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c.shoemaker@cox.net
59df2a11fe Minor clarifications in diffcore documentation
Signed-off-by: Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-28 22:21:35 -07:00
c.shoemaker@cox.net
1cb7f22e5c Remove -r from common diff options documentation in one more place
Signed-off-by: Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-28 22:21:32 -07:00
c.shoemaker@cox.net
0363ecf641 update usage string for git-commit.sh
Signed-off-by: Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-28 22:21:29 -07:00
c.shoemaker@cox.net
f9362de961 git-push.sh: Retain cuteness, add helpfulness.
Signed-off-by: Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-28 22:21:27 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
af13cdf298 Be more careful about reference parsing
This does two things:

 - we don't allow "." and ".." as components of a refname. Thus get_sha1()
   will not accept "./refname" as being the same as "refname" any more.

 - git-rev-parse stops doing revision translation after seeing a pathname,
   to match the brhaviour of all the tools (once we see a pathname,
   everything else will also be parsed as a pathname).

Basically, if you did

	git log *

and "gitk" was somewhere in the "*", we don't want to replace the filename
"gitk" with the SHA1 of the branch with the same name.

Of course, if there is any change of ambiguity, you should always use "--"
to make it explicit what are filenames and what are revisions, but this
makes the normal cases sane. The refname rule also means that instead of
the "--", you can do the same thing we're used to doing with filenames
that start with a slash: use "./filename" instead, and now it's a
filename, not an option (and not a revision).

So "git log ./*.c" is now actually a perfectly valid thing to do, even if
the first C-file might have the same name as a branch.

Trivial test:

	git-rev-parse gitk ./gitk gitk

should output something like

	9843c3074d
	./gitk
	gitk

where the "./gitk" isn't seen as a revision, and the second "gitk" is a
filename simply because we've seen filenames already, and thus stopped
doing revision parsing.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-28 14:25:05 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
41f222e87a Be marginally more careful about removing objects
The git philosophy when it comes to disk accesses is "Laugh in the face of
danger".

Notably, since we never modify an existing object, we don't really care
that deeply about flushing things to disk, since even if the machine
crashes in the middle of a git operation, you can never really have lost
any old work. At most, you'd need to figure out the proper heads (which
git-fsck-objects can do for you) and re-do the operation.

However, there's two exceptions to this: pruning and repacking. Those
operations will actually _delete_ old objects that they know about in
other ways (ie that they just repacked, or that they have found in other
places).

However, since they actually modify old state, we should thus be a bit
more careful about them. If the machine crashes and the duplicate new
objects haven't been flushed to disk, you can actually be in trouble.

This is trivially stupid about it by calling "sync" before removing the
objects. Not very smart, but we're talking about special operations than
are usually done once a week if that.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-28 14:25:02 -07:00
Chris Shoemaker
50b8e355b6 Documentation changes to recursive option for git-diff-tree
Update docs and usages regarding '-r' recursive option for git-diff-tree.
Remove '-r' from common diff options, mention it only for git-diff-tree.
Remove one extraneous use of '-r' with git-diff-files in get-merge.sh.
Sync the synopsis and usage string for git-diff-tree.

Signed-off-by: Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-28 13:37:38 -07:00
Pavel Roskin
f07a524195 fix testsuite to tolerate spaces in path
This patch allows the testsuite to run properly when the full path to
the git sources contains spaces or other symbols that need to be quoted.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-28 02:59:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a77a922212 Document git-patch-id a bit better.
Pavel Roskin wondered what the SHA1 output at the beginning of
git-diff-tree was about.  The only consumer of that information
so far is this git-patch-id command, which was inadequately
documented.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-28 02:39:56 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
6d0de319d6 Add more generated files to .gitignore
git-name-rev, git-mv and git-shell are recent additions to git.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-28 02:15:18 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
a60d2d8f2d Link git-name-rev and git-symbolic-ref from the main git page
According to my checks, these were the only commands not yet linked.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-28 02:15:14 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9106c097ad Create object subdirectories on demand (phase II)
This removes the unoptimization.  The previous round does not mind
missing fan-out directories, but still makes sure they exist, lest
older versions choke on a repository created/packed by it.

This round does not play that nicely anymore -- empty fan-out
directories are not created by init-db, and will stay removed by
prune-packed.  The prune command also removes empty fan-out directories.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-28 02:01:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c1aaa5d9ea Merge branch 'js-fat' 2005-10-27 00:15:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5ef1862ad4 Merge branch 'lt-dense' 2005-10-27 00:15:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1301c6eb41 Merge http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/gitk/gitk 2005-10-27 00:14:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
8b7e5d76e8 [PATCH] Make "gitk" work better with dense revlists
To generate the diff for a commit, gitk used to do

	git-diff-tree -p -C $p $id

(and same thing to generate filenames, except using just "-r" there) which
does actually generate the diff from the parent to the $id, exactly like
it meant to do.

However, that really sucks with --dense, where the "parent" information
has all been rewritten to point to the previous commit. The diff actually
works exactly right, but now it's the diff of the _whole_ sequence of
commits all the way to the previous commit that last changed the file(s)
that we are looking at.

And that's really not what we want 99.9% of the time, even if it may be
perfectly sensible. Not only will the diff not actually match the commit
message, but it will usually be _huge_, and all of it will be totally
uninteresting to us, since we were only interested in a particular set of
files.

It also doesn't match what we do when we write the patch to a file.

So this makes gitk just show the diff of _that_ commit.

We might even want to have some way to limit the diff to only the
filenames we're interested in, but it's often nice to see what else
changed at the same time, so that's secondary.

The merge diff handling is left alone, although I think that should also
be changed to only look at what that _particular_ merge did, not what it
did when compared to the faked-out parents.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-10-27 16:01:15 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
19a7e7151d git-rev-list: do not forget non-commit refs
What happens is that the new logic decides that if it can't look up a
commit reference (ie "get_commit_reference()" returns NULL), the thing
must be a pathname.

Fair enough.

But wrong.

The thing is, it may be a perfectly fine ref that _isn't_ a commit. In
git, you have a tag that points to your PGP key, and in the kernel, I have
a tag that points to a tree (and a direct ref that points to that tree
too, for that matter).

So the rule is (as for all the other programs that mix revs and pathnames)
not that we only accept commit references, but _any_ valid object ref.

If the object then isn't a commit ref, git-rev-list will either ignore it,
or add it to the list of non-commit objects (if using "--objects").

The solution is to move the "get_sha1()" out of get_commit_reference(),
and into the callers. In fact, we already _have_ the SHA1 in the case of
the handle_all() loop, since for_each_ref() will have done it for us, so
this is the correct thing to do anyway.

This patch (on top of the original one) does exactly that.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-26 16:49:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
7b34c2fae0 git-rev-list: make --dense the default (and introduce "--sparse")
This actually does three things:

 - make "--dense" the default for git-rev-list. Since dense is a no-op if
   no filenames are given, this doesn't actually change any historical
   behaviour, but it's logically the right default (if we want to prune on
   filenames, do it fully. The sparse "merge-only" thing may be useful,
   but it's not what you'd normally expect)

 - make "git-rev-parse" show the default revision control before it shows
   any pathnames.

   This was a real bug, but nobody would ever have noticed, because
   the default thing tends to only make sense for git-rev-list, and
   git-rev-list didn't use to take pathnames.

 - it changes "git-rev-list" to match the other commands that take a mix
   of revisions and filenames - it no longer requires the "--" before
   filenames (although you still need to do it if a filename could be
   confused with a revision name, eg "gitk" in the git archive)

This all just makes for much more pleasant and obvous usage. Just doing a

	gitk t/

does the obvious thing: it will show the history as it concerns the "t/"
subdirectory.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-26 16:49:38 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
e24317b4d0 Test in git-init-db if the filemode can be trusted
... and if not, write an appropriate .git/config. Of course, that happens
only if no config file was yet created (by a template or a hook).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-26 16:48:26 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
bd321bcc51 Add git-name-rev
git-name-rev tries to find nice symbolic names for commits. It does so by
walking the commits from the refs. When the symbolic name is ambiguous, the
following heuristic is applied: Try to avoid too many ~'s, and if two ambiguous
names have the same count of ~'s, take the one whose last number is smaller.

With "--tags", the names are derived only from tags.

With "--stdin", the stdin is parsed, and after every sha1 for which a name
could be found, the name is appended. (Try "git log | git name-rev --stdin".)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-26 16:31:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f3123c4ab3 pack-objects: Allow use of pre-generated pack.
git-pack-objects can reuse pack files stored in $GIT_DIR/pack-cache
directory, when a necessary pack is found.  This is hopefully useful
when upload-pack (called from git-daemon) is expected to receive
requests for the same set of objects many times (e.g full cloning
request of any project, or updates from the set of heads previous day
to the latest for a slow moving project).

Currently git-pack-objects does *not* keep pack files it creates for
reusing.  It might be useful to add --update-cache option to it,
which would allow it store pack files it created in the pack-cache
directory, and prune rarely used ones from it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-26 12:37:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
7ebb6fcafe Fix what to do and how to detect when hardlinking fails
Recent FAT workaround caused compilation trouble on OpenBSD;
different platforms use different error codes when we try to
hardlink the temporary file to its final location.  Existing
Coda hack also checks its own error code, but the thing is,
the case we care about is if link failed for a reason other
than that the final file has already existed (which would be
normal, or it could mean collision).  So just check the error
code against EEXIST.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-26 11:58:24 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
b5c367f75c Fix cloning (memory corruption)
upload-pack would set create_full_pack=1 if nr_has==0, but would ask later
if nr_needs<MAX_NEEDS. If that proves true, it would ignore create_full_pack,
and arguments would be written into unreserved memory.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-26 11:52:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
565ebbf79f upload-pack: tighten request validation.
This makes sure what the other end asks for are among what we
offered to give them.  Otherwise we would end up running
git-rev-list with 20-byte nonsense, only to find it either die
(because the object was not found) or waste time (because we
ended up serving that phony 'client').

Also avoid wasting needs_sha1 pool to record duplicates, and
detect cloning requests better.

[this used to be on top of Johannes fetch-pack enhancements,
 which we are rewinding it for further testing for now, so
 the commit is rebased.]

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-25 23:53:28 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
9e48b38999 Work around missing hard links on FAT formatted media
FAT -- like Coda -- does not like cross-directory hard links. To be
precise, FAT does not like links at all. But links are not needed either.
So get rid of them.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-25 23:49:43 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
303958dc42 create_symref: if symlink fails, fall back to writing a "symbolic ref"
There are filesystems out there which do not understand symlinks, even if
the OS is perfectly capable of writing them. So, do not fail right away,
but try to write a symbolic ref first. If that fails, you can die().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-25 23:46:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f89ad67fb0 Add [v]iew patch in git-am interactive.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-25 23:43:59 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
271440e3b6 git-am: make it easier after fixing up an unapplicable patch.
Instead of having the user to edit the mail message, let the hand merge
result stored in .dotest/patch and continue, which is easier to manage.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-25 23:35:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
129adf4d66 git-rev-list: fix "--dense" flag
Right now --dense will _always_ show the root commit. I didn't do the
logic that does the diff against an empty tree. I was lazy.

This patch does that.  The first round was incorrect but 
this patch is even slightly tested, and might do a better job.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-25 22:53:24 -07:00
Petr Baudis
8548ea8ded Add some missing commands to the git.txt commands list
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-25 22:51:39 -07:00
Petr Baudis
f6ab5bb265 Add usage string to git-update-index
This patch adds usage string to git-update-index, can be printed by the -h
or --help parameter.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-25 22:51:18 -07:00
Petr Baudis
d43367af55 Documentation for git-shell
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-25 22:51:13 -07:00
Josef Weidendorfer
05ff5649a4 Check another error condition in git-mv
When moving multiple files at once, it can happen that
files get the same target name, like in

	git-mv a/foo b/foo destdir

Both a/foo and b/foo target destdir/foo.

Signed-off-by: Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-25 22:50:49 -07:00
Randal L. Schwartz
979e32fa14 fix daemon.c to compile on OpenBSD
I can confirm that the following patch lets the current origin
compile on OpenBSD.  If you could apply this until you sort out the
rest of the namespace issue, I would be happy.  Thanks.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-25 17:37:59 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
af2d3aa4d8 Revert recent fetch-pack/upload-pack updates.
Let's have it simmer a bit longer in the proposed updates branch
and shake the problems out.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-25 14:55:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7efc8e4350 upload-pack: fix thinko in common-commit finder code.
The code to check if we have the object the other side has was bogus
(my fault).

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-24 15:13:38 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
40a1046249 git-fetch-pack: Implement client part of the multi_ack extension
This patch concludes the series, which makes
git-fetch-pack/git-upload-pack negotiate a potentially better set of
common revs. It should make a difference when fetching from a repository
with a few branches.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-24 15:13:37 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
69779a562a git-fetch-pack: Do not use git-rev-list
The code used to call git-rev-list to enumerate the local revisions. A
disadvantage of that method was that git-rev-list, lacking a control apart
from the command line, would happily enumerate ancestors of acknowledged
common commits, which was just taking unnecessary bandwidth.

Therefore, do not use git-rev-list on the fetching side, but rather
construct the list on the go. Send the revisions starting from the local
heads, ignoring the revisions known to be common.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-24 15:13:37 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
0f8fdc3958 git-upload-pack: Support sending multiple ACK messages
The current fetch/upload protocol works like this:

- client sends revs it wants to have via "want" messages
- client sends a flush message (message with len 0)
- client sends revs it has via "have" messages
- after one window (32 revs), a flush is sent
- after each subsequent window, a flush is sent, and an ACK/NAK is received.
        (NAK means that server does not have any of the transmitted revs;
         ACK sends also the sha1 of the rev server has)
 - when the first ACK is received, client sends "done", and does not expect
        any further messages

One special case, though:

- if no ACK is received (only NAK's), and client runs out of revs to send,
        "done" is sent, and server sends just one more "NAK"

A smarter scheme, which actually has a chance to detect more than one
common rev, would be to send more than just one ACK. This patch implements
the server side of the following extension to the protocol:

- client sends at least one "want" message with "multi_ack" appended, like

        "want 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890 multi_ack"

- if the server understands that extension, it will send ACK messages for all
        revs it has, not just the first one

- server appends "continue" to the ACK messages like

        "ACK 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890 continue"

        until it has MAX_HAS-1 revs. In this manner, client knows when to
        stop sending revs by checking for the substring "continue" (and
        further knows that server understands multi_ack)

In this manner, the protocol stays backwards compatible, since both client
must send "want ... multi_ack" and server must answer with "ACK ...
continue" to enable the extension.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-24 15:13:37 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
794f9fe7db git-upload-pack: More efficient usage of the has_sha1 array
This patch is based on Junio's proposal. It marks parents of common revs
so that they do not clutter up the has_sha1 array.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-24 15:13:36 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
35eb2d3641 Add git-shell.
This adds a very git specific restricted shell, that can be
added to /etc/shells and set to the pw_shell in the /etc/passwd
file, to give users ability to push into repositories over ssh
without giving them full interactive shell acount.

[jc: I updated Linus' patch to match what the current sq_quote()
 does.]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-24 15:12:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
38cc7ab814 Clarify git status output.
What we list as "Ignored files" are not "ignored".  Rather, it
is the list of "not listed in the to-be-ignored files, but
exists -- you may be forgetting to add them".

Pointed out by Daniel.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-24 15:11:47 -07:00
Andreas Ericsson
7744f3b888 Require zlib >= 1.2 for RPM.
git-update-index requires zlib >= 1.2, which introduced the *Bound
functions.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-24 03:23:46 -07:00
Josef Weidendorfer
1114b26e8f Add git-mv
It supersedes git-rename by adding functionality to move multiple
files, directories or symlinks into another directory.  It also
provides according documentation.

The implementation renames multiple files, using the arguments from
the command line to produce an array of sources and destinations.  In
a first pass, all requested renames are checked for errors, and
overwriting of existing files is only allowed with '-f'.  The actual
renaming is done in a second pass.  This ensures that any error
condition is checked before anything is changed.

Signed-off-by: Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-23 17:25:08 -07:00
Petr Baudis
e2029eb963 Silence confusing and false-positive curl error message
git-http-fetch spits out curl 404 error message when unable to fetch an object,
but that's confusing since no error really happened and the object is usually
found in a pack it tries right after that. And if the object still cannot be
retrieved, it will say another error message anyway. OTOH other HTTP errors
(403 etc) are likely fatal and the user should be still informed about them.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-23 11:49:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8ac3a61f59 Merge branch 'fixes' 2005-10-23 01:20:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
79778e4696 git-show-branch: Fix off-by-one error.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-23 01:19:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1b9e059d35 git-rev-list: add "--dense" flag
This is what the recent git-rev-list changes have all been gearing up for.

When we use a path filter to git-rev-list, the new "--dense" flag asks
git-rev-list to compress the history so that it _only_ contains commits
that change files in the path filter.  It also rewrites the parent
information so that tools like "gitk" will see the result as a dense
history tree.

For example, on the current kernel archive:

	[torvalds@g5 linux]$ git-rev-list HEAD | wc -l
	9904
	[torvalds@g5 linux]$ git-rev-list HEAD -- kernel | wc -l
	5442
	[torvalds@g5 linux]$ git-rev-list --dense HEAD -- kernel | wc -l
	356

which shows that while we have almost ten thousand commits, we can prune
down the work to slightly more than half by only following the merges
that are interesting. But further, we can then compress the history to
just 356 entries that actually make changes to the kernel subdirectory.

To see this in action, try something like

	gitk --dense -- gitk

to see just the history that affects gitk.  Or, to show that true
parallel development still remains parallel, do

	gitk --dense -- daemon.c

which shows some parallel commits in the current git tree.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-22 22:49:52 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
cf4845441c Teach git-rev-list to follow just a specified set of files
This is the first cut at a git-rev-list that knows to ignore commits that
don't change a certain file (or set of files).

NOTE! For now it only prunes _merge_ commits, and follows the parent where
there are no differences in the set of files specified. In the long run,
I'd like to make it re-write the straight-line history too, but for now
the merge simplification is much more fundamentally important (the
rewriting of straight-line history is largely a separate simplification
phase, but the merge simplification needs to happen early if we want to
optimize away unnecessary commit parsing).

If all parents of a merge change some of the files, the merge is left as
is, so the end result is in no way guaranteed to be a linear history, but
it will often be a lot /more/ linear than the full tree, since it prunes
out parents that didn't matter for that set of files.

As an example from the current kernel:

	[torvalds@g5 linux]$ git-rev-list HEAD | wc -l
	9885
	[torvalds@g5 linux]$ git-rev-list HEAD -- Makefile | wc -l
	4084
	[torvalds@g5 linux]$ git-rev-list HEAD -- drivers/usb | wc -l
	5206

and you can also use 'gitk' to more visually see the pruning of the
history tree, with something like

	gitk -- drivers/usb

showing a simplified history that tries to follow the first parent in a
merge that is the parent that fully defines drivers/usb/.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-22 22:49:52 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ac1b3d1248 Split up tree diff functions into tree-diff.c library
This makes the tree diff functionality independent of the "git-diff-tree"
program, by splitting the core functionality up into a library file.

This will be needed for when we teach git-rev-list to only follow a
specified set of pathnames, rather than the global revision history.

Most of it is a fairly straightforward code move, but it also involves
some calling convention cleanup, and moving some of the static variables
from diff-tree.c into the options structure.

The actual tree change callback routines also become paramterized by the
diff_options structure, allowing the library functionality to do something
else than just show the diff on stdout.

Right now the only user of this functionality remains git-diff-tree
itself.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-22 22:49:51 -07:00