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Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
9a0a30aa4b strbuf: convenience format functions with \n automatically appended
These functions are helpful when we do not want to expose \n to
translators. For example

    printf("hello world\n");

can be converted to

    printf_ln(_("hello world"));

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-24 14:55:48 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ac1373f1c2 Merge branch 'tr/maint-bundle-long-subject'
* tr/maint-bundle-long-subject:
  t5704: match tests to modern style
  strbuf: improve strbuf_get*line documentation
  bundle: use a strbuf to scan the log for boundary commits
  bundle: put strbuf_readline_fd in strbuf.c with adjustments
2012-02-26 23:05:51 -08:00
Thomas Rast
5e8617f560 bundle: put strbuf_readline_fd in strbuf.c with adjustments
The comment even said that it should eventually go there.  While at
it, match the calling convention and name of the function to the
strbuf_get*line family.  So it now is strbuf_getwholeline_fd.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-22 18:58:16 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
367d20ec6b Merge branch 'jk/credentials'
* jk/credentials:
  t: add test harness for external credential helpers
  credentials: add "store" helper
  strbuf: add strbuf_add*_urlencode
  Makefile: unix sockets may not available on some platforms
  credentials: add "cache" helper
  docs: end-user documentation for the credential subsystem
  credential: make relevance of http path configurable
  credential: add credential.*.username
  credential: apply helper config
  http: use credential API to get passwords
  credential: add function for parsing url components
  introduce credentials API
  t5550: fix typo
  test-lib: add test_config_global variant

Conflicts:
	strbuf.c
2011-12-19 16:05:16 -08:00
Jeff King
c505116b91 strbuf: add strbuf_add*_urlencode
This just follows the rfc3986 rules for percent-encoding
url data into a strbuf.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-12 16:08:27 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
895680f044 fmt-merge-msg: Add contents of merged tag in the merge message
When a contributor asks the integrator to merge her history, a signed tag
can be a good vehicle to communicate the authenticity of the request while
conveying other information such as the purpose of the topic.

E.g. a signed tag "for-linus" can be created, and the integrator can run:

   $ git pull git://example.com/work.git/ for-linus

This would allow the integrator to run "git verify-tag FETCH_HEAD" to
validate the signed tag.

Update fmt-merge-msg so that it pre-fills the merge message template with
the body (but not signature) of the tag object to help the integrator write
a better merge message, in the same spirit as the existing merge.log summary
lines.

The message that comes from GPG signature validation is also included in
the merge message template to help the integrator verify it, but they are
prefixed with "#" to make them comments.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-08 10:36:18 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
fe01ef31b7 Merge branch 'jk/maint-config-param'
* jk/maint-config-param:
  config: use strbuf_split_str instead of a temporary strbuf
  strbuf: allow strbuf_split to work on non-strbufs
  config: avoid segfault when parsing command-line config
  config: die on error in command-line config
  fix "git -c" parsing of values with equals signs
  strbuf_split: add a max parameter
2011-07-19 09:45:21 -07:00
Jeff King
2f1d9e2b93 strbuf: allow strbuf_split to work on non-strbufs
The strbuf_split function takes a strbuf as input, and
outputs a list of strbufs. However, there is no reason that
the input has to be a strbuf, and not an arbitrary buffer.

This patch adds strbuf_split_buf for a length-delimited
buffer, and strbuf_split_str for NUL-terminated strings.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-22 11:24:51 -07:00
Jeff King
28fc3a6857 strbuf_split: add a max parameter
Sometimes when splitting, you only want a limited number of
fields, and for the final field to contain "everything
else", even if it includes the delimiter.

This patch introduces strbuf_split_max, which provides a
"max number of fields" parameter; it behaves similarly to
perl's "split" with a 3rd field.

The existing 2-argument form of strbuf_split is retained for
compatibility and ease-of-use.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-22 11:24:50 -07:00
René Scharfe
7141efab24 strbuf: clarify assertion in strbuf_setlen()
Commit a8f3e2219 introduced the strbuf_grow() call to strbuf_setlen() to
make ensure that there was at least one byte available to write the
mandatory trailing NUL, even for previously unallocated strbufs.

Then b315c5c0 added strbuf_slopbuf for the same reason, only globally for
all uses of strbufs.

Thus the strbuf_grow() call can be removed now.  This avoids readers of
strbuf.h from mistakenly thinking that strbuf_setlen() can be used to
extend a strbuf.

The following assert() needs to be changed to cope with the fact that
sb->alloc can now be zero, which is OK as long as len is also zero.  As
suggested by Junio, use the chance to convert it to a die() with a short
explanatory message.  The pattern of 'die("BUG: ...")' is already used in
strbuf.c.

This was the only assert() in strbuf.[ch], so assert.h doesn't have to be
included anymore either.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-27 10:52:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
17a0299807 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline: do not require bash to run the script
  t8001: check the exit status of the command being tested
  strbuf.h: remove a tad stale docs-in-comment and reference api-doc instead
  Typos: t/README
  Documentation/config.txt: make truth value of numbers more explicit
  git-pack-objects.txt: fix grammatical errors
  parse-remote: replace unnecessary sed invocation
2011-03-30 14:10:41 -07:00
Michael Witten
e0390119b2 strbuf.h: remove a tad stale docs-in-comment and reference api-doc instead
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-30 12:02:50 -07:00
Jeff King
ebeb60900f strbuf: add strbuf_vaddf
In a variable-args function, the code for writing into a strbuf is
non-trivial. We ended up cutting and pasting it in several places
because there was no vprintf-style function for strbufs (which in turn
was held up by a lack of va_copy).

Now that we have a fallback va_copy, we can add strbuf_vaddf, the
strbuf equivalent of vsprintf. And we can clean up the cut and paste
mess.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Improved-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-26 01:06:50 -08:00
Pat Notz
4af3fab06e strbuf.h: fix comment typo
Signed-off-by: Pat Notz <patnotz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-27 10:42:11 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
886932e281 Merge branch 'jc/maint-strbuf-add-fix-doubling'
* jc/maint-strbuf-add-fix-doubling:
  strbuf_addbuf(): allow passing the same buf to dst and src
2010-01-20 14:43:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
0877510ad4 Merge branch 'jk/warn-author-committer-after-commit'
* jk/warn-author-committer-after-commit:
  user_ident_sufficiently_given(): refactor the logic to be usable from elsewhere
  commit.c::print_summary: do not release the format string too early
  commit: allow suppression of implicit identity advice
  commit: show interesting ident information in summary
  strbuf: add strbuf_addbuf_percentquote
  strbuf_expand: convert "%%" to "%"

Conflicts:
	builtin-commit.c
	ident.c
2010-01-20 14:40:12 -08:00
Jeff King
361df5df77 strbuf: add strbuf_addbuf_percentquote
This is handy for creating strings which will be fed to printf() or
strbuf_expand().

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-14 09:25:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
81d2caefed strbuf_addbuf(): allow passing the same buf to dst and src
If sb and sb2 are the same (i.e. doubling the string), the underlying
strbuf_add() can make sb2->buf invalid by calling strbuf_grow(sb) at
the beginning; if realloc(3) done by strbuf_grow() needs to move the
string, strbuf_add() will read from an already freed buffer.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-13 12:12:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
229d810747 strbuf.c: remove unused function
strbuf_tolower() is not used anywhere.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-12 01:06:09 -08:00
Tarmigan Casebolt
28bea9e534 Check the format of more printf-type functions
We already have these checks in many printf-type functions that have
prototypes which are in header files.  Add these same checks to some
more prototypes in header functions and to static functions in .c
files.

cc: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Tarmigan Casebolt <tarmigan+git@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-15 18:24:58 -08:00
Brandon Casey
c7e4f0d78a strbuf: add new function strbuf_getwholeline()
This function is just like strbuf_getline() except it retains the
line-termination character.  This function will be used by the mailinfo
and mailsplit builtins which require the entire line for parsing.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-05 12:13:56 -07:00
Mike Ralphson
3ea3c215c0 Fix typos / spelling in comments
Signed-off-by: Mike Ralphson <mike@abacus.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-22 19:02:12 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a2fab531bb strbuf_check_branch_ref(): a helper to check a refname for a branch
This allows a common calling sequence

	strbuf_branchname(&ref, name);
	strbuf_splice(&ref, 0, 0, "refs/heads/", 11);
	if (check_ref_format(ref.buf))
		die(...);

to be refactored into

	if (strbuf_check_branch_ref(&ref, name))
		die(...);

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-22 23:52:11 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a552de75eb strbuf_branchname(): a wrapper for branch name shorthands
The function takes a user-supplied string that is supposed to be a branch
name, and puts it in a strbuf after expanding possible shorthand notation.

A handful of open coded sequence to do this in the existing code have been
changed to use this helper function.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-22 23:44:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b11b7e13f4 Add generic 'strbuf_readlink()' helper function
It was already what 'git apply' did in read_old_data(), just export it
as a real function, and make it be more generic.

In particular, this handles the case of the lstat() st_size data not
matching the readlink() return value properly (which apparently happens
at least on NTFS under Linux).  But as a result of this you could also
use the new function without even knowing how big the link is going to
be, and it will allocate an appropriately sized buffer.

So we pass in the st_size of the link as just a hint, rather than a
fixed requirement.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-17 13:36:30 -08:00
René Scharfe
9b864e730b add strbuf_expand_dict_cb(), a helper for simple cases
The new callback function strbuf_expand_dict_cb() can be used together
with strbuf_expand() if there is only a small number of placeholders
for static replacement texts.  It expects its dictionary as an array of
placeholder+value pairs as context parameter, terminated by an entry
with the placeholder member set to NULL.

The new helper is intended to aid converting the remaining calls of
interpolate().  strbuf_expand() is smaller, more flexible and can be
used to go faster than interpolate(), so it should replace the latter.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-23 19:55:47 -08:00
Stephan Beyer
7198203ae3 editor.c: Libify launch_editor()
This patch removes exit()/die() calls and builtin-specific messages
from launch_editor(), so that it can be used as a general libgit.a
function to launch an editor.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-25 17:09:38 -07:00
Lukas Sandström
eacd6dc594 Add some useful functions for strbuf manipulation.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-13 14:04:04 -07:00
Lukas Sandström
9b200fd68c Make some strbuf_*() struct strbuf arguments const.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-13 13:59:34 -07:00
Marco Costalba
c3a670de50 Avoid a useless prefix lookup in strbuf_expand()
Currently, the --pretty=format prefix is looked up in a
tight loop in strbuf_expand(), if prefix is found it is then
used as argument for format_commit_item() that does another
search by a switch statement to select the proper operation.

Because the switch statement is already able to discard
unknown matches we don't need the prefix lookup before
to call format_commit_item().

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-09 23:57:08 -08:00
Pierre Habouzit
8babab95af builtin-commit.c: export GIT_INDEX_FILE for launch_editor as well.
The editor program to let the user edit the log message used to
get GIT_INDEX_FILE environment variable pointing at the right
file, but this was lost when git-commit was rewritten in C.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Acked-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-26 09:13:17 -08:00
Kristian Høgsberg
943316e96c Export launch_editor() and make it accept ':' as a no-op editor.
Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-22 17:05:02 -08:00
René Scharfe
91db267ec8 add strbuf_adddup()
Add a new function, strbuf_adddup(), that appends a duplicate of a
part of a struct strbuf to end of the latter.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 02:04:46 -08:00
René Scharfe
cde75e59e1 --pretty=format: on-demand format expansion
Some of the --pretty=format placeholders expansions are expensive to
calculate.  This is made worse by the current code's use of
interpolate(), which requires _all_ placeholders are to be prepared
up front.

One way to speed this up is to check which placeholders are present
in the format string and to prepare only the expansions that are
needed.  That still leaves the allocation overhead of interpolate().

Another way is to use a callback based approach together with the
strbuf library to keep allocations to a minimum and avoid string
copies.  That's what this patch does.  It introduces a new strbuf
function, strbuf_expand().

The function takes a format string, list of placeholder strings,
a user supplied function 'fn', and an opaque pointer 'context'
to tell 'fn' what thingy to operate on.

The function 'fn' is expected to accept a strbuf, a parsed
placeholder string and the 'context' pointer, and append the
interpolated value for the 'context' thingy, according to the
format specified by the placeholder.

Thanks to Pierre Habouzit for his suggestion to use strchrnul() and
the code surrounding its callsite.  And thanks to Junio for most of
this commit message. :)

Here my measurements of most of Paul Mackerras' test cases that
highlighted the performance problem (best of three runs):

(master)
$ time git log --pretty=oneline >/dev/null

real    0m0.390s
user    0m0.340s
sys     0m0.040s

(master)
$ time git log --pretty=raw >/dev/null

real    0m0.434s
user    0m0.408s
sys     0m0.016s

(master)
$ time git log --pretty="format:%H {%P} %ct" >/dev/null

real    0m1.347s
user    0m0.080s
sys     0m1.256s

(interp_find_active -- Dscho)
$ time ./git log --pretty="format:%H {%P} %ct" >/dev/null

real    0m0.694s
user    0m0.020s
sys     0m0.672s

(strbuf_expand -- this patch)
$ time ./git log --pretty="format:%H {%P} %ct" >/dev/null

real    0m0.395s
user    0m0.352s
sys     0m0.028s

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-09 01:30:07 -08:00
Steffen Prohaska
a1f611d5d0 Fix comment in strbuf.h to use correct name strbuf_avail()
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-05 21:09:39 -08:00
Pierre Habouzit
387e7e19d7 strbuf_read_file enhancement, and use it.
* make strbuf_read_file take a size hint (works like strbuf_read)
* use it in a couple of places.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-29 21:26:10 -07:00
Pierre Habouzit
b315c5c081 strbuf change: be sure ->buf is never ever NULL.
For that purpose, the ->buf is always initialized with a char * buf living
in the strbuf module. It is made a char * so that we can sloppily accept
things that perform: sb->buf[0] = '\0', and because you can't pass "" as an
initializer for ->buf without making gcc unhappy for very good reasons.

strbuf_init/_detach/_grow have been fixed to trust ->alloc and not ->buf
anymore.

as a consequence strbuf_detach is _mandatory_ to detach a buffer, copying
->buf isn't an option anymore, if ->buf is going to escape from the scope,
and eventually be free'd.

API changes:
  * strbuf_setlen now always works, so just make strbuf_reset a convenience
    macro.
  * strbuf_detatch takes a size_t* optional argument (meaning it can be
    NULL) to copy the buffer's len, as it was needed for this refactor to
    make the code more readable, and working like the callers.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-29 02:13:33 -07:00
Kristian Høgsberg
6d69b6f6ac Clean up stripspace a bit, use strbuf even more.
Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-27 00:33:33 -07:00
Kristian Høgsberg
a9390b9fce Add strbuf_read_file().
Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-27 00:33:29 -07:00
Pierre Habouzit
45f66f6463 Add strbuf_cmp.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-26 02:27:05 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a8f3e2219c strbuf_setlen(): do not barf on setting length of an empty buffer to 0
strbuf_setlen() expect to be able to NUL terminate the buffer,
but a completely empty strbuf could have an empty buffer with 0
allocation; both the assert() and the assignment for NUL
termination would fail.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-26 02:27:05 -07:00
Pierre Habouzit
c76689df6c strbuf API additions and enhancements.
Add strbuf_remove, change strbuf_insert:
  As both are special cases of strbuf_splice, implement them as such.
  gcc is able to do the math and generate almost optimal code this way.

Add strbuf_swap:
  Exchange the values of its arguments.
  Use it in fast-import.c

Also fix spacing issues in strbuf.h

Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
2007-09-20 23:17:40 -07:00
Pierre Habouzit
e6c019d0b0 Drop strbuf's 'eof' marker, and make read_line a first class citizen.
read_line is now strbuf_getline, and is a first class citizen, it returns 0
when reading a line worked, EOF else.

The ->eof marker was used non-locally by fast-import.c, mimic the same
behaviour using a static int in "read_next_command", that now returns -1 on
EOF, and avoids to call strbuf_getline when it's in EOF state.

Also no longer automagically strbuf_release the buffer, it's counter
intuitive and breaks fast-import in a very subtle way.

Note: being at EOF implies that command_buf.len == 0.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-18 00:55:10 -07:00
Pierre Habouzit
917c9a7133 New strbuf APIs: splice and attach.
* strbuf_splice replace a portion of the buffer with another.
* strbuf_attach replace a strbuf buffer with the given one, that should be
  malloc'ed. Then it enforces strbuf's invariants. If alloc > len, then this
  function has negligible cost, else it will perform a realloc, possibly
  with a cost.

Also some style issues are fixed now.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-16 17:30:03 -07:00
Pierre Habouzit
f1696ee398 Strbuf API extensions and fixes.
* Add strbuf_rtrim to remove trailing spaces.
  * Add strbuf_insert to insert data at a given position.
  * Off-by one fix in strbuf_addf: strbuf_avail() does not counts the final
    \0 so the overflow test for snprintf is the strict comparison. This is
    not critical as the growth mechanism chosen will always allocate _more_
    memory than asked, so the second test will not fail. It's some kind of
    miracle though.
  * Add size extension hints for strbuf_init and strbuf_read. If 0, default
    applies, else:
      + initial buffer has the given size for strbuf_init.
      + first growth checks it has at least this size rather than the
        default 8192.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-10 12:48:24 -07:00
Pierre Habouzit
b449f4cfc9 Rework strbuf API and semantics.
The gory details are explained in strbuf.h. The change of semantics this
patch enforces is that the embeded buffer has always a '\0' character after
its last byte, to always make it a C-string. The offs-by-one changes are all
related to that very change.

  A strbuf can be used to store byte arrays, or as an extended string
library. The `buf' member can be passed to any C legacy string function,
because strbuf operations always ensure there is a terminating \0 at the end
of the buffer, not accounted in the `len' field of the structure.

  A strbuf can be used to generate a string/buffer whose final size is not
really known, and then "strbuf_detach" can be used to get the built buffer,
and keep the wrapping "strbuf" structure usable for further work again.

  Other interesting feature: strbuf_grow(sb, size) ensure that there is
enough allocated space in `sb' to put `size' new octets of data in the
buffer. It helps avoiding reallocating data for nothing when the problem the
strbuf helps to solve has a known typical size.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-06 23:57:44 -07:00
Brian Gerst
bf0f910d1d [PATCH] Kill a bunch of pointer sign warnings for gcc4
- Raw hashes should be unsigned char.
 - String functions want signed char.
 - Hash and compress functions want unsigned char.

Signed-off By: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-18 08:44:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d1df574380 [PATCH] Introduce diff-tree-helper.
This patch introduces a new program, diff-tree-helper.  It reads
output from diff-cache and diff-tree, and produces a patch file.
The diff format customization can be done the same way the
show-diff uses; the same external diff interface introduced by
the previous patch to drive diff from show-diff is used so this
is not surprising.

It is used like the following examples:

   $ diff-cache --cached -z <tree> | diff-tree-helper -z -R paths...
   $ diff-tree -r -z <tree1> <tree2> | diff-tree-helper -z paths...

 - As usual, the use of the -z flag is recommended in the script
   to pass NUL-terminated filenames through the pipe between
   commands.

 - The -R flag is used to generate reverse diff.  It does not
   matter for diff-tree case, but it is sometimes useful to get
   a patch in the desired direction out of diff-cache.

 - The paths parameters are used to restrict the paths that
   appears in the output.  Again this is useful to use with
   diff-cache, which, unlike diff-tree, does not take such paths
   restriction parameters.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-25 18:26:45 -07:00