After running the user's diff tool, git-difftool will copy any files
that differ between the working tree and the temporary tree. This is
useful when the user edits the file in their diff tool but is wrong if
they edit the working tree file while examining the diff.
Instead of copying unconditionally when the files differ, create and
index from the working tree files and only copy the temporary file back
if it was modified and the working tree file was not. If both files
have been modified, print a warning and exit with an error.
Note that we cannot use an existing index in git-difftool since those
contain the modified files that need to be checked out but here we are
looking at those files which are copied from the working tree and not
checked out. These are precisely the files which are not in the
existing indices.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git difftool --dir-diff" made symlinks to working tree files when
preparing a temporary directory structure, so that accidental edits
of these files in the difftool are reflected back to the working
tree, but the logic to decide when to do so was not quite right.
* jk/difftool-dir-diff-edit-fix:
difftool --dir-diff: symlink all files matching the working tree
difftool: avoid double slashes in symlink targets
git-difftool(1): fix formatting of --symlink description
Some users like to edit files in their diff tool when using "git
difftool --dir-diff --symlink" to compare against the working tree but
difftool currently only created symlinks when a file contains unstaged
changes.
Change this behaviour so that symlinks are created whenever the
right-hand side of the comparison has the same SHA1 as the file in the
working tree.
Note that textconv filters are handled in the same way as by git-diff
and if a clean filter is not the inverse of its smudge filter we already
get a null SHA1 from "diff --raw" and will symlink the file without
going through the new hash-object based check.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we add tests for symlinks in "git difftool --dir-diff" it's easier
to check the target path if we don't have to worry about double slashes
separating directories. Remove the trailing slash (if present) from
$workdir before creating the symlinks in order to avoid this.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git::config() returns `undef` when given keys that do not exist.
Check that the $guitool value is defined to prevent a noisy
"Use of uninitialized variable $guitool in length" warning.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "--tool-help" option to git-difftool currently displays incorrect
output since it uses the names of the files in
"$GIT_EXEC_PATH/mergetools/" rather than the list of command names in
git-mergetool--lib.
Fix this by simply delegating the "--tool-help" argument to the
show_tool_help function in git-mergetool--lib.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Silence a warning given when running git difftool --dir-diff and
there are no changes.
This is because command_oneline returns undef when the command has no
output, not ''.
Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerwall@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Symlinks are not ubiquitous on Windows so make --no-symlinks the default.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Keep the temporary directory around when compare()
cannot read its input files, which is indicated by -1.
Defer tempdir creation to allow an early exit in setup_dir_diff().
Wrap the rest of the entry points in an exit_cleanup() function
to handle removing temporary files and error reporting.
Print the temporary files' location so that the user can
recover them.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Keep everything within 80 columns. Wrap the user-facing messages too.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Handle the case where compare() is unable to read its inputs.
Emit a warning so that the user knows that something went wrong.
We may later want to restructure the code so that we can inhibit
tempdir cleanup when this condition is reached.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use the original File::Find implementation from bf73fc2 (difftool:
print list of valid tools with '--tool-help', 2012-03-29) so that we
properly handle mergetools/ being located in a path containing
spaces.
One small difference is that we avoid using a global variable by
passing a reference to the list of tools.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach difftool's --dir-diff mode to use symlinks to represent
files from the working copy, and make it the default behavior
for the non-Windows platforms.
Using symlinks is simpler and safer since we do not need to
worry about copying files back into the worktree.
The old behavior is still available as --no-symlinks.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "diffall" name was left over from when this functionality was part of
the "git-diffall" script in contrib/. Make the naming consistent.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Shorten the "my" declaration for all of the option-specific variables
by wrapping all of them in a hash. This also gives us a place to
specify default values, should we need them.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Organize the script so that it has a single main() function which
calls out to dir_diff() and file_diff() functions. This eliminates
"dir-diff"-specific variables that do not need to be calculated when
performing a regular file-diff.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Eliminate a global variable and File::Find usage by building upon
basename() and glob() instead.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When 'difftool --dir-diff' is used to compare working tree files,
it always copies files from the tmp dir back to the working tree
when the diff tool is closed, even if the files were not modified
by the diff tool.
This causes the file timestamp to change. Files should only be
copied from the tmp dir back to the working copy if they were
actually modified.
Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since bc7a96a (mergetool--lib: Refactor tools into separate files,
2011-08-18), it is possible to add a new diff tool by creating a simple
script in the '$(git --exec-path)/mergetools' directory. Updating the
difftool help text is still a manual process, and the documentation can
easily go out of sync.
This commit teaches difftool the '--tool-help' option, which:
- Reads the list of valid tools from 'mergetools/*'
- Determines which of them are actually installed
- Determines which are capable of diffing (i.e. not just a merge tool)
- Prints the resulting list for the user
Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When 'difftool' is called to compare a range of commits that modify
more than one file, it opens a separate instance of the diff tool for
each file that changed.
The new '--dir-diff' option copies all the modified files to a temporary
location and runs a directory diff on them in a single instance of the
diff tool.
Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Removing this function shortens the code and makes it easier to read.
Now all environment variables are set as part of procedural operation.
Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The system call to Git works the same whether or not ".exe" is
appended to "git". The extra code is not necessary.
Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Adding the script directory to PATH is not needed. The script is
located at '$(git --exec-path)', which is already on the PATH.
Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Prior to this commit, the script exited with an error whenever the
usage string was printed, regardless of the reason it was done. In
cases where usage was printed due to a user request (e.g. '-h'
option), the script should exit without error (exit 0).
This commit adds an argument to the usage function that allows the
exit code to be specified when the function is called.
Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit teaches difftool to handle the '--no-gui' option. This option
negates the existing '--gui' option. The last setting given on the command
line wins.
This allows a user to configure "[alias] mdt = difftool --gui", but still
have the ability to override the setting without error:
$ git mdt --no-gui
Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace custom option/argument parser with standard Getopt::Long
module. This shortens the code and makes it easier to understand.
Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A few scripted Porcelain implementations pretend as if the routine to show
their own help messages are triggered upon "git cmd --help", but a command
line parser of "git" will hijack such a request and shows the manpage for
the cmd subcommand.
Leaving the code to handle such input is simply misleading.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In particular, test 14 'difftool last flag wins' in t7800 fails.
This is caused by git-difftool.perl passing both GIT_DIFFTOOL_NO_PROMPT
(='true') and GIT_DIFFTOOL_PROMPT (='true') to the difftool helper
script. Despite the appropriate key being deleted from the ENV
hash, it seems that once a key has been set in the hash, it gets
passed along to the system() call. (ie deleting the key does not
do the equivalent of unsetenv()).
In order to fix the problem, we keep track of the required prompt
state while processing the arguments, and then set the relevant
ENV hash key only once at the end.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Formalize our dependency on perl 5.8, bumped from 5.6.[12]. We already
used the three-arg form of open() which was introduced in 5.6.1, but
t/t9700/test.pl explicitly depended on 5.6.2.
However git-add--interactive.pl has been failing on the 5.6 line since
it was introduced in v1.5.0-rc0~12^2~2 back in 2006 due to this open
syntax:
sub run_cmd_pipe {
my $fh = undef;
open($fh, '-|', @_) or die;
return <$fh>;
}
Which when executed dies on "Can't use an undefined value as
filehandle reference". Several of our tests also fail on 5.6 (even
more when compiled with NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER=1):
t2016-checkout-patch.sh
t3904-stash-patch.sh
t3701-add-interactive.sh
t7105-reset-patch.sh
t7501-commit.sh
t9700-perl-git.sh
Our code is bitrotting on 5.6 with no-one interested in fixing it, and
pinning us to such an ancient release of Perl is keeping us from using
useful features introduced in the 5.8 release.
The 5.6 series is now over 10 years old, and the 5.6.2 maintenance
release almost 7. 5.8 on the other hand is more than 8 years old.
All the modern Unix-like operating systems have now upgraded to it or
a later version, and 5.8 packages are available for old IRIX, AIX
Solaris and Tru64 systems.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no>
Acked-by: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When diff.guitool is unconfigured and "--gui" is specified
git-difftool dies with the following error message:
config diff.guitool: command returned error: 1
Catch the error so that the "--gui" flag is a no-op when
diff.guitool is unconfigured.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This adds '-x' as a shorthand for the '--extcmd' option.
Arguments to '--extcmd' can be specified separately, which
was not originally possible.
This also fixes the brief help text so that it mentions
both '-x' and '--extcmd'.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-difftool requires difftool.<tool>.cmd configuration even when
tools use the standard "$diffcmd $from $to" form. This teaches
git-difftool to run these tools in lieu of configuration by
allowing the command to be specified on the command line.
Reference: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/133377
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Users might prefer to have git-difftool use a different
tool when run from a Git GUI.
This teaches git-difftool to honor 'diff.guitool' when
the '--gui' option is specified. This allows users to
configure their preferred command-line diff tool in
'diff.tool' and a GUI diff tool in 'diff.guitool'.
Reference: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/133386
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In ActivetState Perl, exec does not wait for the started program. This
breaks difftool tests and may cause unexpected behaviour: git difftool
has returned, but the rest of code (diff and possibly the interactive
program are still running in the background.
Acked-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
difftool now supports difftool.prompt so that users do not have to
pass --no-prompt or hit enter each time a diff tool is launched.
The --prompt flag overrides the configuration variable.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This prepares 'git-difftool' and its documentation for
mainstream use.
'git-difftool-helper' became 'git-difftool--helper'
since users should not use it directly.
'git-difftool' was added to the list of commands as
an ancillaryinterrogator.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-07 22:19:56 -07:00
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