diff-highlight: avoid highlighting combined diffs

The algorithm in diff-highlight only understands how to look
at two sides of a diff; it cannot correctly handle combined
diffs with multiple preimages. Often highlighting does not
trigger at all for these diffs because the line counts do
not match up.  E.g., if we see:

  - ours
   -theirs
  ++resolved

we would not bother highlighting; it naively looks like a
single line went away, and then a separate hunk added
another single line.

But of course there are exceptions. E.g., if the other side
deleted the line, we might see:

  - ours
  ++resolved

which looks like we dropped " ours" and added "+resolved".
This is only a small highlighting glitch (we highlight the
space and the "+" along with the content), but it's also the
tip of the iceberg. Even if we learned to find the true
content here (by noticing we are in a 3-way combined diff
and marking _two_ characters from the front of the line as
uninteresting), there are other more complicated cases where
we really do need to handle a 3-way hunk.

Let's just punt for now; we can recognize combined diffs by
the presence of extra "@" symbols in the hunk header, and
treat them as non-diff content.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit is contained in:
Jeff King 2016-08-31 01:05:38 -04:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 1b5290b125
commit 3dbfe2b8ae
2 changed files with 38 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ $SIG{PIPE} = 'DEFAULT';
while (<>) {
if (!$in_hunk) {
print;
$in_hunk = /^$GRAPH*$COLOR*\@/;
$in_hunk = /^$GRAPH*$COLOR*\@\@ /;
}
elsif (/^$GRAPH*$COLOR*-/) {
push @removed, $_;

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@ -256,4 +256,41 @@ test_expect_success 'diff-highlight works with the --graph option' '
test_cmp graph.exp graph.act
'
# Most combined diffs won't meet diff-highlight's line-number filter. So we
# create one here where one side drops a line and the other modifies it. That
# should result in a diff like:
#
# - modified content
# ++resolved content
#
# which naively looks like one side added "+resolved".
test_expect_success 'diff-highlight ignores combined diffs' '
echo "content" >file &&
git add file &&
git commit -m base &&
>file &&
git commit -am master &&
git checkout -b other HEAD^ &&
echo "modified content" >file &&
git commit -am other &&
test_must_fail git merge master &&
echo "resolved content" >file &&
git commit -am resolved &&
cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
--- a/file
+++ b/file
@@@ -1,1 -1,0 +1,1 @@@
- modified content
++resolved content
EOF
git show -c | "$DIFF_HIGHLIGHT" >actual.raw &&
sed -n "/^---/,\$p" <actual.raw >actual &&
test_cmp expect actual
'
test_done