This patch updates the external diff interface engine for the change
to store the symbolic links in the cache, recently done by Kay
Sievers.
The main thing it does is when comparing with the work tree, it
prepares the counterpart to the blob being compared by doing a
readlink followed by sending that result to a temporary file to
be diffed.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch optimizes "diff-cache -p --cached" by avoiding to
inflate blobs into temporary files when the blob recorded in the
cache matches the corresponding file in the work tree. The file
in the work tree is passed as the comparison source in such a
case instead.
This optimization kicks in only when we have already read the
cache this optimization and this is deliberate. Especially,
diff-tree does not use this code, because changes are contained
in small number of files relative to the project size most of
the time, and reading cache is so expensive for a large project
that the cost of reading it outweighs the savings by not
inflating blobs.
Also this patch cleans up the structure passed from diff clients
by removing one unused structure member.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
(slightly updated from the version posted to the GIT mailing list
with small bugfixes).
This patch changes the git-apply-patch-script to exit non-zero when
the patch cannot be applied. Previously, the external diff driver
deliberately ignored the exit status of GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF command,
which was a design mistake. It now stops the processing when
GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF exits non-zero, so the damages from running
git-diff-* with git-apply-patch-script between two wrong trees can be
contained.
The "diff" command line generated by the built-in driver is changed to
always exit 0 in order to match this new behaviour. I know Pasky does
not use GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF yet, so this change should not break Cogito,
either.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It's silly, and it shouldn't matter, but every time I look at
the diffs, I ended up just worrying why "l/" and "k/" as the
prefixes.
Junio says it's a tribute to linux-kernel, but graciously also
said I can change it to something else. So make it "a/" and "b/"
until somebody else complains ;)
Linus says,
The fewer lines there are that don't usually tell a human
anything, the better. Dense is good.
This patch makes the default diff output more dense. This
removes the previous misguided attempt to be cg-patch
compatible.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When diff-cache -p and friends are interrupted, they can leave
their temporary files behind. Also when the external diff
program is killed instead of exiting (this usually happens when
piping the output to a pager, which can cause SIGPIPE when the
user quits viewing the diff early), they incorrectly died
without cleaning their temporary file.
This fixes these problems.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This changes the way the default arguments to diff are built when
diff-cache and friends are invoked with -p and there is no
GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF environment variable. It attempts to be more cg-patch
friendly by:
- Showing diffs against /dev/null to denote added or removed
files;
- Showing file modes for existing files as a comment after the
diff label.
Unfortunately with this change GIT_DIFF_CMD customization cannot
be supported easily anymore, so it has been dropped.
GIT_DIFF_OPTS customization to change diffs from unified to
context is still there, though.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The "base" string already contains any finishing "/", so the way
to get the full pathname is to just concatenate the base and
path directly, with no extra slashes in between.
This introduces three public functions for diff-cache and friends can
use to call out to the GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF program when they wish to.
A normal "add/remove/change" entry is turned into 7-parameter process
invocation of GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF program as before. In addition, the
program can now be called with a single parameter when diff-cache and
friends want to report an unmerged path.
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 reworks the diff-tree-helper and show-diff to further make external
diff command interface simpler.
These commands now honor GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF environment variable which
can point at an arbitrary program that takes 7 parameters:
name file1 file1-sha1 file1-mode file2 file2-sha1 file2-mode
The parameters for an external diff command are as follows:
name this invocation of the command is to emit diff
for the named cache/tree entry.
file1 pathname that holds the contents of the first
file. This can be a file inside the working
tree, or a temporary file created from the blob
object, or /dev/null. The command should not
attempt to unlink it -- the temporary is
unlinked by the caller.
file1-sha1 sha1 hash if file1 is a blob object, or "."
otherwise.
file1-mode mode bits for file1, or "." for a deleted file.
If GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF environment variable is not set, the
default is to invoke diff with the set of parameters old
show-diff used to use. This built-in implementation honors the
GIT_DIFF_CMD and GIT_DIFF_OPTS environment variables as before.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
With this patch, the non-core'ish part of show-diff command that
invokes an external "diff" comand to obtain patches is split
into a separate file. The next patch will introduce a new
command, diff-tree-helper, which uses this common diff interface
to format diff-tree and diff-cache output into a patch form.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
