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Junio C Hamano
8ae92e6389 rename diff_free_filespec_data_large() to diff_free_filespec_blob()
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-10-02 21:02:09 -07:00
Jeff King
eede7b7d11 diffcore-rename: cache file deltas
We find rename candidates by computing a fingerprint hash of
each file, and then comparing those fingerprints. There are
inherently O(n^2) comparisons, so it pays in CPU time to
hoist the (rather expensive) computation of the fingerprint
out of that loop (or to cache it once we have computed it once).

Previously, we didn't keep the filespec information around
because then we had the potential to consume a great deal of
memory. However, instead of keeping all of the filespec
data, we can instead just keep the fingerprint.

This patch implements and uses diff_free_filespec_data_large
to accomplish that goal. We also have to change
estimate_similarity not to needlessly repopulate the
filespec data when we already have the hash.

Practical tests showed 4.5x speedup for a 10% memory usage
increase.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-10-02 21:02:03 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0024a54923 Fix the rename detection limit checking
This adds more proper rename detection limits. Instead of just checking
the limit against the number of potential rename destinations, we verify
that the rename matrix (which is what really matters) doesn't grow
ridiculously large, and we also make sure that we don't overflow when
doing the matrix size calculation.

This also changes the default limits from unlimited, to a rename matrix
that is limited to 100 entries on a side. You can raise it with the config
entry, or by using the "-l<n>" command line flag, but at least the default
is now a sane number that avoids spending lots of time (and memory) in
situations that likely don't merit it.

The choice of default value is of course very debatable. Limiting the
rename matrix to a 100x100 size will mean that even if you have just one
obvious rename, but you also create (or delete) 10,000 files, the rename
matrix will be so big that we disable the heuristics. Sounds reasonable to
me, but let's see if people hit this (and, perhaps more importantly,
actually *care*) in real life.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-14 12:12:57 -07:00
Sven Verdoolaege
5701115aa7 git-diff: don't squelch the new SHA1 in submodule diffs
The code to squelch empty diffs introduced by commit
fb13227e08 would inadvertently
populate filespec "two" of a submodule change using the uninitialized
(null) SHA1, thereby replacing the submodule SHA1 by 0{40} in the output.

This change teaches diffcore_skip_stat_unmatch to handle
submodule changes correctly.

Signed-off-by: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-09 02:28:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
aecbf914c4 git-diff: resurrect the traditional empty "diff --git" behaviour
The warning message to suggest "Consider running git-status" from
"git-diff" that we experimented with during the 1.5.3 cycle turns
out to be a bad idea.  It robbed cache-dirty information from people
who valued it, while still asking users to run "update-index --refresh".
It was hoped that the new behaviour would at least have some educational
value, but not showing the cache-dirty paths like before meant that the
user would not even know easily which paths were cache-dirty, and it
made the need to refresh the index look like even more unnecessary chore.

This commit reinstates the traditional behaviour, but with a twist.

By default, the empty "diff --git" output is totally squelched out
from "git diff" output.  At the end of the command, it automatically
runs "update-index --refresh" as needed, without even bothering the
user.  In other words, people who do not care about the cache-dirtyness
do not even have to see the warning.

The traditional behaviour to see the stat-dirty output and to bypassing
the overhead of content comparison can be specified by setting the
configuration variable diff.autorefreshindex to false.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-31 23:30:14 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
2f82f760e1 Take binary diffs into account for "git rebase"
We used to not generate a patch ID for binary diffs, but that means that
some commits may be skipped as being identical to already-applied diffs
when doing a rebase.

So just delete the code that skips the binary diff. At the very least,
we'd want the filenames to be part of the patch ID, but we might also want
to generate some hash for the binary diff itself too.

This fixes an issue noticed by Torgil Svensson.

Tested-by: Torgil Svensson <torgil.svensson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-19 11:45:31 -07:00
René Scharfe
6d2d9e8666 diff: squelch empty diffs even more
When we compare two non-tracked files, or explicitly
specify --no-index, the suggestion to run git-status
is not helpful.

The patch adds a new diff_options bitfield member, no_index, that
is used instead of the special value of -2 of the rev_info field
max_count to indicate that the index is not to be used.  This makes
it possible to pass that flag down to diffcore_skip_stat_unmatch(),
which only has one diff_options parameter.

This could even become a cleanup if we removed all assignments of
max_count to a value of -2 (viz. replacement of a magic value with
a self-documenting field name) but I didn't dare to do that so late
in the rc game..

The no_index bit, if set, then tells diffcore_skip_stat_unmatch()
to not account for any skipped stat-mismatches, which avoids the
suggestion to run git-status.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-14 22:34:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
fb13227e08 git-diff: squelch "empty" diffs
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>
2007-08-14 01:55:00 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e7a7be8831 git_mkstemp(): be careful not to overflow the path buffer.
If user's TMPDIR is insanely long, return negative after
setting errno to ENAMETOOLONG, pretending that the underlying
mkstemp() choked on a temporary file path that is too long.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-25 21:34:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d3a93dc967 diff.c: make built-in hunk header pattern a separate table
This would hopefully make it easier to maintain.  Initially we
would have "java" and "tex" defined, as they are the only ones
we already have.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-08 00:25:59 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2c3fa66f35 diff: honor binariness specified in attributes
The code shuffling mistakenly lost binariness specified with the
attribute mecahnism and made it always guess from the data.

Noticed by Johannes, with two test cases to t4020.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-07 12:25:11 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e0e324a4dc Fix configuration syntax to specify customized hunk header patterns.
This updates the hunk header customization syntax.  The special
case 'funcname' attribute is gone.

You assign the name of the type of contents to path's "diff"
attribute as a string value in .gitattributes like this:

	*.java diff=java
	*.perl diff=perl
	*.doc diff=doc

If you supply "diff.<name>.funcname" variable via the
configuration mechanism (e.g. in $HOME/.gitconfig), the value is
used as the regexp set to find the line to use for the hunk
header (the variable is called "funcname" because such a line
typically is the one that has the name of the function in
programming language source text).

If there is no such configuration, built-in default is used, if
any.  Currently there are two default patterns: default and java.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-07 01:49:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f258475a6e Per-path attribute based hunk header selection.
This makes"diff -p" hunk headers customizable via gitattributes mechanism.
It is based on Johannes's earlier patch that allowed to define a single
regexp to be used for everything.

The mechanism to arrive at the regexp that is used to define hunk header
is the same as other use of gitattributes.  You assign an attribute, funcname
(because "diff -p" typically uses the name of the function the patch is about
as the hunk header), a simple string value.  This can be one of the names of
built-in pattern (currently, "java" is defined) or a custom pattern name, to
be looked up from the configuration file.

  (in .gitattributes)
  *.java   funcname=java
  *.perl   funcname=perl

  (in .git/config)
  [funcname]
    java = ... # ugly and complicated regexp to override the built-in one.
    perl = ... # another ugly and complicated regexp to define a new one.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-06 01:20:47 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
30b250104d Future-proof source for changes in xdemitconf_t
The instances of xdemitconf_t were initialized member by member.
Instead, initialize them to all zero, so we do not have
to update those places each time we introduce a new member.

[jc: minimally fixed by getting rid of a new global]

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-06 00:22:12 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
29a3eefde1 Introduce diff_filespec_is_binary()
This replaces an explicit initialization of filespec->is_binary
field used for rename/break followed by direct access to that
field with a wrapper function that lazily iniaitlizes and
accesses the field.  We would add more attribute accesses for
the use of diff routines, and it would be better to make this
abstraction earlier.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-06 00:21:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e2b1accc59 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Document -<n> for git-format-patch
  glossary: add 'reflog'
  diff --no-index: fix --name-status with added files
  Don't smash stack when $GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES is too long
2007-07-03 22:56:59 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
72909befaa Add diff-option --ext-diff
To prevent funky games with external diff engines, git-log and
friends prevent external diff engines from being called. That makes
sense in the context of git-format-patch or git-rebase.

However, for "git log -p" it is not so nice to get the message
that binary files cannot be compared, while "git diff" has no
problems with them, if you provided an external diff driver.

With this patch, "git log --ext-diff -p" will do what you expect,
and the option "--no-ext-diff" can be used to override that
setting.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-03 19:05:55 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
3cb567386d diff --no-index: fix --name-status with added files
Without this patch, an added file would be reported as /dev/null.

Noticed by David Kastrup.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-03 13:44:30 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e1bc8dc66d Merge branch 'jc/diffcore'
* jc/diffcore:
  diffcore-delta.c: Ignore CR in CRLF for text files
  diffcore-delta.c: update the comment on the algorithm.
  diffcore_filespec: add is_binary
  diffcore_count_changes: pass diffcore_filespec
2007-07-02 01:45:12 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
706098af6b diffcore_filespec: add is_binary
diffcore-break and diffcore-rename would want to behave slightly
differently depending on the binary-ness of the data, so add one
bit to the filespec, as the structure is now passed down to
diffcore_count_changes() function.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-30 20:51:31 -07:00
René Scharfe
125b763052 diff: round down similarity index
Rounding down the printed (dis)similarity index allows us to use
"100%" as a special value that indicates complete rewrites and
fully equal file contents, respectively.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-25 01:51:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
750f7b668f Finally implement "git log --follow"
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>
2007-06-22 23:37:11 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
634cd48a8a Move buffer_is_binary() to xdiff-interface.h
We already have two instances where we want to determine if a buffer
contains binary data as opposed to text.

[jc: cherry-picked 6bfce93e from 'master']

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-15 23:27:23 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
ca6c097089 Teach diff to imply --find-copies-harder upon -C -C
Earlier, a second "-C" on the command line had no effect.
But "--find-copies-harder" is so long to type, let's make doubled -C
enable that option.  It is in line with how "git blame" handles such
doubled options to mean "work harder".

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-12 01:00:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
16befb8b7f Even more missing static
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-08 02:54:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a6080a0a44 War on whitespace
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have
crept in to our source files over time.  There are a few files that need
to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors).  The results
still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-07 00:04:01 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
6bfce93e04 Move buffer_is_binary() to xdiff-interface.h
We already have two instances where we want to determine if a buffer
contains binary data as opposed to text.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-04 23:07:00 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c56ed464b0 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Fix git-svn to handle svn not reporting the md5sum of a file, and test.
  Fix mishandling of $Id$ expanded in the repository copy in convert.c
  More echo "$user_message" fixes.
  Add tests for the last two fixes.
  git-commit: use printf '%s\n' instead of echo on user-supplied strings
  git-am: use printf instead of echo on user-supplied strings
  Documentation: Add definition of "evil merge" to GIT Glossary
  Replace the last 'dircache's by 'index'
  Documentation: Clean up links in GIT Glossary
2007-05-26 18:53:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d1c7c27ea3 Merge branch 'maint-1.5.1' into maint
* maint-1.5.1:
  Fix git-svn to handle svn not reporting the md5sum of a file, and test.
  More echo "$user_message" fixes.
  Add tests for the last two fixes.
  git-commit: use printf '%s\n' instead of echo on user-supplied strings
  git-am: use printf instead of echo on user-supplied strings
  Documentation: Add definition of "evil merge" to GIT Glossary
  Replace the last 'dircache's by 'index'
  Documentation: Clean up links in GIT Glossary
2007-05-26 01:30:40 -07:00
Jakub Narebski
5adf317b31 Replace the last 'dircache's by 'index'
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-25 20:54:23 -07:00
Martin Waitz
302b9282c9 rename dirlink to gitlink.
Unify naming of plumbing dirlink/gitlink concept:

git ls-files -z '*.[ch]' |
xargs -0 perl -pi -e 's/dirlink/gitlink/g;' -e 's/DIRLNK/GITLINK/g;'

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-21 23:34:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7df6ddf51e Merge branch 'maint-1.5.1' into maint
* maint-1.5.1:
  annotate: make it work from subdirectories.
  git-config: Correct asciidoc documentation for --int/--bool
  t1300: Add tests for git-config --bool --get
  unpack-trees.c: verify_uptodate: remove dead code
  Use PATH_MAX instead of TEMPFILE_PATH_LEN
  branch: fix segfault when resolving an invalid HEAD
2007-05-20 19:57:00 -07:00
Fernando J. Pereda
1472966c04 Use PATH_MAX instead of TEMPFILE_PATH_LEN
Signed-off-by: Fernando J. Pereda <ferdy@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-20 14:40:34 -07:00
Johan Herland
8a912bcb25 Ensure return value from xread() is always stored into an ssize_t
This patch fixes all calls to xread() where the return value is not
stored into an ssize_t. The patch should not have any effect whatsoever,
other than putting better/more appropriate type names on variables.

Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-15 21:16:03 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6e0b8ed6d3 diff.c: do not use a separate "size cache".
diff_filespec has a slot to record the size of the data already,
so make use of it instead of a separate size cache.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-07 15:54:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
fc3abdf5cb diff: release blobs after generating textual diff.
This reduces the memory pressure when dealing with many paths.

An unscientific test of running "diff-tree --stat --summary -M"
between v2.6.19 and v2.6.20-rc1 in the linux kernel repository
indicates that the number of minor faults are reduced by 2/3.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-07 15:54:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9aae177a4a Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  gitweb: use decode_utf8 directly
  posix compatibility for t4200
  Document 'opendiff' value in config.txt and git-mergetool.txt
  Allow PERL_PATH="/usr/bin/env perl"
  Make xstrndup common
  diff.c: fix "size cache" handling.
  http-fetch: Disable use of curl multi support for libcurl < 7.16.
2007-05-03 23:26:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
cdda666201 diff.c: fix "size cache" handling.
We broke the size-cache handling when we changed the function
signature of sha1_object_info() in 21666f1a.  We obviously
wanted to cache the size we obtained when sha1_object_info()
succeeded, not when it failed.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-03 22:12:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f1af60bdba Support 'diff=pgm' attribute
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>
2007-04-22 22:16:14 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a2d7c6c620 Merge branch 'jc/attr'
* 'jc/attr': (28 commits)
  lockfile: record the primary process.
  convert.c: restructure the attribute checking part.
  Fix bogus linked-list management for user defined merge drivers.
  Simplify calling of CR/LF conversion routines
  Document gitattributes(5)
  Update 'crlf' attribute semantics.
  Documentation: support manual section (5) - file formats.
  Simplify code to find recursive merge driver.
  Counto-fix in merge-recursive
  Fix funny types used in attribute value representation
  Allow low-level driver to specify different behaviour during internal merge.
  Custom low-level merge driver: change the configuration scheme.
  Allow the default low-level merge driver to be configured.
  Custom low-level merge driver support.
  Add a demonstration/test of customized merge.
  Allow specifying specialized merge-backend per path.
  merge-recursive: separate out xdl_merge() interface.
  Allow more than true/false to attributes.
  Document git-check-attr
  Change attribute negation marker from '!' to '-'.
  ...
2007-04-21 17:38:00 -07:00
Alex Riesen
ac78e54804 Simplify calling of CR/LF conversion routines
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-20 23:24:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a5e92abde6 Fix funny types used in attribute value representation
It was bothering me a lot that I abused small integer values
casted to (void *) to represent non string values in
gitattributes.  This corrects it by making the type of attribute
values (const char *), and using the address of a few statically
allocated character buffer to denote true/false.  Unset attributes
are represented as having NULLs as their values.

Added in-header documentation to explain how git_checkattr()
routine should be called.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-18 16:17:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
515106fa13 Allow more than true/false to attributes.
This allows you to define three values (and possibly more) to
each attribute: true, false, and unset.

Typically the handlers that notice and act on attribute values
treat "unset" attribute to mean "do your default thing"
(e.g. crlf that is unset would trigger "guess from contents"),
so being able to override a setting to an unset state is
actually useful.

 - If you want to set the attribute value to true, have an entry
   in .gitattributes file that mentions the attribute name; e.g.

	*.o	binary

 - If you want to set the attribute value explicitly to false,
   use '-'; e.g.

	*.a	-diff

 - If you want to make the attribute value _unset_, perhaps to
   override an earlier entry, use '!'; e.g.

	*.a	-diff
	c.i.a	!diff

This also allows string values to attributes, with the natural
syntax:

	attrname=attrvalue

but you cannot use it, as nobody takes notice and acts on
it yet.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-17 01:04:59 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
40250af411 Fix 'diff' attribute semantics.
This is in the same spirit as the previous one.  Earlier 'diff'
meant 'do the built-in binary heuristics and disable patch text
generation based on it' while '!diff' meant 'do not guess, do
not generate patch text'.  There was no way to say 'do generate
patch text even when the heuristics says it has NUL in it'.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-15 14:35:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
04786756f9 Expose subprojects as special files to "git diff" machinery
The same way we generate diffs on symlinks as the the diff of text of the
symlink, we can generate subproject diffs (when not recursing into them!)
as the diff of the text that describes the subproject.

Of course, since what descibes a subproject is just the SHA1, that's what
we'll use. Add some pretty-printing to make it a bit more obvious what is
going on, and we're done.

So with this, we can get both raw diffs and "textual" diffs of subproject
changes:

 - git diff --raw:

	:160000 160000 2de597b5ad348b7db04bd10cdd38cd81cbc93ab5 0000000... M    sub-A

 - git diff:

	diff --git a/sub-A b/sub-A
	index 2de597b..e8f11a4 160000
	--- a/sub-A
	+++ b/sub-A
	@@ -1 +1 @@
	-Subproject commit 2de597b5ad348b7db04bd10cdd38cd81cbc93ab5
	+Subproject commit e8f11a45c5c6b9e2fec6d136d3fb5aff75393d42

NOTE! We'll also want to have the ability to recurse into the subproject
and actually diff it recursively, but that will involve a new command line
option (I'd suggest "--subproject" and "-S", but the latter is in use by
pickaxe), and some very different code.

But regardless of ay future recursive behaviour, we need the non-recursive
version too (and it should be the default, at least in the absense of
config options, so that large superprojects don't default to something
extremely expensive).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-15 12:52:48 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8c701249d2 Teach 'diff' about 'diff' attribute.
This makes paths that explicitly unset 'diff' attribute not to
produce "textual" diffs from 'git-diff' family.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-14 08:57:06 -07:00
Andy Parkins
b18825876a Show binary file size change in diff --stat
Previously, a binary file in the diffstat would show as:

 some-binary-file.bin       |  Bin

The space after the "Bin" was never used.  This patch changes binary
lines in the diffstat to be:

 some-binary-file.bin       |  Bin 12345 -> 123456 bytes

The very nice "->" notation was suggested by Johannes Schindelin, and
shows the before and after sizes more clearly than "+" and "-" would.
If a size is 0 it's not shown (although it would probably be better to
treat no-file differently from zero-byte-file).

The user can see what changed in the binary file, and how big the new
file is.  This is in keeping with the information in the rest of the
diffstat.

The diffstat_t members "added" and "deleted" were unused when the file
was binary, so this patch loads them with the file sizes in
builtin_diffstat().  These figures are then read in show_stats() when
the file is marked binary.

Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-05 15:07:16 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
68aacb2f3c diff --quiet
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>
2007-03-14 16:21:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3161b4b521 Remove unused diffcore_std_no_resolve
This was only used by diff-tree-helper program, whose purpose
was to translate a raw diff to a patch.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-14 16:21:19 -07:00
Alex Riesen
41bbf9d585 Allow git-diff exit with codes similar to diff(1)
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>
2007-03-14 16:21:19 -07:00