After starting to edit a working tree file but later when your edit ends
up identical to the original (this can also happen when you ran a
wholesale regexp replace with something like "perl -i" that does not
actually modify many of the paths), "git diff" between the index and the
working tree outputs many "empty" diffs that show "diff --git" headers
and nothing else, because these paths are stat-dirty. While it was a
way to warn the user that the earlier action of the user made the index
ineffective as an optimization mechanism, it was felt too loud for the
purpose of warning even to experienced users, and also resulted in
confusing people new to git.
This replaces the "empty" diffs with a single warning message at the
end. Having many such paths hurts performance, and you can run
"git-update-index --refresh" to update the lstat(2) information recorded
in the index in such a case. "git-status" does so as a side effect, and
that is more familiar to the end-user, so we recommend it to them.
The change affects only "git diff" that outputs patch text, because that
is where the annoyance of too many "empty" diff is most strongly felt,
and because the warning message can be safely ignored by downstream
tools without getting mistaken as part of the patch. For the low-level
"git diff-files" and "git diff-index", the traditional behaviour is
retained.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
This enhances the attributes mechanism so that external programs
meant for existing GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF interface can be specifed
per path.
To configure such a custom diff driver, first define a custom
diff driver in the configuration:
[diff "my-c-diff"]
command = <<your command string comes here>>
Then mark the paths that you want to use this custom driver
using the attribute mechanism.
*.c diff=my-c-diff
The intent of this separation is that the attribute mechanism is
used for specifying the type of the contents, while the
configuration mechanism is used to define what needs to be done
to that type of the contents, which would be specific to both
platform and personal taste.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds the command line option 'quiet' to tell 'git diff-*'
that we are not interested in the actual diff contents but only
want to know if there is any change. This option automatically
turns --exit-code on, and turns off output formatting, as it
does not make much sense to show the first hit we happened to
have found.
The --quiet option is silently turned off (but --exit-code is
still in effect, so is silent output) if postprocessing filters
such as pickaxe and diff-filter are used. For all practical
purposes I do not think of a reason to want to use these filters
and not viewing the diff output.
The backends have not been taught about the option with this patch.
That is a topic for later rounds.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This introduces a new command-line option: --exit-code. The diff
programs will return 1 for differences, return 0 for equality, and
something else for errors.
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When specifying an absolute path, or a relative path pointing outside
the working tree, do not fail, but roll your own diffopt parsing,
and execute a --no-index diff.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
diff sets the exit status to 0 when no changes were found, to 1
when changes were found, and 2 means error.
We imitate this to be able to use "git diff" in the test scripts.
(Actually, keeping in line with the rest of git, -1 is returned
on error, which corresponds to an exit status 255).
To find out if the diff is not empty, a member called
"found_changes" was introduced in struct diff_options, which is
set in builtin_diff() and fn_out_consume().
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
With this flag and given two paths, git-diff-files behaves as a GNU diff
lookalike (plus the git goodies like --check, colour, etc.). This flag
is also available in git-diff. It also works outside of a git repository.
In addition, if git-diff{,-files} is called without revision or stage
parameter, and with exactly two paths at least one of which is not tracked,
the default is --no-index.
So, you can now say
git diff /etc/inittab /etc/fstab
and it actually works!
This also unifies the duplicated argument parsing between cmd_diff_files()
and builtin_diff_files().
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Warning: this changes the semantics.
This makes "git blame" without any positive rev to start digging
from the working tree copy, which is made into a fake commit
whose sole parent is the HEAD.
It also adds --contents <file> option to pretend as if the
working tree copy has the contents of the named file. You can
use '-' to make the command read from the standard input.
If you want the command to start annotating from the HEAD
commit, you need to explicitly give HEAD parameter.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This updates the way diffcore represents an unmerged pair
somewhat. It used to be that entries with mode=0 on both sides
were used to represent an unmerged pair, but now it has an
explicit flag. This is to allow diff-index --cached to report
the entry from the tree when the path is unmerged in the index.
This is used in updating "git reset <tree> -- <path>" to restore
absense of the path in the index from the tree.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It is nicer to let the user know when a commit succeeded all the time,
not only the first time. Also the commit sha1 is much more useful than
the tree sha1 in this case.
This patch also introduces a -q switch to supress this message as well
as the summary of created/deleted files.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The idea is that we are interested in renaming into only one path, so
we do not care about renames that happen elsewhere.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch on top of 'next' makes built-in git-cherry handle root
commits.
It moves the static function log-tree.c::diff_root_tree() to
tree-diff.c and makes it more similar to diff_tree_sha1() by
shuffling around arguments and factoring out the call to
log_tree_diff_flush(). Consequently the name is changed to
diff_root_tree_sha1(). It is a version of diff_tree_sha1() that
compares the empty tree (= root tree) against a single 'real' tree.
This function is then used in get_patch_id() to compute patch IDs
for initial commits instead of SEGFAULTing, as the current code
does if confronted with parentless commits.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* jc/diff-stat:
diff --stat: ensure at least one '-' for deletions, and one '+' for additions
diff --stat=width[,name-width]: allow custom diffstat output width.
diff --stat: color output.
diff --stat: allow custom diffstat output width.
This adds two parameters to "diff --stat".
. --stat-width=72 tells that the page should fit on 72-column output.
. --stat-name-width=30 tells that the filename part is limited
to 30 columns.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds DIFF_WHITESPACE color class (default = reverse red) to
colored diff output to let you catch common whitespace errors.
- trailing whitespaces at the end of line
- a space followed by a tab in the indent
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Users can request the DIFF_FORMAT_CALLBACK output format to get a callback
consisting of the whole diff_queue_struct.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
With this option, the changed words are shown inline. For example,
if a file containing "This is foo" is changed to "This is bar", the diff
will now show "This is " in plain text, "foo" in red, and "bar" in green.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When paging through the output of git-whatchanged, the color cues help to
visually navigate within a diff. However, it is difficult to notice when a
new commit starts, because the commit and log are shown in the "normal"
color. This patch colorizes the 'commit' line, customizable through
diff.colors.commit and defaulting to yellow.
As a side effect, some of the diff color engine (slot enum, get_color) has
become accessible outside of diff.c.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The Porcelainish has become so much usable as the UI that there
is not much reason people should be using the core programs by
hand anymore. At this point we are better off making the
behaviour of the core programs predictable by keeping them
unaffected by the configuration variables. Otherwise they will
become very hard to use as reliable building blocks.
For example, "git-commit -a" internally uses git-diff-files to
figure out the set of paths that need to be updated in the
index, and we should never allow diff.renames that happens to be
in the configuration to interfere (or slow down the process).
The UI level configuration such as showing renamed diff and
coloring are still honored by the Porcelainish ("git log" family
and "git diff"), but not by the core anymore.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Add new item text to struct diff_options.
If set then do not try to detect binary files.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Feder <sf@b-i-t.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* th/diff:
builtin-diff: turn recursive on when defaulting to --patch format.
t4013: note improvements brought by the new output code.
t4013: add format-patch tests.
format-patch: fix diff format option implementation
combine-diff.c: type sanity.
t4013 test updates for new output code.
Fix some more diff options changes.
Fix diff-tree -s
log --raw: Don't descend into subdirectories by default
diff-tree: Use ---\n as a message separator
Print empty line between raw, stat, summary and patch
t4013: add more tests around -c and --cc
whatchanged: Default to DIFF_FORMAT_RAW
Don't xcalloc() struct diffstat_t
Add msg_sep to diff_options
DIFF_FORMAT_RAW is not default anymore
Set default diff output format after parsing command line
Make --raw option available for all diff commands
Merge with_raw, with_stat and summary variables to output_format
t4013: add tests for diff/log family output options.
Add msg_sep variable to struct diff_options. msg_sep is printed after
commit message. Default is "\n", format-patch sets it to "---\n".
This also removes the second argument from show_log() because all
callers derived it from the first argument:
show_log(rev, rev->loginfo, ...
Signed-off-by: Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
DIFF_FORMAT_* are now bit-flags instead of enumerated values.
Signed-off-by: Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Call it like this:
unsigned char id[20];
if (diff_flush_patch_id(diff_options, id))
printf("And the patch id is: %s\n", sha1_to_hex(id));
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds -b (--ignore-space-change) and -w (--ignore-all-space) flags to
diff. The main part of the patch is teaching libxdiff about it.
[jc: renamed xdl_line_match() to xdl_recmatch() since the former is used
for different purposes in xpatchi.c which is in the parts of the upstream
source we do not use.]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch is a slightly adjusted version of Junio's patch:
http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0604/19354.html
However, instead of using a config variable, this patch makes it available
as a diff option.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch touches a couple of files, because it adds options to print a
custom text just after the subject of a commit, and just after the
diffstat.
[jc: made "many dashes" used as the boundary leader into a single
variable, to reduce the possibility of later tweaks to miscount the
number of dashes to break it.]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Actually, it is a diff option now, so you can say
git diff --check
to ask if what you are about to commit is a good patch.
[jc: this also would work for fmt-patch, but the point is that
the check is done before making a commit. format-patch is run
from an already created commit, and that is too late to catch
whitespace damaged change.]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Remove the need to pipe git diff through git apply to
get the extended headers summary.
Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We used to parse "-U" and "--unified" as part of the GIT_DIFF_OPTS
environment variable, but strangely enough we would _not_ parse them as
part of the normal diff command line (where we only accepted "-u").
This adds parsing of -U and --unified, both with an optional numeric
argument. So now you can just say
git diff --unified=5
to get a unified diff with a five-line context, instead of having to do
something silly like
GIT_DIFF_OPTS="--unified=5" git diff -u
(that silly format does continue to still work, of course).
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This updates the user interface and generated diff data format.
* "diff --binary" is used to signal that we want an e-mailable
binary patch. It implies --full-index and -p.
* "apply --allow-binary-replacement" acquired a short synonym
"apply --binary".
* After the "GIT binary patch\n" header line there is a token
to record which binary patch mechanism was used, so that we
can extend it later. Currently there are two mechanisms
defined: "literal" and "delta". The former records the
deflated postimage and the latter records the deflated delta
from the preimage to postimage.
For purely implementation convenience, I added the deflated
length after these "literal/delta" tokens (otherwise the
decoding side needs to guess and reallocate the buffer while
inflating). Improvement patches are very welcomed.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
"git diff(n)" without --base, --ours, etc. defaults to --cc,
which usually is the same as -p unless you are in the middle of
a conflicted merge, just like the shell script version.
"git diff(n) blobA blobB path" complains and dies.
"git diff(n) tree0 tree1 tree2...treeN" does combined diff that
shows a merge of tree1..treeN to result in tree0.
Giving "-c" option to any command that defaults to "--cc" turns
off dense-combined flag.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
"diff-index -m" does not mean "do not ignore merges", but means
"pretend missing files match the index".
The previous round tried to address this, but failed because
setup_revisions() ate "-m" flag before the caller had a chance
to intervene.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The second installment to libify diff brothers. The pathname
arguments are checked more strictly than before because we now
use the revision.c::setup_revisions() infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is the first installment to libify diff brothers.
The updated diff-files uses revision.c::setup_revisions()
infrastructure to parse its command line arguments, which means
the pathname arguments are checked more strictly than before.
The tests are adjusted to separate possibly missing paths from
the rest of arguments with double-dashes, to show the kosher
way.
As Linus pointed out, renaming diff.c to diff-lib.c was simply
stupid, so I am renaming it back. The new diff-lib.c is to
contain pieces extracted from diff brothers.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> In the mid-term, I am hoping we can drop the generate_header()
> callchain _and_ the custom code that formats commit log in-core,
> found in cmd_log_wc().
Ok, this was nastier than expected, just because the dependencies between
the different log-printing stuff were absolutely _everywhere_, but here's
a patch that does exactly that.
The patch is not very easy to read, and the "--patch-with-stat" thing is
still broken (it does not call the "show_log()" thing properly for
merges). That's not a new bug. In the new world order it _should_ do
something like
if (rev->logopt)
show_log(rev, rev->logopt, "---\n");
but it doesn't. I haven't looked at the --with-stat logic, so I left it
alone.
That said, this patch removes more lines than it adds, and in particular,
the "cmd_log_wc()" loop is now a very clean:
while ((commit = get_revision(rev)) != NULL) {
log_tree_commit(rev, commit);
free(commit->buffer);
commit->buffer = NULL;
}
so it doesn't get much prettier than this. All the complexity is entirely
hidden in log-tree.c, and any code that needs to flush the log literally
just needs to do the "if (rev->logopt) show_log(...)" incantation.
I had to make the combined_diff() logic take a "struct rev_info" instead
of just a "struct diff_options", but that part is pretty clean.
This does change "git whatchanged" from using "diff-tree" as the commit
descriptor to "commit", and I changed one of the tests to reflect that new
reality. Otherwise everything still passes, and my other tests look fine
too.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
With this option, git prepends a diffstat in front of the patch.
Since I really, really do not know what a diffstat of a combined diff
("merge diff") should look like, the diffstat is not generated for these.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Now, you can say "git diff --stat" (to get an idea how many changes are
uncommitted), or "git log --stat".
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The way tree-diff was set up assumed we would use only one set
of pathspec during the entire life of the program. Move the
pathspec related static variables out to diff_options structure
so that we can filter commits with one set of paths while show
the actual diffs using different set of paths.
I suspect this breaks blame.c, and makes "git log paths..." to
default to the --full-diff, the latter of which is dealt with
the next commit.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Nobody except diff-stages used it -- the callers instead filtered
the input to diffcore themselves. Make diff-stages do that as
well and retire diffcore-pathspec.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
