The word "delimiter" suggests that the argument separates the
substrings, whereas in fact (1) the delimiter characters are included
in the output, and (2) if the input string ends with the delimiter,
then the output does not include a final empty string. So rename the
"delim" arguments of the strbuf_split() family of functions to
"terminator", which is more suggestive of how it is used.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
While iterating, update str and slen to keep track of the part of the
string that hasn't been processed yet rather than computing things
relative to the start of the original string. This eliminates one
local variable, reduces the scope of another, and reduces the amount
of arithmetic needed within the loop.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Use ALLOC_GROW() rather than inline code to manage memory in
strbuf_split_buf(). Rename "pos" to "nr" because it better describes
the use of the variable and it better conforms to the "ALLOC_GROW"
idiom.
Also, instead of adding a sentinal NULL value after each entry is
added to the list, only add it once after all of the entries have been
added.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
The current behavior is to return NULL when strbuf did not
actually allocate a string. This can be quite surprising to
callers, though, who may feed the strbuf from arbitrary data
and expect to always get a valid value.
In most cases, it does not make a difference because calling
any strbuf function will cause an allocation (even if the
function ends up not inserting any data). But if the code is
structured like:
struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
if (some_condition)
strbuf_addstr(&buf, some_string);
return strbuf_detach(&buf, NULL);
then you may or may not return NULL, depending on the
condition. This can cause us to segfault in http-push
(when fed an empty URL) and in http-backend (when an empty
parameter like "foo=bar&&" is in the $QUERY_STRING).
This patch forces strbuf_detach to allocate an empty
NUL-terminated string when it is called on a strbuf that has
not been allocated.
I investigated all call-sites of strbuf_detach. The majority
are either not affected by the change (because they call a
strbuf_* function unconditionally), or can handle the empty
string just as easily as NULL.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These functions are helpful when we do not want to expose \n to
translators. For example
printf("hello world\n");
can be converted to
printf_ln(_("hello world"));
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* tr/maint-bundle-long-subject:
t5704: match tests to modern style
strbuf: improve strbuf_get*line documentation
bundle: use a strbuf to scan the log for boundary commits
bundle: put strbuf_readline_fd in strbuf.c with adjustments
The comment even said that it should eventually go there. While at
it, match the calling convention and name of the function to the
strbuf_get*line family. So it now is strbuf_getwholeline_fd.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jk/credentials:
t: add test harness for external credential helpers
credentials: add "store" helper
strbuf: add strbuf_add*_urlencode
Makefile: unix sockets may not available on some platforms
credentials: add "cache" helper
docs: end-user documentation for the credential subsystem
credential: make relevance of http path configurable
credential: add credential.*.username
credential: apply helper config
http: use credential API to get passwords
credential: add function for parsing url components
introduce credentials API
t5550: fix typo
test-lib: add test_config_global variant
Conflicts:
strbuf.c
This just follows the rfc3986 rules for percent-encoding
url data into a strbuf.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a contributor asks the integrator to merge her history, a signed tag
can be a good vehicle to communicate the authenticity of the request while
conveying other information such as the purpose of the topic.
E.g. a signed tag "for-linus" can be created, and the integrator can run:
$ git pull git://example.com/work.git/ for-linus
This would allow the integrator to run "git verify-tag FETCH_HEAD" to
validate the signed tag.
Update fmt-merge-msg so that it pre-fills the merge message template with
the body (but not signature) of the tag object to help the integrator write
a better merge message, in the same spirit as the existing merge.log summary
lines.
The message that comes from GPG signature validation is also included in
the merge message template to help the integrator verify it, but they are
prefixed with "#" to make them comments.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This use of strbuf_grow() is a historical artifact that was once used to
ensure that strbuf.buf was allocated and properly nul-terminated. This
was added before the introduction of the slopbuf in b315c5c0, which
guarantees that strbuf.buf always points to a usable nul-terminated string.
So let's remove it.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the case where sb is initialized to the slopbuf (through
strbuf_init(sb,0) or STRBUF_INIT), strbuf_grow() loses the terminating
nul: it grows the buffer, but gives ALLOC_GROW a NULL source to avoid
it being freed. So ALLOC_GROW does not copy anything to the new
memory area.
This subtly broke the call to strbuf_getline in read_next_command()
[fast-import.c:1855], which goes
strbuf_detach(&command_buf, NULL); # command_buf is now = STRBUF_INIT
stdin_eof = strbuf_getline(&command_buf, stdin, '\n');
if (stdin_eof)
return EOF;
In strbuf_getwholeline, this did
strbuf_grow(sb, 0); # loses nul-termination
if (feof(fp))
return EOF;
strbuf_reset(sb); # this would have nul-terminated!
Valgrind found this because fast-import subsequently uses prefixcmp()
on command_buf.buf, which after the EOF exit contains only
uninitialized memory.
Arguably strbuf_getwholeline is also broken, in that it touches the
buffer before deciding whether to do any work. However, it seems more
futureproof to not let the strbuf API lose the nul-termination by its
own fault.
So make sure that strbuf_grow() puts in a nul even if it has nowhere
to copy it from. This makes strbuf_grow(sb, 0) a semantic no-op as
far as readers of the buffer are concerned.
Also remove the nul-termination added by strbuf_init, which is made
redudant.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jk/maint-config-param:
config: use strbuf_split_str instead of a temporary strbuf
strbuf: allow strbuf_split to work on non-strbufs
config: avoid segfault when parsing command-line config
config: die on error in command-line config
fix "git -c" parsing of values with equals signs
strbuf_split: add a max parameter
The strbuf_split function takes a strbuf as input, and
outputs a list of strbufs. However, there is no reason that
the input has to be a strbuf, and not an arbitrary buffer.
This patch adds strbuf_split_buf for a length-delimited
buffer, and strbuf_split_str for NUL-terminated strings.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sometimes when splitting, you only want a limited number of
fields, and for the final field to contain "everything
else", even if it includes the delimiter.
This patch introduces strbuf_split_max, which provides a
"max number of fields" parameter; it behaves similarly to
perl's "split" with a 3rd field.
The existing 2-argument form of strbuf_split is retained for
compatibility and ease-of-use.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
strbuf_init does not zero-terminate the initial buffer when hint is
non-zero. Fix this so we can rely on the string to be zero-terminated
even if we haven't filled it with anything yet.
Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a variable-args function, the code for writing into a strbuf is
non-trivial. We ended up cutting and pasting it in several places
because there was no vprintf-style function for strbufs (which in turn
was held up by a lack of va_copy).
Now that we have a fallback va_copy, we can add strbuf_vaddf, the
strbuf equivalent of vsprintf. And we can clean up the cut and paste
mess.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Improved-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The idiom (a + b < a) works fine for detecting that an unsigned
integer has overflowed, but a more explicit
unsigned_add_overflows(a, b)
might be easier to read.
Define such a macro, expanding roughly to ((a) < UINT_MAX - (b)).
Because the expansion uses each argument only once outside of sizeof()
expressions, it is safe to use with arguments that have side effects.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
strbuf_branchname is a thin wrapper around interpret_branch_name
from sha1_name.o. Most strbuf.o users do not need it.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current command line parser is overly lax in places and allows a
branch whose name begins with a hyphen e.g. "-foo" to be created, but the
parseopt infrastructure in general does not like to parse anything that
begins with a dash as a short-hand refname. "git checkout -foo" won't
work, nor will "git branch -d -foo" (even though "git branch -d -- -foo"
works, it does so by mistake; we should not be taking anything but
pathspecs after double-dash).
All the codepaths that create a new branch ref, including the destination
of "branch -m src dst", use strbuf_check_branch_ref() to validate if the
given name is suitable as a branch name. Tighten it to disallow a branch
that begins with a hyphen.
You can still get rid of historical mistakes with
$ git update-ref -d refs/heads/-foo
and third-party Porcelains are free to keep using update-ref to create
refs with a path component that begins with "-".
Issue originally raised by Clemens Buchacher.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ap/merge-backend-opts:
Document that merge strategies can now take their own options
Extend merge-subtree tests to test -Xsubtree=dir.
Make "subtree" part more orthogonal to the rest of merge-recursive.
pull: Fix parsing of -X<option>
Teach git-pull to pass -X<option> to git-merge
git merge -X<option>
git-merge-file --ours, --theirs
Conflicts:
git-compat-util.h
* jk/warn-author-committer-after-commit:
user_ident_sufficiently_given(): refactor the logic to be usable from elsewhere
commit.c::print_summary: do not release the format string too early
commit: allow suppression of implicit identity advice
commit: show interesting ident information in summary
strbuf: add strbuf_addbuf_percentquote
strbuf_expand: convert "%%" to "%"
Conflicts:
builtin-commit.c
ident.c
Teach "-X <option>" command line argument to "git merge" that is passed to
strategy implementations. "ours" and "theirs" autoresolution introduced
by the previous commit can be asked to the recursive strategy.
Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is handy for creating strings which will be fed to printf() or
strbuf_expand().
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The only way to safely quote arbitrary text in a pretty-print user
format is to replace instances of "%" with "%x25". This is slightly
unreadable, and many users would expect "%%" to produce a single
"%", as that is what printf format specifiers do.
This patch converts "%%" to "%" for all users of strbuf_expand():
(1) git-daemon interpolated paths
(2) pretty-print user formats
(3) merge driver command lines
Case (1) was already doing the conversion itself outside of
strbuf_expand(). Case (2) is the intended beneficiary of this patch.
Case (3) users probably won't notice, but as this is user-facing
behavior, consistently providing the quoting mechanism makes sense.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This function is just like strbuf_getline() except it retains the
line-termination character. This function will be used by the mailinfo
and mailsplit builtins which require the entire line for parsing.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
size_t res cannot be less than 0. fread returns 0 on error.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows a common calling sequence
strbuf_branchname(&ref, name);
strbuf_splice(&ref, 0, 0, "refs/heads/", 11);
if (check_ref_format(ref.buf))
die(...);
to be refactored into
if (strbuf_check_branch_ref(&ref, name))
die(...);
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function takes a user-supplied string that is supposed to be a branch
name, and puts it in a strbuf after expanding possible shorthand notation.
A handful of open coded sequence to do this in the existing code have been
changed to use this helper function.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It can be less object code and may be even faster, even if at the
moment there is no callers to take an advantage of that. This
implementation can be trivially made inlinable later.
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make all strbuf functions that can fail free() their memory on error if
they have allocated it. They don't shrink buffers that have been grown,
though.
This allows for easier error handling, as callers only need to call
strbuf_release() if A) the command succeeded or B) if they would have had
to do so anyway because they added something to the strbuf themselves.
Bonus hunk: document strbuf_readlink.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It was already what 'git apply' did in read_old_data(), just export it
as a real function, and make it be more generic.
In particular, this handles the case of the lstat() st_size data not
matching the readlink() return value properly (which apparently happens
at least on NTFS under Linux). But as a result of this you could also
use the new function without even knowing how big the link is going to
be, and it will allocate an appropriately sized buffer.
So we pass in the st_size of the link as just a hint, rather than a
fixed requirement.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The new callback function strbuf_expand_dict_cb() can be used together
with strbuf_expand() if there is only a small number of placeholders
for static replacement texts. It expects its dictionary as an array of
placeholder+value pairs as context parameter, terminated by an entry
with the placeholder member set to NULL.
The new helper is intended to aid converting the remaining calls of
interpolate(). strbuf_expand() is smaller, more flexible and can be
used to go faster than interpolate(), so it should replace the latter.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, the --pretty=format prefix is looked up in a
tight loop in strbuf_expand(), if prefix is found it is then
used as argument for format_commit_item() that does another
search by a switch statement to select the proper operation.
Because the switch statement is already able to discard
unknown matches we don't need the prefix lookup before
to call format_commit_item().
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now the routine is an open-coded loop that avoids an extra
strlen() in the previous implementation, it got a bit too big to
be inlined. Uninlining it makes code footprint smaller but the
result still retains the avoidance of strlen() cost.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Solaris 9's vsnprintf implementation returns -1 if we pass it a
buffer of length 0. The only way to get it to give us the actual
length necessary for the formatted string is to grow the buffer
out to have at least 1 byte available in the strbuf and then ask
it to compute the length.
If the available space is 0 I'm growing it out by 64 to ensure
we will get an accurate length estimate from all implementations.
Some callers may need to grow the strbuf again but 64 should be a
reasonable enough initial growth.
We also no longer silently fail to append to the string when we are
faced with a broken vsnprintf implementation. On Solaris 9 this
silent failure caused me to no longer be able to execute "git clone"
as we tried to exec the empty string rather than "git-clone".
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a new function, strbuf_adddup(), that appends a duplicate of a
part of a struct strbuf to end of the latter.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some of the --pretty=format placeholders expansions are expensive to
calculate. This is made worse by the current code's use of
interpolate(), which requires _all_ placeholders are to be prepared
up front.
One way to speed this up is to check which placeholders are present
in the format string and to prepare only the expansions that are
needed. That still leaves the allocation overhead of interpolate().
Another way is to use a callback based approach together with the
strbuf library to keep allocations to a minimum and avoid string
copies. That's what this patch does. It introduces a new strbuf
function, strbuf_expand().
The function takes a format string, list of placeholder strings,
a user supplied function 'fn', and an opaque pointer 'context'
to tell 'fn' what thingy to operate on.
The function 'fn' is expected to accept a strbuf, a parsed
placeholder string and the 'context' pointer, and append the
interpolated value for the 'context' thingy, according to the
format specified by the placeholder.
Thanks to Pierre Habouzit for his suggestion to use strchrnul() and
the code surrounding its callsite. And thanks to Junio for most of
this commit message. :)
Here my measurements of most of Paul Mackerras' test cases that
highlighted the performance problem (best of three runs):
(master)
$ time git log --pretty=oneline >/dev/null
real 0m0.390s
user 0m0.340s
sys 0m0.040s
(master)
$ time git log --pretty=raw >/dev/null
real 0m0.434s
user 0m0.408s
sys 0m0.016s
(master)
$ time git log --pretty="format:%H {%P} %ct" >/dev/null
real 0m1.347s
user 0m0.080s
sys 0m1.256s
(interp_find_active -- Dscho)
$ time ./git log --pretty="format:%H {%P} %ct" >/dev/null
real 0m0.694s
user 0m0.020s
sys 0m0.672s
(strbuf_expand -- this patch)
$ time ./git log --pretty="format:%H {%P} %ct" >/dev/null
real 0m0.395s
user 0m0.352s
sys 0m0.028s
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* make strbuf_read_file take a size hint (works like strbuf_read)
* use it in a couple of places.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For that purpose, the ->buf is always initialized with a char * buf living
in the strbuf module. It is made a char * so that we can sloppily accept
things that perform: sb->buf[0] = '\0', and because you can't pass "" as an
initializer for ->buf without making gcc unhappy for very good reasons.
strbuf_init/_detach/_grow have been fixed to trust ->alloc and not ->buf
anymore.
as a consequence strbuf_detach is _mandatory_ to detach a buffer, copying
->buf isn't an option anymore, if ->buf is going to escape from the scope,
and eventually be free'd.
API changes:
* strbuf_setlen now always works, so just make strbuf_reset a convenience
macro.
* strbuf_detatch takes a size_t* optional argument (meaning it can be
NULL) to copy the buffer's len, as it was needed for this refactor to
make the code more readable, and working like the callers.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add strbuf_remove, change strbuf_insert:
As both are special cases of strbuf_splice, implement them as such.
gcc is able to do the math and generate almost optimal code this way.
Add strbuf_swap:
Exchange the values of its arguments.
Use it in fast-import.c
Also fix spacing issues in strbuf.h
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
read_line is now strbuf_getline, and is a first class citizen, it returns 0
when reading a line worked, EOF else.
The ->eof marker was used non-locally by fast-import.c, mimic the same
behaviour using a static int in "read_next_command", that now returns -1 on
EOF, and avoids to call strbuf_getline when it's in EOF state.
Also no longer automagically strbuf_release the buffer, it's counter
intuitive and breaks fast-import in a very subtle way.
Note: being at EOF implies that command_buf.len == 0.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* strbuf_splice replace a portion of the buffer with another.
* strbuf_attach replace a strbuf buffer with the given one, that should be
malloc'ed. Then it enforces strbuf's invariants. If alloc > len, then this
function has negligible cost, else it will perform a realloc, possibly
with a cost.
Also some style issues are fixed now.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Add strbuf_rtrim to remove trailing spaces.
* Add strbuf_insert to insert data at a given position.
* Off-by one fix in strbuf_addf: strbuf_avail() does not counts the final
\0 so the overflow test for snprintf is the strict comparison. This is
not critical as the growth mechanism chosen will always allocate _more_
memory than asked, so the second test will not fail. It's some kind of
miracle though.
* Add size extension hints for strbuf_init and strbuf_read. If 0, default
applies, else:
+ initial buffer has the given size for strbuf_init.
+ first growth checks it has at least this size rather than the
default 8192.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The gory details are explained in strbuf.h. The change of semantics this
patch enforces is that the embeded buffer has always a '\0' character after
its last byte, to always make it a C-string. The offs-by-one changes are all
related to that very change.
A strbuf can be used to store byte arrays, or as an extended string
library. The `buf' member can be passed to any C legacy string function,
because strbuf operations always ensure there is a terminating \0 at the end
of the buffer, not accounted in the `len' field of the structure.
A strbuf can be used to generate a string/buffer whose final size is not
really known, and then "strbuf_detach" can be used to get the built buffer,
and keep the wrapping "strbuf" structure usable for further work again.
Other interesting feature: strbuf_grow(sb, size) ensure that there is
enough allocated space in `sb' to put `size' new octets of data in the
buffer. It helps avoiding reallocating data for nothing when the problem the
strbuf helps to solve has a known typical size.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
This is a mechanical clean-up of the way *.c files include
system header files.
(1) sources under compat/, platform sha-1 implementations, and
xdelta code are exempt from the following rules;
(2) the first #include must be "git-compat-util.h" or one of
our own header file that includes it first (e.g. config.h,
builtin.h, pkt-line.h);
(3) system headers that are included in "git-compat-util.h"
need not be included in individual C source files.
(4) "git-compat-util.h" does not have to include subsystem
specific header files (e.g. expat.h).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Fix various things that sparse complains about:
- use NULL instead of 0
- make sure we declare everything properly, or mark it static
- use proper function declarations ("fn(void)" instead of "fn()")
Sparse is always right.
I just remembered why I placed that bogus "sb->len ==0 implies
sb->eof" condition there. We need at least something like this
to catch the normal EOF (that is, line termination immediately
followed by EOF) case. "if (feof(fp))" fires when we have
already read the eof, not when we are about read it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Introduce xmalloc and xrealloc to die gracefully with a descriptive
message when out of memory, rather than taking a SIGSEGV.
Signed-off-by: Christopher Li<chrislgit@chrisli.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch introduces a new program, diff-tree-helper. It reads
output from diff-cache and diff-tree, and produces a patch file.
The diff format customization can be done the same way the
show-diff uses; the same external diff interface introduced by
the previous patch to drive diff from show-diff is used so this
is not surprising.
It is used like the following examples:
$ diff-cache --cached -z <tree> | diff-tree-helper -z -R paths...
$ diff-tree -r -z <tree1> <tree2> | diff-tree-helper -z paths...
- As usual, the use of the -z flag is recommended in the script
to pass NUL-terminated filenames through the pipe between
commands.
- The -R flag is used to generate reverse diff. It does not
matter for diff-tree case, but it is sometimes useful to get
a patch in the desired direction out of diff-cache.
- The paths parameters are used to restrict the paths that
appears in the output. Again this is useful to use with
diff-cache, which, unlike diff-tree, does not take such paths
restriction parameters.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
