be perfectly valid. So it's not possible to "validate" the libxdiff output by just comparing it against GNU diff. - GNU diff does some nice eye-candy, like trying to figure out what the last function was, and adding that information to the "@@ .." line. libxdiff doesn't do that. - The libxdiff thing has some known deficiencies. In particular, it gets the "\No newline at end of file" case wrong. So this is currently for the experimental branch only. I hope Davide will help fix it. That said, I think the huge performance advantage, and the fact that it integrates better is definitely worth it. But it should go into a development branch at least due to the missing newline issue. Technical note: this is based on libxdiff-0.17, but I did some surgery to get rid of the extraneous fat - stuff that git doesn't need, and seriously cutting down on mmfile_t, which had much more capabilities than the diff algorithm either needed or used. In this version, "mmfile_t" is just a trivial <pointer,length> tuple. That said, I tried to keep the differences to simple removals, so that you can do a diff between this and the libxdiff origin, and you'll basically see just things getting deleted. Even the mmfile_t simplifications are left in a state where the diffs should be readable. Apologies to Davide, whom I'd love to get feedback on this all from (I wrote my own "fill_mmfile()" for the new simpler mmfile_t format: the old complex format had a helper function for that, but I did my surgery with the goal in mind that eventually we _should_ just do mmfile_t mf; buf = read_sha1_file(sha1, type, &size); mf->ptr = buf; mf->size = size; .. use "mf" directly .. which was really a nightmare with the old "helpful" mmfile_t, and really is that easy with the new cut-down interfaces). [ Btw, as any hawk-eye can see from the diff, this was actually generated with itself, so it is "self-hosting". That's about all the testing it has gotten, along with the above kernel diff, which eye-balls correctly, but shows the newline issue when you double-check it with "git-apply" ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>