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This algorithm will replace the heuristic used to identify lines from ignored commits with one that finds likely candidate lines in the parent's version of the file. The actual replacement occurs in an upcoming commit. The old heuristic simply assigned lines in the target to the same line number (plus offset) in the parent. The new function uses a fingerprinting algorithm to detect similarity between lines. The new heuristic is designed to accurately match changes made mechanically by formatting tools such as clang-format and clang-tidy. These tools make changes such as breaking up lines to fit within a character limit or changing identifiers to fit with a naming convention. The heuristic is not intended to match more extensive refactoring changes and may give misleading results in such cases. In most cases formatting tools preserve line ordering, so the heuristic is optimised for such cases. (Some types of changes do reorder lines e.g. sorting keep the line content identical, the git blame -M option can already be used to address this). The reason that it is advantageous to rely on ordering is due to source code repeating the same character sequences often e.g. declaring an identifier on one line and using that identifier on several subsequent lines. This means that lines can look very similar to each other which presents a problem when doing fuzzy matching. Relying on ordering gives us extra clues to point towards the true match. The heuristic operates on a single diff chunk change at a time. It creates a “fingerprint” for each line on each side of the change. Fingerprints are described in detail in the comment for `struct fingerprint`, but essentially are a multiset of the character pairs in a line. The heuristic first identifies the line in the target entry whose fingerprint is most clearly matched to a line fingerprint in the parent entry. Where fingerprints match identically, the position of the lines is used as a tie-break. The heuristic locks in the best match, and subtracts the fingerprint of the line in the target entry from the fingerprint of the line in the parent entry to prevent other lines being matched on the same parts of that line. It then repeats the process recursively on the section of the chunk before the match, and then the section of the chunk after the match. Here's an example of the difference the fingerprinting makes. Consider a file with two commits: commit-a 1) void func_1(void *x, void *y); commit-b 2) void func_2(void *x, void *y); After a commit 'X', we have: commit-X 1) void func_1(void *x, commit-X 2) void *y); commit-X 3) void func_2(void *x, commit-X 4) void *y); When we blame-ignored with the old algorithm, we get: commit-a 1) void func_1(void *x, commit-b 2) void *y); commit-X 3) void func_2(void *x, commit-X 4) void *y); Where commit-b is blamed for 2 instead of 3. With the fingerprint algorithm, we get: commit-a 1) void func_1(void *x, commit-a 2) void *y); commit-b 3) void func_2(void *x, commit-b 4) void *y); Note line 2 could be matched with either commit-a or commit-b as it is equally similar to both lines, but is matched with commit-a because its position as a fraction of the new line range is more similar to commit-a as a fraction of the old line range. Line 4 is also equally similar to both lines, but as it appears after line 3 which will be matched first it cannot be matched with an earlier line. For many more examples, see t/t8014-blame-ignore-fuzzy.sh which contains example parent and target files and the line numbers in the parent that must be matched. Signed-off-by: Michael Platings <michael@platin.gs> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> |
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