We use the "buf" strbuf for two things: to read incoming
lines, and as a scratch space for test-expanding the
user-provided format. Let's split this into two variables
with descriptive names, which makes their purpose and
lifetime more clear.
It will also help in a future patch when we start using the
"output" buffer for more expansions.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We don't need to check if the oidset has our object before
we insert it; that's done as part of the insertion. We can
just rely on the return value from oidset_insert(), which
saves one hash lookup per object.
This measurable speedup is tiny and within the run-to-run
noise, but the result is simpler to read, too.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The test 'pack-objects to file can use bitmap' added in 645c432d61
(pack-objects: use reachability bitmap index when generating
non-stdout pack, 2016-09-10) is silently buggy and doesn't check what
it's supposed to.
In 't5310-pack-bitmaps.sh', the 'list_packed_objects' helper function
does what its name implies by running:
git show-index <"$1" | cut -d' ' -f2
The test in question invokes this function like this:
list_packed_objects <packa-$packasha1.idx >packa.objects &&
list_packed_objects <packb-$packbsha1.idx >packb.objects &&
test_cmp packa.objects packb.objects
Note how these two callsites don't specify the name of the pack index
file as the function's parameter, but redirect the function's standard
input from it. This triggers an error message from the shell, as it
has no filename to redirect from in the function, but this error is
ignored, because it happens upstream of a pipe. Consequently, both
invocations produce empty 'pack{a,b}.objects' files, and the
subsequent 'test_cmp' happily finds those two empty files identical.
Fix these two 'list_packed_objects' invocations by specifying the pack
index files as parameters. Furthermore, eliminate the pipe in that
function by replacing it with an &&-chained pair of commands using an
intermediate file, so a failure of 'git show-index' or the shell
redirection will fail the test.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Windows CRT implements O_APPEND "manually": on write() calls, the
file pointer is set to EOF before the data is written. Clearly, this is
not atomic. And in fact, this is the root cause of failures observed in
t5552-skipping-fetch-negotiator.sh and t5503-tagfollow.sh, where
different processes write to the same trace file simultanously; it also
occurred in t5400-send-pack.sh, but there it was worked around in
71406ed4d6 ("t5400: avoid concurrent writes into a trace file",
2017-05-18).
Fortunately, Windows does support atomic O_APPEND semantics using the
file access mode FILE_APPEND_DATA. Provide an implementation that does.
This implementation is minimal in such a way that it only implements
the open modes that are actually used in the Git code base. Emulation
for other modes can be added as necessary later. To become aware of
the necessity early, the unusal error ENOSYS is reported if an
unsupported mode is encountered.
Diagnosed-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Helped-by: Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Side note, since we gain access to the right repository, we can stop
rely on the_repository in this code as well.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use apply_state->repo->index instead of the_index (in most cases,
unless we need to use a temporary index in some functions). Let the
callers (am and apply) tell us what to use, instead of always assuming
to operate on the_index.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We're moving away from the_index in this code. "struct index_state *"
could be added to struct apply_state. But let's aim long term and put
struct repository here instead so that we could even avoid more global
states in the future. The index will be available via
apply_state->repo->index.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
we're going to remove the dependency on the_index by moving 'struct
index_state *' to somewhere inside struct apply_state. Let's make sure
relevant functions have access to this struct now and reduce the diff
noise when the actual conversion happens.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With 'struct archive_args' gaining new repository pointer, we don't
have to assume the_repository in the archive backends anymore.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since attr checking API now take the index, there's no need to set an
index in advance with this call. Most call sites are straightforward
because they either pass the_index or NULL (which defaults back to
the_index previously). There's only one suspicious call site in
unpack-trees.c where it sets a different index.
This code in unpack-trees is about to check out entries from the
new/temporary index after merging is done in it. The attributes will
be used by entry.c code to do crlf conversion if needed. entry.c now
respects struct checkout's istate field, and this field is correctly
set in unpack-trees.c, there should be no regression from this change.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
checkout-index.c needs update because if checkout->istate is NULL,
ie_match_stat() will crash. Previously this is ie_match_stat(&the_index, ..)
so it will not crash, but it is not technically correct either.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Both functions that are updated in this commit are called by
verify_absent(), which is part of the "unpack-trees" operation that is
supposed to work on any index file specified by the caller. Thanks to
Brandon [1] [2], an implicit dependency on the_index is exposed. This
commit fixes it.
In both functions, it makes sense to use src_index to check for
exclusion because it's almost unchanged and should give us the same
outcome as if running the exclude check before the unpack.
It's "almost unchanged" because we do invalidate cache-tree and
untracked cache in the source index. But this should not affect how
exclude machinery uses the index: to see if a file is tracked, and to
read a blob from the index instead of worktree if it's marked
skip-worktree (i.e. it's not available in worktree)
[1] a0bba65b10 (dir: convert is_excluded to take an index - 2017-05-05
[2] 2c1eb10454 (dir: convert read_directory to take an index - 2017-05-05)
Helped-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Prior to fba92be8f7, this code implicitly (and incorrectly) assumes
the_index when running the exclude machinery. fba92be8f7 helps show
this problem clearer because unpack-trees operation is supposed to
work on whatever index the caller specifies... not specifically
the_index.
Update the code to use "istate" argument that's originally from
mark_new_skip_worktree(). From the call sites, both in unpack_trees(),
you can see that this function works on two separate indexes:
o->src_index and o->result. The second mark_new_skip_worktree() so far
has incorecctly applied exclude rules on o->src_index instead of
o->result. It's unclear what is the consequences of this, but it's
definitely wrong.
[1] fba92be8f7 (dir: convert is_excluded_from_list to take an index -
2017-05-05)
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This function mark_new_skip_worktree() has an argument named the_index
which is also the name of a global variable. While they have different
types (the global the_index is not a pointer) mistakes can easily
happen and it's also confusing for readers. Rename the function
argument to something other than the_index.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
write_eolinfo() does take an istate as function argument and it should
be used instead of the_index.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make the match_patchspec API and friends take an index_state instead
of assuming the_index in dir.c. All external call sites are converted
blindly to keep the patch simple and retain current behavior.
Individual call sites may receive further updates to use the right
index instead of the_index.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make the convert API take an index_state instead of assuming the_index
in convert.c. All external call sites are converted blindly to keep
the patch simple and retain current behavior. Individual call sites
may receive further updates to use the right index instead of
the_index.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make the attr API take an index_state instead of assuming the_index in
attr code. All call sites are converted blindly to keep the patch
simple and retain current behavior. Individual call sites may receive
further updates to use the right index instead of the_index.
There is one ugly temporary workaround added in attr.c that needs some
more explanation.
Commit c24f3abace (apply: file commited with CRLF should roundtrip
diff and apply - 2017-08-19) forces one convert_to_git() call to NOT
read the index at all. But what do you know, we read it anyway by
falling back to the_index. When "istate" from convert_to_git is now
propagated down to read_attr_from_array() we will hit segfault
somewhere inside read_blob_data_from_index.
The right way of dealing with this is to kill "use_index" variable and
only follow "istate" but at this stage we are not ready for that:
while most git_attr_set_direction() calls just passes the_index to be
assigned to use_index, unpack-trees passes a different one which is
used by entry.c code, which has no way to know what index to use if we
delete use_index. So this has to be done later.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This puts update_main_cache_tree() and write_cache_as_tree() in the
same group of "index compat" functions that assume the_index
implicitly, which should only be used within builtin/ or t/helper.
sequencer.c is also updated to not use these functions. As of now, no
files outside builtin/ use these functions anymore.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This code is only needed for diff-tree (since f0c6b2a2fd ([PATCH]
Optimize diff-tree -[CM] --stdin - 2005-05-27)). Let the caller do the
preparation instead and avoid read_index() in diff.c code.
read_index() should be avoided (in addition to the_index) because it
uses get_index_file() underneath to get the path $GIT_DIR/index. This
effectively pulls the_repository in and may become the only reason to
pull a 'struct repository *' in diff.c. Let's keep the dependencies as
few as possible and kick it back to diff-tree.c
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If you're going to access the contents of every object in a
packfile, it's generally much more efficient to do so in
pack order, rather than in hash order. That increases the
locality of access within the packfile, which in turn is
friendlier to the delta base cache, since the packfile puts
related deltas next to each other. By contrast, hash order
is effectively random, since the sha1 has no discernible
relationship to the content.
This patch introduces an "--unordered" option to cat-file
which iterates over packs in pack-order under the hood. You
can see the results when dumping all of the file content:
$ time ./git cat-file --batch-all-objects --buffer --batch | wc -c
6883195596
real 0m44.491s
user 0m42.902s
sys 0m5.230s
$ time ./git cat-file --unordered \
--batch-all-objects --buffer --batch | wc -c
6883195596
real 0m6.075s
user 0m4.774s
sys 0m3.548s
Same output, different order, way faster. The same speed-up
applies even if you end up accessing the object content in a
different process, like:
git cat-file --batch-all-objects --buffer --batch-check |
grep blob |
git cat-file --batch='%(objectname) %(rest)' |
wc -c
Adding "--unordered" to the first command drops the runtime
in git.git from 24s to 3.5s.
Side note: there are actually further speedups available
for doing it all in-process now. Since we are outputting
the object content during the actual pack iteration, we
know where to find the object and could skip the extra
lookup done by oid_object_info(). This patch stops short
of that optimization since the underlying API isn't ready
for us to make those sorts of direct requests.
So if --unordered is so much better, why not make it the
default? Two reasons:
1. We've promised in the documentation that --batch-all-objects
outputs in hash order. Since cat-file is plumbing,
people may be relying on that default, and we can't
change it.
2. It's actually _slower_ for some cases. We have to
compute the pack revindex to walk in pack order. And
our de-duplication step uses an oidset, rather than a
sort-and-dedup, which can end up being more expensive.
If we're just accessing the type and size of each
object, for example, like:
git cat-file --batch-all-objects --buffer --batch-check
my best-of-five warm cache timings go from 900ms to
1100ms using --unordered. Though it's possible in a
cold-cache or under memory pressure that we could do
better, since we'd have better locality within the
packfile.
And one final question: why is it "--unordered" and not
"--pack-order"? The answer is again two-fold:
1. "pack order" isn't a well-defined thing across the
whole set of objects. We're hitting loose objects, as
well as objects in multiple packs, and the only
ordering we're promising is _within_ a single pack. The
rest is apparently random.
2. The point here is optimization. So we don't want to
promise any particular ordering, but only to say that
we will choose an ordering which is likely to be
efficient for accessing the object content. That leaves
the door open for further changes in the future without
having to add another compatibility option.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We're not really doing the batch-show operation in these
callbacks, but just collecting the set of objects. That
distinction will become more important in a future patch, so
let's rename them now to avoid cluttering that diff.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The test for --batch-all-objects in t1006 covers a variety
of object storage situations, but one thing it doesn't cover
is that we avoid mentioning duplicate objects. We won't have
any because running "git repack -ad" will have packed them
all and deleted the loose ones.
This does work (because we sort and de-dup the output list),
but it's good to include it in our test. And doubly so for
when we add an unordered mode which has to de-dup in a
different way.
Note that we cannot just re-create one of the objects, as
Git will omit the write of an object that is already
present. However, we can create a new pack with one of the
objects, which forces the duplication.
One alternative would be to just use "git repack -a" instead
of "-ad". But then _every_ object would be duplicated as
loose and packed, and we might miss a bug that omits packed
objects (because we'd show their loose counterparts).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We currently iterate over objects within a pack in .idx
order, which uses the object hashes. That means that it
is effectively random with respect to the location of the
object within the pack. If you're going to access the actual
object data, there are two reasons to move linearly through
the pack itself:
1. It improves the locality of access in the packfile. In
the cold-cache case, this may mean fewer disk seeks, or
better usage of disk cache.
2. We store related deltas together in the packfile. Which
means that the delta base cache can operate much more
efficiently if we visit all of those related deltas in
sequence, as the earlier items are likely to still be
in the cache. Whereas if we visit the objects in
random order, our cache entries are much more likely to
have been evicted by unrelated deltas in the meantime.
So in general, if you're going to access the object contents
pack order is generally going to end up more efficient.
But if you're simply generating a list of object names, or
if you're going to end up sorting the result anyway, you're
better off just using the .idx order, as finding the pack
order means generating the in-memory pack-revindex.
According to the numbers in 8b8dfd5132 (pack-revindex:
radix-sort the revindex, 2013-07-11), that takes about 200ms
for linux.git, and 20ms for git.git (those numbers are a few
years old but are still a good ballpark).
That makes it a good optimization for some cases (we can
save tens of seconds in git.git by having good locality of
delta access, for a 20ms cost), but a bad one for others
(e.g., right now "cat-file --batch-all-objects
--batch-check="%(objectname)" is 170ms in git.git, so adding
20ms to that is noticeable).
Hence this patch makes it an optional flag. You can't
actually do any interesting timings yet, as it's not plumbed
through to any user-facing tools like cat-file. That will
come in a later patch.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We already mention the local/alternate behavior of these
functions, but we can help clarify a few other behaviors:
- there's no need to mention LOCAL_ONLY specifically, since
we already reference the flags by type (and as we add
more flags, we don't want to have to mention each)
- clarify that reachability doesn't matter here; this is
all accessible objects
- what ordering/uniqueness guarantees we give
- how pack-specific flags are handled for the loose case
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's not wrong to pass our flags in an "unsigned", as we
know it will be at least as large as the enum. However,
using the enum in the declaration makes it more obvious
where to find the list of flags.
While we're here, let's also drop the "extern" noise-words
from the declarations, per our modern coding style.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These flags were split between cache.h and packfile.h,
because some of the flags apply only to packs. However, they
share a single numeric namespace, since both are respected
for the packed variant. Let's make sure they're defined
together so that nobody accidentally adds a new flag in one
location that duplicates the other.
While we're here, let's also put them in an enum (which
helps debugger visibility) and use "(1<<n)" rather than
counting powers of 2 manually.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It should be "is not an empty string" not "is not empty string". This
fixes wording originally introduced in ab9b31386b ("Documentation:
multi-head fetch.", 2005-08-24).
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Correct a comment referring to the removal of just the branch to also
refer to the tag. This should have been changed in my
ca3065e7e7 ("fetch tests: add a tag to be deleted to the pruning
tests", 2018-02-09) when the tag deletion was added, but I missed it
at the time.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This extract from contrib/subtree/t7900 triggered a false positive due
to three chainlint limitations:
* recognizing only a "blessed" set of here-doc tag names in a subshell
("EOF", "EOT", "INPUT_END"), of which "TXT" is not a member
* inability to recognize multi-line $(...) when the first statement of
the body is cuddled with the opening "$("
* inability to recognize multiple constructs on a single line, such as
opening a multi-line $(...) and starting a here-doc
Now that all of these shortcomings have been addressed, turn this rather
pathological bit of shell coding into a chainlint test case.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
chainlint.sed recognizes multi-line quoted strings within subshells:
echo "abc
def" >out &&
so it can avoid incorrectly classifying lines internal to the string as
breaking the &&-chain. To identify the first line of a multi-line
string, it checks if the line contains a single quote. However, this is
fragile and can be easily fooled by a line containing multiple strings:
echo "xyz" "abc
def" >out &&
Make detection more robust by checking for an odd number of quotes
rather than only a single one.
(Escaped quotes are not handled, but support may be added later.)
The original multi-line string recognizer rather cavalierly threw away
all but the final quote, whereas the new one is careful to retain all
quotes, so the "expected" output of a couple existing chainlint tests is
updated to account for this new behavior.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After swallowing a here-doc, chainlint.sed assumes that no other
processing needs to be done on the line aside from checking for &&-chain
breakage; likewise, after folding a multi-line quoted string. However,
it's conceivable (even if unlikely in practice) that both a here-doc and
a multi-line quoted string might commence on the same line:
cat <<\EOF && echo "foo
bar"
data
EOF
Support this case by sending the line (after swallowing and folding)
through the normal processing sequence rather than jumping directly to
the check for broken &&-chain.
This change also allows other somewhat pathological cases to be handled,
such as closing a subshell on the same line starting a here-doc:
(
cat <<-\INPUT)
data
INPUT
or, for instance, opening a multi-line $(...) expression on the same
line starting a here-doc:
x=$(cat <<-\END &&
data
END
echo "x")
among others.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For multi-line $(...) expressions nested within subshells, chainlint.sed
only recognizes:
x=$(
echo foo &&
...
but it is not unlikely that test authors may also cuddle the command
with the opening "$(", so support that style, as well:
x=$(echo foo &&
...
The closing ")" is already correctly recognized when cuddled or not.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A here-doc tag can be quoted ('EOF') or escaped (\EOF) to suppress
interpolation within the body. Although, chainlint recognizes escaped
tags, it does not know about quoted tags. For completeness, teach it to
recognize quoted tags, as well.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
chainlint.sed swallows top-level here-docs to avoid being fooled by
content which might look like start-of-subshell. It likewise swallows
here-docs in subshells to avoid marking content lines as breaking the
&&-chain, and to avoid being fooled by content which might look like
end-of-subshell, start-of-nested-subshell, or other specially-recognized
constructs.
At the time of implementation, it was believed that it was not possible
to support arbitrary here-doc tag names since 'sed' provides no way to
stash the opening tag name in a variable for later comparison against a
line signaling end-of-here-doc. Consequently, tag names are hard-coded,
with "EOF" being the only tag recognized at the top-level, and only
"EOF", "EOT", and "INPUT_END" being recognized within subshells. Also,
special care was taken to avoid being confused by here-docs nested
within other here-docs.
In practice, this limited number of hard-coded tag names has been "good
enough" for the 13000+ existing Git test, despite many of those tests
using tags other than the recognized ones, since the bodies of those
here-docs do not contain content which would fool the linter.
Nevertheless, the situation is not ideal since someone writing new
tests, and choosing a name not in the "blessed" set could potentially
trigger a false-positive.
To address this shortcoming, upgrade chainlint.sed to handle arbitrary
here-doc tag names, both at the top-level and within subshells.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Eliminate an unnecessary prompt to continue after failed merger, by
not calling the prompt_after_failed_merge function when only one
iteration remains.
Uses positional parameters to count files in the list to make it
easier to see if we have any more paths to process from within the
loop.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Guriev <guriev-ns@ya.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Two tests added in dade47c06c (commit-graph: add repo arg to graph
readers, 2018-07-11) prepare the contents of 'expect' files by
'echo'ing the results of command substitutions. That's unncessary,
avoid them by directly saving the output of the commands executed in
those command substitutions.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The commit-graph files are binary files, so they should not be
compared with 'test_cmp', because that might cause issues like
crashing[1] or infinite loop[2] on Windows, where 'test_cmp' is a
shell function to deal with random LF-CRLF conversions[3].
Use 'test_cmp_bin' instead.
1 - b93e6e3663 (t5000, t5003: do not use test_cmp to compare binary
files, 2014-06-04)
2 - f9f3851b4d (t9300: use test_cmp_bin instead of test_cmp to compare
binary files, 2014-09-12)
3 - 4d715ac05c (Windows: a test_cmp that is agnostic to random LF <>
CRLF conversions, 2013-10-26)
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It *is* a confusing thing to look at a diff of diffs. All too easy is it
to mix up whether the -/+ markers refer to the "inner" or the "outer"
diff, i.e. whether a `+` indicates that a line was added by either the
old or the new diff (or both), or whether the new diff does something
different than the old diff.
To make things easier to process for normal developers, we introduced
the dual color mode which colors the lines according to the commit diff,
i.e. lines that are added by a commit (whether old, new, or both) are
colored in green. In non-dual color mode, the lines would be colored
according to the outer diff: if the old commit added a line, it would be
colored red (because that line addition is only present in the first
commit range that was specified on the command-line, i.e. the "old"
commit, but not in the second commit range, i.e. the "new" commit).
However, this dual color mode is still not making things clear enough,
as we are looking at two levels of diffs, and we still only pick a color
according to *one* of them (the outer diff marker is colored
differently, of course, but in particular with deep indentation, it is
easy to lose track of that outer diff marker's background color).
Therefore, let's add another dimension to the mix. Still use
green/red/normal according to the commit diffs, but now also dim the
lines that were only in the old commit, and use bold face for the lines
that are only in the new commit.
That way, it is much easier not to lose track of, say, when we are
looking at a line that was added in the previous iteration of a patch
series but the new iteration adds a slightly different version: the
obsolete change will be dimmed, the current version of the patch will be
bold.
At least this developer has a much easier time reading the range-diffs
that way.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After using this command extensively for the last two months, this
developer came to the conclusion that even if the dual color mode still
leaves a lot of room for confusion about what was actually changed, the
non-dual color mode is substantially worse in that regard.
Therefore, we really want to make the dual color mode the default.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As pointed out by Elijah Newren, tbdiff has this neat little alignment
trick where it outputs the commit pairs with patch numbers that are
padded to the maximal patch number's width:
1: cafedead = 1: acefade first patch
[...]
314: beefeada < 314: facecab up to PI!
Let's do the same in range-diff, too.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tab completion of `git range-diff` is very convenient, especially
given that the revision arguments to specify the commit ranges to
compare are typically more complex than, say, what is normally passed
to `git log`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
