The tar-ball and the git archive itself is fine, but yes, the diff from
2.6.23 to 2.6.24-rc6 is bad. It's the "trim_common_tail()" optimization
that has caused way too much pain.
Very interesting breakage. The patch was actually "correct" in a (rather
limited) technical sense, but the context at the end was missing because
while the trim_common_tail() code made sure to keep enough common context
to allow a valid diff to be generated, the diff machinery itself could
decide that it could generate the diff differently than the "obvious"
solution.
Thee sad fact is that the git optimization (which is very important for
"git blame", which needs no context), is only really valid for that one
case where we really don't need any context.
[jc: since this is shared with "git diff -U0" codepath, context recovery
to the end of line needs to be done even for zero context case.]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We need to be extra careful recovering the removed common section, so
that we do not break context nor the changed incomplete line (i.e. the
last line that does not end with LF).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The recovered context lines were not LF terminated due to off-by-one
error, which also caused the outer loop to count the number of recovered
lines to terminate after running only once.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Inside xdiff library, the number of context lines is represented in
long, not int.
Noticed by Peter Baumann.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This implements earlier Linus's optimization to trim common lines at the
end before passing them down to low level xdiff interface for all of our
xdiff users.
We could later enhance this to also trim common leading lines, but that
would need tweaking the output function to add the number of lines
trimmed at the beginning to line numbers that appear in the hunk
headers.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This inserts a new function xdi_diff() that currently does not
do anything other than calling the underlying xdl_diff() to the
callchain of current callers of xdl_diff() function.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This makes"diff -p" hunk headers customizable via gitattributes mechanism.
It is based on Johannes's earlier patch that allowed to define a single
regexp to be used for everything.
The mechanism to arrive at the regexp that is used to define hunk header
is the same as other use of gitattributes. You assign an attribute, funcname
(because "diff -p" typically uses the name of the function the patch is about
as the hunk header), a simple string value. This can be one of the names of
built-in pattern (currently, "java" is defined) or a custom pattern name, to
be looked up from the configuration file.
(in .gitattributes)
*.java funcname=java
*.perl funcname=perl
(in .git/config)
[funcname]
java = ... # ugly and complicated regexp to override the built-in one.
perl = ... # another ugly and complicated regexp to define a new one.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
We already have two instances where we want to determine if a buffer
contains binary data as opposed to text.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some systems have sizeof(off_t) == 8 while sizeof(size_t) == 4.
This implies that we are able to access and work on files whose
maximum length is around 2^63-1 bytes, but we can only malloc or
mmap somewhat less than 2^32-1 bytes of memory.
On such a system an implicit conversion of off_t to size_t can cause
the size_t to wrap, resulting in unexpected and exciting behavior.
Right now we are working around all gcc warnings generated by the
-Wshorten-64-to-32 option by passing the off_t through xsize_t().
In the future we should make xsize_t on such problematic platforms
detect the wrapping and die if such a file is accessed.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
read_file() was a useful function if you want to work with the xdiff stuff,
so it was renamed and put into a more central place.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Change places that use realloc, without a proper error path, to instead use
xrealloc. Drop an erroneous error path in the daemon code that used errno
in the die message in favour of the simpler xrealloc.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This refactors the line-by-line callback mechanism used in
combine-diff so that other programs can reuse it more easily.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
