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Junio C Hamano
9bd81e4249 Merge branch 'js/config-cb'
* js/config-cb:
  Provide git_config with a callback-data parameter

Conflicts:

	builtin-add.c
	builtin-cat-file.c
2008-05-25 14:25:02 -07:00
Heikki Orsila
dd0ffd5b31 Add log.date config variable
log.date config variable sets the default date-time mode for the log
command. Setting log.date value is similar to using git log's --date
option.

Signed-off-by: Heikki Orsila <heikki.orsila@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-23 16:05:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
486d1a5644 Merge branch 'mv/format-cc'
* mv/format-cc:
  Add tests for sendemail.cc configuration variable
  git-send-email: add a new sendemail.cc configuration variable
  git-format-patch: add a new format.cc configuration variable
2008-05-14 13:34:34 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
ef90d6d420 Provide git_config with a callback-data parameter
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>
2008-05-14 12:34:44 -07:00
Caio Marcelo de Oliveira Filho
37c22a4bf8 git-format-patch: add --no-binary to omit binary changes in the patch.
Add a new option --no-binary to git-format-patch so that no binary
changes are included in the generated patches, only notices that those
files changed.  This generate patches that cannot be applied, but still
is useful for generating mails for code review purposes.

See also: commit e47f306d4b, where --binary
option was turned on by default.

Signed-off-by: Caio Marcelo de Oliveira Filho <cmarcelo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-11 10:12:19 -07:00
Adam Simpkins
028656552b Remove dead code: show_log() sep argument and diff_options.msg_sep
These variables were made unnecessary by commit
3969cf7db1.

Signed-off-by: Adam Simpkins <adam@adamsimpkins.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-03 11:48:03 -07:00
Miklos Vajna
fe8928e6e8 git-format-patch: add a new format.cc configuration variable
Some projects prefer to always CC patches to a given mailing list. In
these cases, it's handy to configure that address once.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-29 19:56:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4da45bef56 log: teach "terminator" vs "separator" mode to "--pretty=format"
This attached patch introduces a single bit "use_terminator" in "struct
rev_info", which is normally false (i.e. most formats use separator
semantics) but by flipping it to true, you can ask for terminator
semantics just like oneline format does.

The function get_commit_format(), which is what parses "--pretty=" option,
now takes a pointer to "struct rev_info" and updates its commit_format and
use_terminator fields.  It used to return the value of type "enum
cmit_fmt", but all the callers assigned it to rev->commit_format.

There are only two cases the code turns use_terminator on.  Obviously, the
traditional oneline format (--pretty=oneline) is one of them, and the new
case is --pretty=tformat:... that acts like --pretty=format:... but flips
the bit on.

With this, "--pretty=tformat:%H %s" acts like --pretty=oneline.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-10 03:25:03 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
267123b429 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  format-patch: generate MIME header as needed even when there is format.header
2008-03-15 00:09:33 -07:00
Denis Cheng
94c22a5e7b log/show/whatchanged: introduce format.pretty configuration
When running log/show/whatchanged from the command line, the user may
want to use a preferred format without having to pass --pretty=<fmt>
option every time from the command line.  This teaches these three
commands to honor a new configuration variable, format.pretty.

The --pretty option given from the command line will override the
configured format.

The earlier patch fixed the in-tree callers that run these commands
for purposes other than showing the output directly to the end user
(the only other in-tree caller is "git bisect visualize", whose output
directly goes to the end user and should be affected by this patch).

Similar fixes will be needed for end-user scripts that parse the
output from these commands and expect them to be in the default pretty
format.

Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-05 12:06:09 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
859c4fbef5 format-patch: wrap cover-letter's shortlog sensibly
Earlier, overly-long onelines would not be wrapped at all, and indented
with 6 spaces.

Instead, we now wrap around at 72 characters, with a first-line indent
of 2 spaces, and the rest with 4 spaces.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-02 15:27:27 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
5d02294c77 format-patch: use the diff options for the cover letter, too
Earlier, when you called "git format-patch --cover-letter -M", the
diffstat in the cover letter would not inherit the "-M".  Now it does.

While at it, add a few "|| break" statements in the test's loops;
otherwise, breakages inside the loops would not be caught.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-02 15:27:08 -08:00
Daniel Barkalow
39fe578bdc Use diff_tree() directly in making cover letter
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-29 00:00:29 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
42be5cc612 format-patch: remove a leftover debugging message
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-27 22:08:57 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
992221d05e Merge branch 'db/cover-letter'
* db/cover-letter:
  Improve collection of information for format-patch --cover-letter
  Add API access to shortlog
  t4014: Replace sed's non-standard 'Q' by standard 'q'
  Support a --cc=<email> option in format-patch
  Combine To: and Cc: headers
  Fix format.headers not ending with a newline
  Add tests for extra headers in format-patch
  Add a --cover-letter option to format-patch
  Export some email and pretty-printing functions
  Improve message-id generation flow control for format-patch
  Add more tests for format-patch

Conflicts:

	builtin-log.c
	builtin-shortlog.c
	pretty.c
2008-02-27 12:06:41 -08:00
Daniel Barkalow
2bda2cf4f9 Improve collection of information for format-patch --cover-letter
Use the "boundary" feature to find the origin (or find that there are
multiple origins), and use the actual list of commits to pass to
shortlog.

This makes all cover letter include shortlogs, and all cover letters
for series with a single boundary commit include diffstats (if there
are multiple boundary commits it's unclear what would be meaningful as
a diffstat). Note that the single boundary test is empirical, not
theoretical; even a -2 limiting condition will give a diffstat if there's
only one boundary commit in this particular case.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
2008-02-25 21:28:32 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b23b27eb5d Merge branch 'mk/color'
* mk/color:
  Add color.ui variable which globally enables colorization if set
2008-02-20 16:13:56 -08:00
Daniel Barkalow
736cc67dd7 Support a --cc=<email> option in format-patch
When you have particular reviewers you want to sent particular series
to, it's nice to be able to generate the whole series with them as
additional recipients, without configuring them into your general
headers or adding them by hand afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19 21:49:38 -08:00
Daniel Barkalow
3ee79d9f59 Combine To: and Cc: headers
RFC 2822 only permits a single To: header and a single Cc: header, so
we need to turn multiple values of each of these into a list. This
will be particularly significant with a command-line option to add Cc:
headers, where the user can't make sure to configure valid header sets
in any easy way.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19 21:49:38 -08:00
Daniel Barkalow
7d22708b25 Fix format.headers not ending with a newline
Now each value of format.headers will always be treated as a single
valid header, and newlines will be inserted between them as needed.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19 21:49:38 -08:00
Daniel Barkalow
a5a27c79b7 Add a --cover-letter option to format-patch
If --cover-letter is provided, generate a cover letter message before
the patches, numbered 0.

Original patch thanks to Johannes Schindelin

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19 21:49:31 -08:00
Daniel Barkalow
e1a3734621 Improve message-id generation flow control for format-patch
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19 00:56:46 -08:00
Matthias Kestenholz
6b2f2d9805 Add color.ui variable which globally enables colorization if set
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kestenholz <mk@spinlock.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-18 00:00:38 -08:00
Martin Koegler
3d51e1b5b8 check return code of prepare_revision_walk
A failure in prepare_revision_walk can be caused by
a not parseable object.

Signed-off-by: Martin Koegler <mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-17 23:51:12 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
90f5c1864c builtin-log.c: guard config parser from value=NULL
format.suffix expects a string value.  format.numbered is bool plus "auto"

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-11 13:14:25 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
995c45279e builtin-log.c: guard config parser from value=NULL
format.subjectprefix configuration expects a string value.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-11 13:11:36 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
56122ed87a git show <tag>: show the tagger
For commit objects, the Author is shown, so do the equivalent for
tag objects, too.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-19 14:59:11 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
cd1bea918b Merge branch 'jc/shortlog-e'
* jc/shortlog-e:
  shortlog: default to HEAD when the standard input is a tty
  Invert numbers and names in the git-shortlog summary mode.
  shortlog: document -e option
  git-shortlog -e: show e-mail address as well
2007-12-12 17:07:03 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3384a2dfc1 shortlog: default to HEAD when the standard input is a tty
Instead of warning the user that it is expecting git log output from
the standard input (and waiting for the user to type the log from
the keyboard, which is a silly thing to do), default to traverse from
HEAD when there is no rev parameter given and the standard input is
a tty.

This factors out a useful helper "add_head()" from builtin-diff.c to a
more appropriate place revision.c while renaming it to more descriptive
name add_head_to_pending(), as that is what the function is about.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-11 17:01:31 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
774751a8bc Re-fix "builtin-commit: fix --signoff"
An earlier fix to the said commit was incomplete; it mixed up the
meaning of the flag parameter passed to the internal fmt_ident()
function, so this corrects it.

git_author_info() and git_committer_info() can be told to issue a
warning when no usable user information is found, and optionally can be
told to error out.  Operations that actually use the information to
record a new commit or a tag will still error out, but the caller to
leave reflog record will just silently use bogus user information.

Not warning on misconfigured user information while writing a reflog
entry is somewhat debatable, but it is probably nicer to the users to
silently let it pass, because the only information you are losing is who
checked out the branch.

 * git_author_info() and git_committer_info() used to take 1 (positive
   int) to error out with a warning on misconfiguration; this is now
   signalled with a symbolic constant IDENT_ERROR_ON_NO_NAME.

 * These functions used to take -1 (negative int) to warn but continue;
   this is now signalled with a symbolic constant IDENT_WARN_ON_NO_NAME.

 * fmt_ident() function implements the above error reporting behaviour
   common to git_author_info() and git_committer_info().  A symbolic
   constant IDENT_NO_DATE can be or'ed in to the flag parameter to make
   it return only the "Name <email@address.xz>".

 * fmt_name() is a thin wrapper around fmt_ident() that always passes
   IDENT_ERROR_ON_NO_NAME and IDENT_NO_DATE.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-09 00:55:55 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
761e8566cb Merge branch 'lt/rev-list-interactive'
* lt/rev-list-interactive:
  Fix parent rewriting in --early-output
  revision walker: mini clean-up
  Enhance --early-output format
  Add "--early-output" log flag for interactive GUI use
  Simplify topo-sort logic
2007-11-18 16:03:24 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e6cb314c08 Merge branch 'ph/diffopts'
* 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.
2007-11-18 15:50:16 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
7dc0fe3be5 Fix parent rewriting in --early-output
We cannot tell a node that has been checked and found not to be
interesting (which does not have the TREECHANGE flag) from a
node that hasn't been checked if it is interesting or not,
without relying on something else, such as object->parsed.

But an object can get the "parsed" flag for other reasons.
Which means that "TREECHANGE" has the wrong polarity.

This changes the way how the path pruning logic marks an
uninteresting commits.  From now on, we consider a commit
interesting by default, and explicitly mark the ones we decided
to prune.  The flag is renamed to "TREESAME".

Then, this fixes the logic to show the early output with
incomplete pruning.  It basically says "a commit that has
TREESAME set is kind-of-UNINTERESTING", but obviously in a
different way than an outright UNINTERESTING commit.  Until we
parse and examine enough parents to determine if a commit
becomes surely "kind-of-UNINTERESTING", we avoid rewriting
the ancestry so that later rounds can fix things up.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-14 03:59:37 -08:00
Pierre Habouzit
8f67f8aefb Make the diff_options bitfields be an unsigned with explicit masks.
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>
2007-11-11 16:54:15 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
53b2c823f6 revision walker: mini clean-up
This removes the unnecessary indirection of "revs->prune_fn",
since that function is always the same one (or NULL), and there
is in fact not even an abstraction reason to make it a function
(i.e. its not called from some other file and doesn't allow us
to keep the function itself static or anything like that).

It then just replaces it with a bit that says "prune or not",
and if not pruning, every commit gets TREECHANGE.

That in turn means that

 - if (!revs->prune_fn || (flags & TREECHANGE))
 - if (revs->prune_fn && !(flags & TREECHANGE))

just become

 - if (flags & TREECHANGE)
 - if (!(flags & TREECHANGE))

respectively.

Together with adding the "single_parent()" helper function, the "complex"
conditional now becomes

	if (!(flags & TREECHANGE) && rev->dense && single_parent(commit))
		continue;

Also indirection of "revs->dense" checking is thrown away the
same way, because TREECHANGE bit is set appropriately now.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-05 18:19:28 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
252a7c0235 Enhance --early-output format
This makes --early-output a bit more advanced, and actually makes it
generate multiple "Final output:" headers as it updates things
asynchronously. I realize that the "Final output:" line is now illogical,
since it's not really final until it also says "done", but

It now _always_ generates a "Final output:" header in front of any commit
list, and that output header gives you a *guess* at the maximum number of
commits available. However, it should be noted that the guess can be
completely off: I do a reasonable job estimating it, but it is not meant
to be exact.

So what happens is that you may get output like this:

 - at 0.1 seconds:

	Final output: 2 incomplete
	.. 2 commits listed ..

 - half a second later:

	Final output: 33 incomplete
	.. 33 commits listed ..

 - another half a second after that:

	Final output: 71 incomplete
	.. 71 commits listed ..

 - another half second later:

	Final output: 136 incomplete
	.. 100 commits listed: we hit the --early-output limit, and
	.. will only output 100 commits, and after this you'll not
	.. see an "incomplete" report any more since you got as much
	.. early output as you asked for!

 - .. and then finally:

	Final output: 73106 done
	.. all the commits ..

The above is a real-life scenario on my current kernel tree after having
flushed all the caches.

Tested with the experimental gitk patch that Paul sent out, and by looking
at the actual log output (and verifying that my commit count guesses
actually match real life fairly well).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-05 14:28:53 -08:00
Brian Gernhardt
49604a4d62 format-patch: Add configuration and off switch for --numbered
format.numbered is a tri-state variable.  Boolean values enable or
disable numbering by default and "auto" enables number when outputting
more than one patch.

--no-numbered (short: -N) will disable numbering.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-04 01:26:30 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
cdcefbc971 Add "--early-output" log flag for interactive GUI use
This adds support for "--early-output[=n]" as a flag to the "git log"
family of commands.  This allows GUI programs to state that they want to
get some output early, in order to be able to show at least something
quickly, even if the full output may take longer to generate.

If no count is specified, a default count of a hundred commits will be
used, although the actual numbr of commits output may be smaller
depending on how many commits were actually found in the first tenth of
a second (or if *everything* was found before that, in which case no
early output will be provided, and only the final list is made
available).

When the full list is generated, there will be a "Final output:" string
prepended to it, regardless of whether any early commits were shown or
not, so that the consumer can always know the difference between early
output and the final list.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-04 01:54:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4593fb8405 format-patch -s: add MIME encoding header if signer's name requires so
When the body of the commit log message contains a non-ASCII character,
format-patch correctly emitted the encoding header to mark the resulting
message as such.  However, if the original message was fully ASCII, the
command line switch "-s" was given to add a new sign-off, and
the signer's name was not ASCII only, the resulting message would have
contained non-ASCII character but was not marked as such.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-01 17:18:39 -07:00
Pierre Habouzit
182af8343c Use xmemdupz() in many places.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-18 17:42:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
39bd2eb56a Merge branch 'master' into ph/strbuf
* master: (94 commits)
  Fixed update-hook example allow-users format.
  Documentation/git-svn: updated design philosophy notes
  t/t4014: test "am -3" with mode-only change.
  git-commit.sh: Shell script cleanup
  preserve executable bits in zip archives
  Fix lapsus in builtin-apply.c
  git-push: documentation and tests for pushing only branches
  git-svnimport: Use separate arguments in the pipe for git-rev-parse
  contrib/fast-import: add perl version of simple example
  contrib/fast-import: add simple shell example
  rev-list --bisect: Bisection "distance" clean up.
  rev-list --bisect: Move some bisection code into best_bisection.
  rev-list --bisect: Move finding bisection into do_find_bisection.
  Document ls-files --with-tree=<tree-ish>
  git-commit: partial commit of paths only removed from the index
  git-commit: Allow partial commit of file removal.
  send-email: make message-id generation a bit more robust
  git-apply: fix whitespace stripping
  git-gui: Disable native platform text selection in "lists"
  apply --index-info: fall back to current index for mode changes
  ...
2007-09-18 17:42:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8419d2ee9b git-format-patch --in-reply-to: accept <message@id> with angle brackets
This will allow RFC-literate users to say:

	format-patch --in-reply-to='<message.id@site.name>'

without forcing them to strip the surrounding angle brackets
like this:

	format-patch --in-reply-to='message.id@site.name'

We accept both forms, and the latter gets necessary < and >
around it as before.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-14 00:49:12 -07:00
Pierre Habouzit
674d172730 Rework pretty_print_commit to use strbufs instead of custom buffers.
Also remove the "len" parameter, as:
  (1) it was used as a max boundary, and every caller used ~0u
  (2) we check for final NUL no matter what, so it doesn't help for speed.

  As a result most of the pp_* function takes 3 arguments less, and we need
a lot less local variables, this makes the code way more readable, and
easier to extend if needed.

  This patch also fixes some spacing and cosmetic issues.

  This patch also fixes (as a side effect) a memory leak intoruced in
builtin-archive.c at commit df4a394f (fmt was xmalloc'ed and not free'd)

Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-10 12:49:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8a1d076e21 "format-patch --root rev" is the way to show everything.
We used to trigger the special case "things not in origin"
semantics only when one and only one positive ref is given, and
no number (e.g. "git format-patch -4 origin") was specified, and
used the general revision range semantics for everything else.

This narrows the special case a bit more, by making:

	git format-patch --root this_version

to show everything that leads to the named commit.

More importantly, document the two different semantics better.
The generic revision range semantics came later and bolted on
without being clearly documented.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-28 00:38:48 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
170c04383b Porcelain level "log" family should recurse when diffing.
Most notably, "git log --name-status" stopped at top level
directory changes without "-r" option.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-28 00:10:21 -07:00
Alex Riesen
d54276f207 Handle format.subjectprefix for every command which accepts --pretty
Because the --pretty can be given as --pretty=email which historically produced
mails with patches. IOW, exactly what git-format-patch does.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-04 12:39:58 -07:00
Adam Roben
dbd2144736 format-patch: Add format.subjectprefix config option
This change lets you use the format.subjectprefix config option to override the
default subject prefix.

Signed-off-by: Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-02 21:05:45 -07:00
Jim Meyering
f57882505e git-log: detect dup and fdopen failure
This defines xdup() and xfdopen() in git-compat-util.h to give
us error-catching variants of them without cluttering the code
too much.

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-27 21:02:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
750f7b668f Finally implement "git log --follow"
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>
2007-06-22 23:37:11 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
80583c0ef6 Lift 16kB limit of log message output
Traditionally we had 16kB limit when formatting log messages for
output, because it was easier to arrange for the caller to have
a reasonably big buffer and pass it down without ever worrying
about reallocating.

This changes the calling convention of pretty_print_commit() to
lift this limit.  Instead of the buffer and remaining length, it
now takes a pointer to the pointer that points at the allocated
buffer, and another pointer to the location that stores the
allocated length, and reallocates the buffer as necessary.

To support the user format, the error return of interpolate()
needed to be changed.  It used to return a bool telling "Ok the
result fits", or "Sorry, I had to truncate it".  Now it returns
0 on success, and returns the size of the buffer it wants in
order to fit the whole result.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-13 00:41:21 -07:00