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Junio C Hamano
b648557ef1 Merge branch 'rc/histogram-diff'
* rc/histogram-diff:
  xdiff/xprepare: initialise xdlclassifier_t cf in xdl_prepare_env()
2011-09-06 11:42:58 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
2738bc3f09 xdiff/xprepare: initialise xdlclassifier_t cf in xdl_prepare_env()
Ensure that the xdl_free_classifier() call on xdlclassifier_t cf is safe
even if xdl_init_classifier() isn't called. This may occur in the case
where diff is run with --histogram and a call to, say, xdl_prepare_ctx()
fails.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-31 10:03:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b14b969ab9 Merge branch 'rc/histogram-diff' into HEAD
* rc/histogram-diff:
  xdiff/xhistogram: drop need for additional variable
  xdiff/xhistogram: rely on xdl_trim_ends()
  xdiff/xhistogram: rework handling of recursed results
  xdiff: do away with xdl_mmfile_next()
  Make test number unique
  xdiff/xprepare: use a smaller sample size for histogram diff
  xdiff/xprepare: skip classification
  teach --histogram to diff
  t4033-diff-patience: factor out tests
  xdiff/xpatience: factor out fall-back-diff function
  xdiff/xprepare: refactor abort cleanups
  xdiff/xprepare: use memset()

Conflicts:
	xdiff/xprepare.c
2011-08-17 17:17:16 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
27af01d552 xdiff/xprepare: improve O(n*m) performance in xdl_cleanup_records()
In xdl_cleanup_records(), we see O(n*m) performance, where n is the
number of records from xdf->dstart to xdf->dend, and m is the size of a
bucket in xdf->rhash (<= by mlim).

Here, we improve this to O(n) by pre-computing nm (in rcrec->len(1|2))
in xdl_classify_record().

Reported-by: Marat Radchenko <marat@slonopotamus.org>
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-17 17:15:05 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
6486a84cb8 xdiff/xhistogram: drop need for additional variable
Having an additional variable (ptr) instead of changing line(1|2) and
count(1|2) was for debugging purposes.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-08 13:00:17 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
43ca7530df xdiff/xhistogram: rely on xdl_trim_ends()
Do away with reduce_common_start_end() and use xdf->dstart and xdf->dend
set by xdl_trim_ends() that similarly tells us where the first unmatched
line from the start and end occurs.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-08 13:00:17 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
19f7a9c577 xdiff/xhistogram: rework handling of recursed results
Previously we were over-complicating matters by trying to combine the
recursed results. Now, terminate immediately if a recursive call failed
and return its result.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-08 13:00:17 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
739864b1ff xdiff: do away with xdl_mmfile_next()
Given our simple mmfile structure, xdl_mmfile_next() calls are
redundant. Do away with calls to them.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-03 10:15:16 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
86abba8015 xdiff/xprepare: use a smaller sample size for histogram diff
For histogram diff, we can afford a smaller sample size and thus a
poorer estimate of the number of lines, as the hash table (rhash) won't
be filled up/grown. This is safe as the final count of lines (xdf.nrecs)
will be updated correctly anyway by xdl_prepare_ctx().

This gives us a small boost in performance.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-12 09:30:00 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
9f37c27593 xdiff/xprepare: skip classification
xdiff performs "classification" of records (xdl_classify_record()),
replacing hashes (xrecord_t.ha) with a unique identifier of the
record/line and building a hash table (xrecord_t.rhash) of records. This
is then used to "cleanup" records (xdl_cleanup_records()).

We don't need any of that in histogram diff, so we omit calls to these
functions. We also skip allocating memory to the hash table, rhash, as
it is no longer used.

This gives us a small boost in performance.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-12 09:29:39 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
8c912eea94 teach --histogram to diff
Port JGit's HistogramDiff algorithm over to C. Rough numbers (TODO) show
that it is faster than its --patience cousin, as well as the default
Meyers algorithm.

The implementation has been reworked to use structs and pointers,
instead of bitmasks, thus doing away with JGit's 2^28 line limit.

We also use xdiff's default hash table implementation (xdl_hash_bits()
with XDL_HASHLONG()) for convenience.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-12 09:29:20 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
1d26b252f1 xdiff/xpatience: factor out fall-back-diff function
This is in preparation for the histogram diff algorithm, which will also
re-use much of the code to call the default Meyers diff algorithm.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-07 09:41:24 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
159607a8f1 xdiff/xprepare: refactor abort cleanups
Group free()'s that are called when a malloc() fails in
xdl_prepare_ctx(), making for more readable code.

Also add a free() on ha, in case future git hackers add allocs after the
ha malloc.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-07 09:37:21 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
452f4fa51e xdiff/xprepare: use memset()
Use memset() instead of a for loop to initialize. This could give a
performance advantage.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-07 09:36:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8cf666c9ee Merge branch 'cb/diff-fname-optim'
* cb/diff-fname-optim:
  diff: avoid repeated scanning while looking for funcname
  do not search functions for patch ID
  add rebase patch id tests
2010-11-17 14:59:16 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
349362cc20 xdiff: cast arguments for ctype functions to unsigned char
The ctype functions isspace(), isalnum(), et al take an integer
argument representing an unsigned character, or -1 for EOF.  On
platforms with a signed char, it is unsafe to pass a char to them
without casting it to unsigned char first.

Most of git is already shielded against this by the ctype
implementation in git-compat-util.h, but xdiff, which uses libc
ctype.h, ought to be fixed.

Noticed-by: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents-Montreal.ORG>
Reported-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-06 10:46:45 -07:00
René Scharfe
c099789bb0 diff: avoid repeated scanning while looking for funcname
For each hunk, xdl_find_func searches the preimage for a function name
until the beginning of the file. If the file does not contain any
function names, this search has complexity O(n^2) in the number of
hunks n.

Instead, inline xdl_find_func() and keep track of up to which line we
have scanned already and the contents of the last funcname line that
we have found.

Noticed and a different approach proposed by Clemens Buchacher.
This alternative solution was done by René Scharfe.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-30 11:43:07 -07:00
Dylan Reid
b4cf0f1784 xdiff: optimise for no whitespace difference when ignoring whitespace.
In xdl_recmatch, do the memcmp to check if the two lines are equal before
checking if whitespace flags are set.  If the lines are identical, then
there is no need to check if they differ only in whitespace.
This makes the common case (there is no whitespace difference) faster.
It costs the case where lines are the same length and contain
whitespace differences, but the common case is more than 20% faster.

Signed-off-by: Dylan Reid <dgreid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-05 23:27:41 -07:00
Alexey Mahotkin
c8c073c420 xdiff/xmerge.c: use memset() instead of explicit for-loop
memset() is heavily optimized, and resulting assembler code
is about 150 lines less for that file.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Mahotkin <squadette@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-01 11:11:11 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
a4b5e91c49 xdl_merge(): move file1 and file2 labels to xmparam structure
The labels for the three participants in a potential conflict are all
optional arguments for the xdiff merge routine; if they are NULL, then
xdl_merge() can cope by omitting the labels from its output.  Move
them to the xmparam structure to allow new callers to save some
keystrokes where they are not needed.

This also has the virtue of making the xdiff merge interface more
similar to merge_trees, which might make it easier to learn.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-20 20:36:10 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
8a161433a0 xdl_merge(): add optional ancestor label to diff3-style output
The ‘git checkout --conflict=diff3’ command can be used to
present conflicts hunks including text from the common ancestor:

	<<<<<<< ours
	ourside
	|||||||
	original
	=======
	theirside
	>>>>>>> theirs

The added information is helpful for resolving merges by hand, and
merge tools can usually grok it because it is very similar to the
output from diff3 -m.

A subtle change can help more tools to understand the output.  ‘diff3’
includes the name of the merge base on the ||||||| line of the output,
and some tools misparse the conflict hunks without it.  Add a new
xmp->ancestor parameter to xdl_merge() for use with conflict style
XDL_MERGE_DIFF3 as a label on the ||||||| line for any conflict hunks.

If xmp->ancestor is NULL, the output format is unchanged.  Thus, this
change only provides unexposed plumbing for the new feature; it does
not affect the outward behavior of git.

Requested-by: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Bert Wesarg <Bert.Wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-20 20:36:10 -07:00
Bert Wesarg
560119b9ab refactor merge flags into xmparam_t
Include the merge level, favor, and style flags into the xmparam_t struct.
This removes the bit twiddling with these three values into the one flags
parameter.

Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-02 11:51:48 -08:00
Bert Wesarg
cd1d61c44f make union merge an xdl merge favor
The current union merge driver is implemented as an post process.  But the
xdl_merge code is quite capable to produce the result by itself.  Therefore
move it there.

Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-02 11:43:40 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
06dbc1ea57 Merge branch 'jc/conflict-marker-size'
* jc/conflict-marker-size:
  rerere: honor conflict-marker-size attribute
  rerere: prepare for customizable conflict marker length
  conflict-marker-size: new attribute
  rerere: use ll_merge() instead of using xdl_merge()
  merge-tree: use ll_merge() not xdl_merge()
  xdl_merge(): allow passing down marker_size in xmparam_t
  xdl_merge(): introduce xmparam_t for merge specific parameters
  git_attr(): fix function signature

Conflicts:
	builtin-merge-file.c
	ll-merge.c
	xdiff/xdiff.h
	xdiff/xmerge.c
2010-01-20 20:28:51 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9914cf4689 xdl_merge(): allow passing down marker_size in xmparam_t
This allows the callers of xdl_merge() to pass marker_size (defaults to 7)
in xmparam_t argument, to use conflict markers of non-default length.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-16 23:45:29 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
00f8f97d30 xdl_merge(): introduce xmparam_t for merge specific parameters
So far we have only needed to be able to pass an option that is generic to
xdiff family of functions to this function.  Extend the interface so that
we can give it merge specific parameters.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-16 21:33:13 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
73eb40eeaa git-merge-file --ours, --theirs
Sometimes people want their conflicting merges autoresolved by
favouring upstream changes.  The standard answer they are given is
to run "git diff --name-only | xargs git checkout MERGE_HEAD --" in
such a case.  This is to accept automerge results for the paths that
are fully resolved automatically, while taking their version of the
file in full for paths that have conflicts.

This is problematic on two counts.

One is that this is not exactly what these people want.  It discards
all changes they did on their branch for any paths that conflicted.
They usually want to salvage as much automerge result as possible in
a conflicted file, and want to take the upstream change only in the
conflicted part.

This patch teaches two new modes of operation to the lowest-lever
merge machinery, xdl_merge().  Instead of leaving the conflicted
lines from both sides enclosed in <<<, ===, and >>> markers, the
conflicts are resolved favouring our side or their side of changes.

A larger problem is that this tends to encourage a bad workflow by
allowing people to record such a mixed up half-merged result as a
full commit without auditing.  This commit does not tackle this
issue at all.  In git, we usually give long enough rope to users
with strange wishes as long as the risky features are not enabled by
default, and this is such a risky feature.

Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-29 23:11:46 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d34eca0392 Merge branch 'tf/diff-whitespace-incomplete-line'
* tf/diff-whitespace-incomplete-line:
  xutils: Fix xdl_recmatch() on incomplete lines
  xutils: Fix hashing an incomplete line with whitespaces at the end
2009-08-31 22:08:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3b5ef0e216 xutils: Fix xdl_recmatch() on incomplete lines
Thell Fowler noticed that various "ignore whitespace" options to git diff
do not work well on an incomplete line.

The loop control of the function responsible for these bugs was extremely
difficult to follow.  This patch restructures the loops for three variants
of "ignore whitespace" logic.

The basic idea of the re-written logic is:

 - A loop runs while the characters from both strings we are looking at
   match.  We declare unmatch immediately when we find something that does
   not match and return false from the function.  We break out of the loop
   if we ran out of either side of the string.

   The way we skip spaces inside this loop varies depending on the style
   of ignoring whitespaces.

 - After the above loop breaks, we know that the parts of the strings we
   inspected so far match, ignoring the whitespaces.  The lines can match
   only if the remainder consists of nothing but whitespaces.  This part
   of the logic is shared across all three styles.

The new code is more obvious and should be much easier to follow.

Tested-by: Thell Fowler <git@tbfowler.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-23 14:38:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
78ed710fcf xutils: Fix hashing an incomplete line with whitespaces at the end
Upon seeing a whitespace, xdl_hash_record_with_whitespace() first skipped
the run of whitespaces (excluding LF) that begins there, ensuring that the
pointer points at the last whitespace character in the run, and assumed
that the next character must be LF at the end of the line.  This does not
work when hashing an incomplete line, which lacks the LF at the end.

Introduce "at_eol" variable that is true when either we are at the end of
line (looking at LF) or at the end of an incomplete line, and use that
instead throughout the code.

Noticed by Thell Fowler.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-23 13:17:59 -07:00
Pierre Habouzit
f630cfda88 refactor: use bitsizeof() instead of 8 * sizeof()
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-07-22 21:57:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
456cb4cf3e Merge branch 'cb/maint-1.6.0-xdl-merge-fix' into maint
* cb/maint-1.6.0-xdl-merge-fix:
  Change xdl_merge to generate output even for null merges
  t6023: merge-file fails to output anything for a degenerate merge

Conflicts:
	xdiff/xmerge.c
2009-06-02 07:48:44 -07:00
Charles Bailey
5719db91ce Change xdl_merge to generate output even for null merges
xdl_merge used to have a check to ensure that there was at least
some change in one or other side being merged but this suppressed
output for the degenerate case when base, local and remote
contents were all identical.

Removing this check enables correct output in the degenerate case
and xdl_free_script handles freeing NULL scripts so there is no
need to have the check for these calls.

Signed-off-by: Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-05-24 23:56:34 -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
Benjamin Kramer
8e24cbaeaf Fix various dead stores found by the clang static analyzer
http-push.c::finish_request():
  request is initialized by the for loop

index-pack.c::free_base_data():
  b is initialized by the for loop

merge-recursive.c::process_renames():
  move compare to narrower scope, and remove unused assignments to it
  remove unused variable renames2

xdiff/xdiffi.c::xdl_recs_cmp():
  remove unused variable ec

xdiff/xemit.c::xdl_emit_diff():
  xche is always overwritten

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Kramer <benny.kra@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-15 18:25:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8c4c286c39 Merge branch 'kc/maint-diff-bwi-fix' into maint
* kc/maint-diff-bwi-fix:
  Fix combined use of whitespace ignore options to diff
  test more combinations of ignore-whitespace options to diff
2009-02-05 17:52:22 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5dc1308562 Merge branch 'js/patience-diff'
* js/patience-diff:
  bash completions: Add the --patience option
  Introduce the diff option '--patience'
  Implement the patience diff algorithm

Conflicts:
	contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
2009-01-23 21:51:38 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9a01387b97 Merge branch 'kc/maint-diff-bwi-fix'
* kc/maint-diff-bwi-fix:
  Fix combined use of whitespace ignore options to diff
2009-01-21 17:07:51 -08:00
Keith Cascio
6d12acefd5 Fix combined use of whitespace ignore options to diff
The code used to misbehave when options to ignore certain whitespaces
(-w -b and --ignore-at-eol) were combined.

Signed-off-by: Keith Cascio <keith@cs.ucla.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-19 21:21:58 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
92b7de93fb Implement the patience diff algorithm
The patience diff algorithm produces slightly more intuitive output
than the classic Myers algorithm, as it does not try to minimize the
number of +/- lines first, but tries to preserve the lines that are
unique.

To this end, it first determines lines that are unique in both files,
then the maximal sequence which preserves the order (relative to both
files) is extracted.

Starting from this initial set of common lines, the rest of the lines
is handled recursively, with Myers' algorithm as a fallback when
the patience algorithm fails (due to no common unique lines).

This patch includes memory leak fixes by Pierre Habouzit.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-07 13:35:44 -08:00
René Scharfe
6d0e674a57 diff: add option to show context between close hunks
Merge two hunks if there is only the specified number of otherwise unshown
context between them.  For --inter-hunk-context=1, the resulting patch has
the same number of lines but shows uninterrupted context instead of a
context header line in between.

Patches generated with this option are easier to read but are also more
likely to conflict if the file to be patched contains other changes.

This patch keeps the default for this option at 0.  It is intended to just
make the feature available in order to see its advantages and downsides.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-29 01:05:21 -08:00
Davide Libenzi
733070bea9 xdiff: give up scanning similar lines early
In a corner case of large files whose lines do not match uniquely, the
loop to eliminate a line that matches multiple locations adjacent to a run
of lines that do not uniquely match wasted too much cycles.  Fix this by
giving up early after scanning 100 lines in both direction.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-02 23:45:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ac2abb49ce Merge branch 'dl/xdiff'
* dl/xdiff:
  xdiff: give up scanning similar lines early
2008-11-12 21:51:30 -08:00
Davide Libenzi
9b28d55401 xdiff: give up scanning similar lines early
In a corner case of large files whose lines do not match uniquely, the
loop to eliminate a line that matches multiple locations adjacent to a run
of lines that do not uniquely match wasted too much cycles.  Fix this by
giving up early after scanning 100 lines in both direction.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-08 09:28:30 -08:00
Brian Downing
ef2e62fe23 Allow alternate "low-level" emit function from xdl_diff
For some users (e.g. git blame), getting textual patch output is just
extra work, as they can get all the information they need from the low-
level diff structures.  Allow for an alternate low-level emit function
to be defined to allow bypassing the textual patch generation; set
xemitconf_t's emit_func member to enable this.

The (void (*)()) type is pretty ugly, but the alternative would be to
include most of the private xdiff headers in xdiff.h to get the types
required for the "proper" function prototype.  Also, a (void *) won't
work, as ANSI C doesn't allow a function pointer to be cast to an
object pointer.

Signed-off-by: Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-25 12:09:31 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
83133740d9 xmerge.c: "diff3 -m" style clips merge reduction level to EAGER or less
When showing a conflicting merge result, and "--diff3 -m" style is asked
for, this patch makes sure that the merge reduction level does not exceed
XDL_MERGE_EAGER.  This is because "diff3 -m" style output would not make
sense for anything more aggressive than XDL_MERGE_EAGER, because of the
way how the merge reduction works.

"git merge-file" no longer has to force MERGE_EAGER when "--diff3" is
asked for because of this change.

Suppose a common ancestor (shared preimage) is modified to postimage #1
and #2 (each letter represents one line):

                     #####
    postimage#1: 1234ABCDE789
                    |    /
                    |   /
    preimage:    123456789
                    |   \
    postimage#2: 1234AXYE789
                     ####

XDL_MERGE_MINIMAL and XDL_MERGE_EAGER would:

 (1) find the s/56/ABCDE/ done on one side and s/56/AXYE/ done on the
     other side,

 (2) notice that they touch an overlapping area, and

 (3) mark it as a conflict, "ABCDE vs AXYE".

The difference between the two algorithms is that EAGER drops the hunk
altogether if the postimages match (i.e. both sides modified the same
way), while MINIMAL keeps it.  There is no other operation performed to
the hunk.  As the result, lines marked with "#" in the above picure will
be in the RCS merge style output like this (letters <, = and > represent
conflict marker lines):

    output:      1234<ABCDE=AXYE>789    ; with MINIMAL/EAGER

The part from the preimage that corresponds to these conflicting changes
is "56", which is what "diff3 -m" style output adds to it:

    output:      1234<ABCDE|56=AXYE>789 ; in "diff3 -m" style

Now, XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS looks at the differences between the changes two
postimages made in order to reduce the number of lines in the conflicting
regions.  It notices that both sides start their new contents with "A",
and excludes it from the output (it also excludes "E" for the same
reason).  The conflict that used to be "ABCDE vs AXYE" is now "BCD vs XY":

    output:      1234A<BCD=XY>E789      ; with ZEALOUS

There could even be matching parts between two postimages in the middle.
Instead of one side rewriting the shared "56" to "ABCDE" and the other
side to "AXYE", imagine the case where the postimages are "ABCDE" and
"AXCYE", in which case instead of having one conflicted hunk "BCD vs XY",
you would have two conflicting hunks "B vs X" and "D vs Y".

In either case, once you reduce "ABCDE vs AXYE" to "BCD vs XY" (or "ABCDE
vs AXCYE" to "B vs X" and "D vs Y"), there is no part from the preimage
that corresponds to the conflicting change made in both postimages
anymore.  In other words, conflict reduced by ZEALOUS algorithm cannot be
expressed in "diff3 -m" style.  Representing the last illustration like
this is misleading to say the least:

    output:      1234A<BCD|56=XY>E789   ; broken "diff3 -m" style

because the preimage was not ...4A56E... to begin with.  "A" and "E" are
common only between the postimages.

Even worse, once a single conflicting hunk is split into multiple ones
(recall the example of breaking "ABCDE vs AXCYE" to "B vs X" and "D vs
Y"), there is no sane way to distribute the preimage text across split
conflicting hunks.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-30 19:41:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
838338cd22 xmerge.c: minimum readability fixups
This replaces hardcoded magic constants with symbolic ones for
readability, and swaps one if/else blocks to better match the
order in which 0/1/2 variables are handled to nearby codepath.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-30 19:41:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e0af48e496 xdiff-merge: optionally show conflicts in "diff3 -m" style
When showing conflicting merges, we traditionally followed RCS's merge
output format.  The output shows:

 <<<<<<<
 postimage from one side;
 =======
 postimage of the other side; and
 >>>>>>>

Some poeple find it easier to be able to understand what is going on when
they can view the common ancestor's version, which is used by "diff3 -m",
which shows:

 <<<<<<<
 postimage from one side;
 |||||||
 shared preimage;
 =======
 postimage of the other side; and
 >>>>>>>

This is an initial step to bring that as an optional feature to git.
Only "git merge-file" has been converted, with "--diff3" option.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-30 19:41:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f2b25dd81f xdl_fill_merge_buffer(): separate out a too deeply nested function
This simply moves code around to make a separate function that prepares
a single conflicted hunk with markers into the buffer.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-30 19:41:43 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
ee95ec5d58 xdl_merge(): introduce XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS_ALNUM
When a merge conflicts, there are often common lines that are not really
common, such as empty lines or lines containing a single curly bracket.

With XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS_ALNUM, we use the following heuristics: when a
hunk does not contain any letters or digits, it is treated as conflicting.

In other words, a conflict which used to look like this:

	<<<<<<<
					a = 1;
	=======
					output();
	>>>>>>>
				}
			}
		}

	<<<<<<<
		output();
	=======
		b = 1;
	>>>>>>>

will look like this with ZEALOUS_ALNUM:

	<<<<<<<
					a = 1;
				}
			}
		}

		output();
	=======
					output();
				}
			}
		}

		b = 1;
	>>>>>>>

To demonstrate this, git-merge-file has been switched from
XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS to XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS_ALNUM.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-18 00:10:37 -08:00