When submitting a revised a patch series, the --range-diff option embeds
a range-diff in the cover letter showing changes since the previous
version of the patch series. The argument to --range-diff is a simple
revision naming the tip of the previous series, which works fine if the
previous and current versions of the patch series share a common base.
However, it fails if the revision ranges of the old and new versions of
the series are disjoint. To address this shortcoming, extend
--range-diff to also accept an explicit revision range for the previous
series. For example:
git format-patch --cover-letter --range-diff=v1~3..v1 -3 v2
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When submitting a revised version of a patch series, it can be helpful
(to reviewers) to include a summary of changes since the previous
attempt in the form of a range-diff, however, doing so involves manually
copy/pasting the diff into the cover letter.
Add a --range-diff option to automate this process. The argument to
--range-diff specifies the tip of the previous attempt against which to
generate the range-diff. For example:
git format-patch --cover-letter --range-diff=v1 -3 v2
(At this stage, the previous attempt and the patch series being
formatted must share a common base, however, a subsequent enhancement
will make it possible to specify an explicit revision range for the
previous attempt.)
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are a number of very low-level configuration details which need to
be managed precisely to generate a proper range-diff. In particular,
'diff_options' output format, header suppression, indentation, and
dual-color mode must all be set appropriately to ensure proper behavior.
Handle these details locally in the libified range-diff back-end rather
than forcing each caller to have specialized knowledge of these
implementation details, and to avoid duplication as new callers are
added.
While at it, localize these tweaks to be active only while generating
the range-diff, so they don't clobber the caller-provided
'diff_options', which might be used beyond range-diff generation.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The range-diff back-end allows its heuristic to be tweaked via the
"creation factor". git-range-diff, the only client of the back-end,
defaults the factor to 60% (hard-coded in builtin/range-diff.c), but
allows the user to override it with the --creation-factor option.
Publish the default range factor to allow new callers of the range-diff
back-end to default to the same value without duplicating the hard-coded
constant, and to avoid worrying about various callers becoming
out-of-sync if the default ever needs to change.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The actual diffs output by range-diff respect diff_option.file, which
range-diff passes down the call-chain, thus are destination-agnostic.
However, output_pair_header() is hard-coded to emit to 'stdout'. Fix
this by making output_pair_header() respect diff_option.file, as well.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* es/format-patch-interdiff:
format-patch: allow --interdiff to apply to a lone-patch
log-tree: show_log: make commentary block delimiting reusable
interdiff: teach show_interdiff() to indent interdiff
format-patch: teach --interdiff to respect -v/--reroll-count
format-patch: add --interdiff option to embed diff in cover letter
format-patch: allow additional generated content in make_cover_letter()
* js/range-diff: (21 commits)
range-diff: use dim/bold cues to improve dual color mode
range-diff: make --dual-color the default mode
range-diff: left-pad patch numbers
completion: support `git range-diff`
range-diff: populate the man page
range-diff --dual-color: skip white-space warnings
range-diff: offer to dual-color the diffs
diff: add an internal option to dual-color diffs of diffs
color: add the meta color GIT_COLOR_REVERSE
range-diff: use color for the commit pairs
range-diff: add tests
range-diff: do not show "function names" in hunk headers
range-diff: adjust the output of the commit pairs
range-diff: suppress the diff headers
range-diff: indent the diffs just like tbdiff
range-diff: right-trim commit messages
range-diff: also show the diff between patches
range-diff: improve the order of the shown commits
range-diff: first rudimentary implementation
Introduce `range-diff` to compare iterations of a topic branch
...
It *is* a confusing thing to look at a diff of diffs. All too easy is it
to mix up whether the -/+ markers refer to the "inner" or the "outer"
diff, i.e. whether a `+` indicates that a line was added by either the
old or the new diff (or both), or whether the new diff does something
different than the old diff.
To make things easier to process for normal developers, we introduced
the dual color mode which colors the lines according to the commit diff,
i.e. lines that are added by a commit (whether old, new, or both) are
colored in green. In non-dual color mode, the lines would be colored
according to the outer diff: if the old commit added a line, it would be
colored red (because that line addition is only present in the first
commit range that was specified on the command-line, i.e. the "old"
commit, but not in the second commit range, i.e. the "new" commit).
However, this dual color mode is still not making things clear enough,
as we are looking at two levels of diffs, and we still only pick a color
according to *one* of them (the outer diff marker is colored
differently, of course, but in particular with deep indentation, it is
easy to lose track of that outer diff marker's background color).
Therefore, let's add another dimension to the mix. Still use
green/red/normal according to the commit diffs, but now also dim the
lines that were only in the old commit, and use bold face for the lines
that are only in the new commit.
That way, it is much easier not to lose track of, say, when we are
looking at a line that was added in the previous iteration of a patch
series but the new iteration adds a slightly different version: the
obsolete change will be dimmed, the current version of the patch will be
bold.
At least this developer has a much easier time reading the range-diffs
that way.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After using this command extensively for the last two months, this
developer came to the conclusion that even if the dual color mode still
leaves a lot of room for confusion about what was actually changed, the
non-dual color mode is substantially worse in that regard.
Therefore, we really want to make the dual color mode the default.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As pointed out by Elijah Newren, tbdiff has this neat little alignment
trick where it outputs the commit pairs with patch numbers that are
padded to the maximal patch number's width:
1: cafedead = 1: acefade first patch
[...]
314: beefeada < 314: facecab up to PI!
Let's do the same in range-diff, too.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tab completion of `git range-diff` is very convenient, especially
given that the revision arguments to specify the commit ranges to
compare are typically more complex than, say, what is normally passed
to `git log`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The bulk of this patch consists of a heavily butchered version of
tbdiff's README written by Thomas Rast and Thomas Gummerer, lifted from
https://github.com/trast/tbdiff.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When displaying a diff of diffs, it is possible that there is an outer
`+` before a context line. That happens when the context changed between
old and new commit. When that context line starts with a tab (after the
space that marks it as context line), our diff machinery spits out a
white-space error (space before tab), but in this case, that is
incorrect.
Rather than adding a specific whitespace flag that specifically ignores
the first space in the output (and might miss other problems with the
white-space warnings), let's just skip handling white-space errors in
dual color mode to begin with.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When showing what changed between old and new commits, we show a diff of
the patches. This diff is a diff between diffs, therefore there are
nested +/- signs, and it can be relatively hard to understand what is
going on.
With the --dual-color option, the preimage and the postimage are colored
like the diffs they are, and the *outer* +/- sign is inverted for
clarity.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When diffing diffs, it can be quite daunting to figure out what the heck
is going on, as there are nested +/- signs.
Let's make this easier by adding a flag in diff_options that allows
color-coding the outer diff sign with inverted colors, so that the
preimage and postimage is colored like the diff it is.
Of course, this really only makes sense when the preimage and postimage
*are* diffs. So let's not expose this flag via a command-line option for
now.
This is a feature that was invented by git-tbdiff, and it will be used
by `git range-diff` in the next commit, by offering it via a new option:
`--dual-color`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This "color" simply reverts background and foreground. It will be used
in the upcoming "dual color" mode of `git range-diff`, where we will
reverse colors for the -/+ markers and the fragment headers of the
"outer" diff.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Arguably the most important part of `git range-diff`'s output is the
list of commits in the two branches, together with their relationships.
For that reason, tbdiff introduced color-coding that is pretty
intuitive, especially for unchanged patches (all dim yellow, like the
first line in `git show`'s output) vs modified patches (old commit is
red, new commit is green). Let's imitate that color scheme.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These are essentially lifted from https://github.com/trast/tbdiff, with
light touch-ups to account for the command now being named `git
range-diff`.
Apart from renaming `tbdiff` to `range-diff`, only one test case needed
to be adjusted: 11 - 'changed message'.
The underlying reason it had to be adjusted is that diff generation is
sometimes ambiguous. In this case, a comment line and an empty line are
added, but it is ambiguous whether they were added after the existing
empty line, or whether an empty line and the comment line are added
*before* the existing empty line. And apparently xdiff picks a different
option here than Python's difflib.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We are comparing complete, formatted commit messages with patches. There
are no function names here, so stop looking for them.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This not only uses "dashed stand-ins" for "pairs" where one side is
missing (i.e. unmatched commits that are present only in one of the two
commit ranges), but also adds onelines for the reader's pleasure.
This change brings `git range-diff` yet another step closer to
feature parity with tbdiff: it now shows the oneline, too, and indicates
with `=` when the commits have identical diffs.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When showing the diff between corresponding patches of the two branch
versions, we have to make up a fake filename to run the diff machinery.
That filename does not carry any meaningful information, hence tbdiff
suppresses it. So we should, too.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The main information in the `range-diff` view comes from the list of
matching and non-matching commits, the diffs are additional information.
Indenting them helps with the reading flow.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When comparing commit messages, we need to keep in mind that they are
indented by four spaces. That is, empty lines are no longer empty, but
have "trailing whitespace". When displaying them in color, that results
in those nagging red lines.
Let's just right-trim the lines in the commit message, it's not like
trailing white-space in the commit messages are important enough to care
about in `git range-diff`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Just like tbdiff, we now show the diff between matching patches. This is
a "diff of two diffs", so it can be a bit daunting to read for the
beginner.
An alternative would be to display an interdiff, i.e. the hypothetical
diff which is the result of first reverting the old diff and then
applying the new diff.
Especially when rebasing frequently, an interdiff is often not feasible,
though: if the old diff cannot be applied in reverse (due to a moving
upstream), an interdiff can simply not be inferred.
This commit brings `range-diff` closer to feature parity with regard
to tbdiff.
To make `git range-diff` respect e.g. color.diff.* settings, we have
to adjust git_branch_config() accordingly.
Note: while we now parse diff options such as --color, the effect is not
yet the same as in tbdiff, where also the commit pairs would be colored.
This is left for a later commit.
Note also: while tbdiff accepts the `--no-patches` option to suppress
these diffs between patches, we prefer the `-s` (or `--no-patch`) option
that is automatically supported via our use of diff_opt_parse().
And finally note: to support diff options, we have to call
`parse_options()` such that it keeps unknown options, and then loop over
those and let `diff_opt_parse()` handle them. After that loop, we have
to call `parse_options()` again, to make sure that no unknown options
are left.
Helped-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch lets `git range-diff` use the same order as tbdiff.
The idea is simple: for left-to-right readers, it is natural to assume
that the `git range-diff` is performed between an older vs a newer
version of the branch. As such, the user is probably more interested in
the question "where did this come from?" rather than "where did that one
go?".
To that end, we list the commits in the order of the second commit range
("the newer version"), inserting the unmatched commits of the first
commit range as soon as all their predecessors have been shown.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
At this stage, `git range-diff` can determine corresponding commits
of two related commit ranges. This makes use of the recently introduced
implementation of the linear assignment algorithm.
The core of this patch is a straight port of the ideas of tbdiff, the
apparently dormant project at https://github.com/trast/tbdiff.
The output does not at all match `tbdiff`'s output yet, as this patch
really concentrates on getting the patch matching part right.
Note: due to differences in the diff algorithm (`tbdiff` uses the Python
module `difflib`, Git uses its xdiff fork), the cost matrix calculated
by `range-diff` is different (but very similar) to the one calculated
by `tbdiff`. Therefore, it is possible that they find different matching
commits in corner cases (e.g. when a patch was split into two patches of
roughly equal length).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This command does not do a whole lot so far, apart from showing a usage
that is oddly similar to that of `git tbdiff`. And for a good reason:
the next commits will turn `range-branch` into a full-blown replacement
for `tbdiff`.
At this point, we ignore tbdiff's color options, as they will all be
implemented later using diff_options.
Since f318d73915 (generate-cmds.sh: export all commands to
command-list.h, 2018-05-10), every new command *requires* a man page to
build right away, so let's also add a blank man page, too.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The problem solved by the code introduced in this commit goes like this:
given two sets of items, and a cost matrix which says how much it
"costs" to assign any given item of the first set to any given item of
the second, assign all items (except when the sets have different size)
in the cheapest way.
We use the Jonker-Volgenant algorithm to solve the assignment problem to
answer questions such as: given two different versions of a topic branch
(or iterations of a patch series), what is the best pairing of
commits/patches between the different versions?
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Look for broken "&&" chains that are hidden in subshell, many of
which have been found and corrected.
* es/chain-lint-in-subshell:
t/chainlint.sed: drop extra spaces from regex character class
t/chainlint: add chainlint "specialized" test cases
t/chainlint: add chainlint "complex" test cases
t/chainlint: add chainlint "cuddled" test cases
t/chainlint: add chainlint "loop" and "conditional" test cases
t/chainlint: add chainlint "nested subshell" test cases
t/chainlint: add chainlint "one-liner" test cases
t/chainlint: add chainlint "whitespace" test cases
t/chainlint: add chainlint "basic" test cases
t/Makefile: add machinery to check correctness of chainlint.sed
t/test-lib: teach --chain-lint to detect broken &&-chains in subshells
The lazy clone support had a few places where missing but promised
objects were not correctly tolerated, which have been fixed.
* jt/tags-to-promised-blobs-fix:
tag: don't warn if target is missing but promised
revision: tolerate promised targets of tags
Add a server-side knob to skip commits in exponential/fibbonacci
stride in an attempt to cover wider swath of history with a smaller
number of iterations, potentially accepting a larger packfile
transfer, instead of going back one commit a time during common
ancestor discovery during the "git fetch" transaction.
* jt/fetch-negotiator-skipping:
negotiator/skipping: skip commits during fetch
"git send-email" when using in a batched mode that limits the
number of messages sent in a single SMTP session lost the contents
of the variable used to choose between tls/ssl, unable to send the
second and later batches, which has been fixed.
* jm/send-email-tls-auth-on-batch:
send-email: fix tls AUTH when sending batch
"git rebase" started exporting GIT_DIR environment variable and
exposing it to hook scripts when part of it got rewritten in C.
Instead of matching the old scripted Porcelains' behaviour,
compensate by also exporting GIT_WORK_TREE environment as well to
lessen the damage. This can harm existing hooks that want to
operate on different repository, but the current behaviour is
already broken for them anyway.
* bc/sequencer-export-work-tree-as-well:
sequencer: pass absolute GIT_WORK_TREE to exec commands
Tests to cover conflict cases that involve submodules have been
added for merge-recursive.
* en/t7405-recursive-submodule-conflicts:
t7405: verify 'merge --abort' works after submodule/path conflicts
t7405: add a directory/submodule conflict
t7405: add a file/submodule conflict
Tests to cover various conflicting cases have been added for
merge-recursive.
* en/t6036-merge-recursive-tests:
t6036: add a failed conflict detection case: regular files, different modes
t6036: add a failed conflict detection case with conflicting types
t6036: add a failed conflict detection case with submodule add/add
t6036: add a failed conflict detection case with submodule modify/modify
t6036: add a failed conflict detection case with symlink add/add
t6036: add a failed conflict detection case with symlink modify/modify
The recursive merge strategy did not properly ensure there was no
change between HEAD and the index before performing its operation,
which has been corrected.
* en/dirty-merge-fixes:
merge: fix misleading pre-merge check documentation
merge-recursive: enforce rule that index matches head before merging
t6044: add more testcases with staged changes before a merge is invoked
merge-recursive: fix assumption that head tree being merged is HEAD
merge-recursive: make sure when we say we abort that we actually abort
t6044: add a testcase for index matching head, when head doesn't match HEAD
t6044: verify that merges expected to abort actually abort
index_has_changes(): avoid assuming operating on the_index
read-cache.c: move index_has_changes() from merge.c
"git rebase --rebase-merges" mode now handles octopus merges as
well.
* js/rebase-merge-octopus:
rebase --rebase-merges: adjust man page for octopus support
rebase --rebase-merges: add support for octopus merges
merge: allow reading the merge commit message from a file
"git gc --auto" opens file descriptors for the packfiles before
spawning "git repack/prune", which would upset Windows that does
not want a process to work on a file that is open by another
process. The issue has been worked around.
* kg/gc-auto-windows-workaround:
gc --auto: release pack files before auto packing
For a large tree, the index needs to hold many cache entries
allocated on heap. These cache entries are now allocated out of a
dedicated memory pool to amortize malloc(3) overhead.
* jm/cache-entry-from-mem-pool:
block alloc: add validations around cache_entry lifecyle
block alloc: allocate cache entries from mem_pool
mem-pool: fill out functionality
mem-pool: add life cycle management functions
mem-pool: only search head block for available space
block alloc: add lifecycle APIs for cache_entry structs
read-cache: teach make_cache_entry to take object_id
read-cache: teach refresh_cache_entry to take istate
"git fetch" learned a new option "--negotiation-tip" to limit the
set of commits it tells the other end as "have", to reduce wasted
bandwidth and cycles, which would be helpful when the receiving
repository has a lot of refs that have little to do with the
history at the remote it is fetching from.
* jt/fetch-nego-tip:
fetch-pack: support negotiation tip whitelist
Various glitches in the heuristics of merge-recursive strategy have
been documented in new tests.
* en/t6042-insane-merge-rename-testcases:
t6042: add testcase covering long chains of rename conflicts
t6042: add testcase covering rename/rename(2to1)/delete/delete conflict
t6042: add testcase covering rename/add/delete conflict type
Parsing of -L[<N>][,[<M>]] parameters "git blame" and "git log"
take has been tweaked.
* is/parsing-line-range:
log: prevent error if line range ends past end of file
blame: prevent error if range ends past end of file
Code restructuring and a small fix to transport protocol v2 during
fetching.
* jt/fetch-pack-negotiator:
fetch-pack: introduce negotiator API
fetch-pack: move common check and marking together
fetch-pack: make negotiation-related vars local
fetch-pack: use ref adv. to prune "have" sent
fetch-pack: directly end negotiation if ACK ready
fetch-pack: clear marks before re-marking
fetch-pack: split up everything_local()
"git checkout" and "git worktree add" learned to honor
checkout.defaultRemote when auto-vivifying a local branch out of a
remote tracking branch in a repository with multiple remotes that
have tracking branches that share the same names.
* ab/checkout-default-remote:
checkout & worktree: introduce checkout.defaultRemote
checkout: add advice for ambiguous "checkout <branch>"
builtin/checkout.c: use "ret" variable for return
checkout: pass the "num_matches" up to callers
checkout.c: change "unique" member to "num_matches"
checkout.c: introduce an *_INIT macro
checkout.h: wrap the arguments to unique_tracking_name()
checkout tests: index should be clean after dwim checkout
"git diff --color-moved" feature has further been tweaked.
* sb/diff-color-move-more:
diff.c: offer config option to control ws handling in move detection
diff.c: add white space mode to move detection that allows indent changes
diff.c: factor advance_or_nullify out of mark_color_as_moved
diff.c: decouple white space treatment from move detection algorithm
diff.c: add a blocks mode for moved code detection
diff.c: adjust hash function signature to match hashmap expectation
diff.c: do not pass diff options as keydata to hashmap
t4015: avoid git as a pipe input
xdiff/xdiffi.c: remove unneeded function declarations
xdiff/xdiff.h: remove unused flags
