"git diff" family of commands learned the "-I<regex>" option to
ignore hunks whose changed lines all match the given pattern.
* mk/diff-ignore-regex:
diff: add -I<regex> that ignores matching changes
merge-base, xdiff: zero out xpparam_t structures
Add a new diff option that enables ignoring changes whose all lines
(changed, removed, and added) match a given regular expression. This is
similar to the -I/--ignore-matching-lines option in standalone diff
utilities and can be used e.g. to ignore changes which only affect code
comments or to look for unrelated changes in commits containing a large
number of automatically applied modifications (e.g. a tree-wide string
replacement). The difference between -G/-S and the new -I option is
that the latter filters output on a per-change basis.
Use the 'ignore' field of xdchange_t for marking a change as ignored or
not. Since the same field is used by --ignore-blank-lines, identical
hunk emitting rules apply for --ignore-blank-lines and -I. These two
options can also be used together in the same git invocation (they are
complementary to each other).
Rename xdl_mark_ignorable() to xdl_mark_ignorable_lines(), to indicate
that it is logically a "sibling" of xdl_mark_ignorable_regex() rather
than its "parent".
Signed-off-by: Michał Kępień <michal@isc.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git commit-graph write" learned to limit the number of bloom
filters that are computed from scratch with the --max-new-filters
option.
* tb/bloom-improvements:
commit-graph: introduce 'commitGraph.maxNewFilters'
builtin/commit-graph.c: introduce '--max-new-filters=<n>'
commit-graph: rename 'split_commit_graph_opts'
bloom: encode out-of-bounds filters as non-empty
bloom/diff: properly short-circuit on max_changes
bloom: use provided 'struct bloom_filter_settings'
bloom: split 'get_bloom_filter()' in two
commit-graph.c: store maximum changed paths
commit-graph: respect 'commitGraph.readChangedPaths'
t/helper/test-read-graph.c: prepare repo settings
commit-graph: pass a 'struct repository *' in more places
t4216: use an '&&'-chain
commit-graph: introduce 'get_bloom_filter_settings()'
Get rid of 'dense' argument that is redundant for every function that has
'struct rev_info *rev' argument as well, as the value of 'dense' passed is
always taken from 'rev->dense_combined_merges' field.
The only place where this was not the case is in 'submodule.c' where
'diff_tree_combined_merge()' was called with '1' for 'dense' argument. However,
at that call the 'revs' instance used is local to the function, and we now just
set 'revs->dense_combined_merges' to 1 in this local instance.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is currently no easy way to take the diff between the working tree
or index and the merge base between an arbitrary commit and HEAD. Even
diff's `...` notation doesn't allow this because it only works between
commits. However, the ability to do this would be desirable to a user
who would like to see all the changes they've made on a branch plus
uncommitted changes without taking into account changes made in the
upstream branch.
Teach diff-index and diff (with one commit) the --merge-base option
which allows a user to use the merge base of a commit and HEAD as the
"before" side.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a future commit, we will be using this function to implement
--merge-base functionality in various diff commands.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a future commit, we will teach run_diff_index() to accept more
options via flag bits. For now, change `cached` into a flag in the
`option` bitfield. The behaviour should remain exactly the same.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit e3696980 (diff: halt tree-diff early after max_changes,
2020-03-30) intended to create a mechanism to short-circuit a diff
calculation after a certain number of paths were modified. By
incrementing a "num_changes" counter throughout the recursive
ll_diff_tree_paths(), this was supposed to match the number of changes
that would be written into the changed-path Bloom filters.
Unfortunately, this was not implemented correctly and instead misses
simple cases like file modifications. This then does not stop very
large changed-path filters from being written (unless they add or remove
many files).
To start, change the implementation in ll_diff_tree_paths() to instead
use the global diff_queue_diff struct's 'nr' member as the count. This
is a way to simplify the logic instead of making more mistakes in the
complicated diff code.
This has a drawback: the diff_queue_diff struct only lists the paths
corresponding to blob changes, not their leading directories. Thus,
get_or_compute_bloom_filter() needs an additional check to see if the
hashmap with the leading directories becomes too large.
One reason why this was not caught by test cases was that the test in
t4216-log-bloom.sh that was supposed to check this "too many changes"
condition only checked this on the initial commit of a repository. The
old logic counted these values correctly. Update this test in a few
ways:
1. Use GIT_TEST_BLOOM_SETTINGS_MAX_CHANGED_PATHS to reduce the limit,
allowing smaller commits to engage with this logic.
2. Create several interesting cases of edits, adds, removes, and mode
changes (in the second commit). By testing both sides of the
inequality with the *_MAX_CHANGED_PATHS variable, we can see that
the count is exactly correct, so none of these changes are missed
or over-counted.
3. Use the trace2 data value filter_found_large to verify that these
commits are on the correct side of the limit.
Another way to verify the behavior is correct is through performance
tests. By testing on my local copies of the Git repository and the Linux
kernel repository, I could measure the effect of these short-circuits
when computing a fresh commit-graph file with changed-path Bloom filters
using the command
GIT_TEST_BLOOM_SETTINGS_MAX_CHANGED_PATHS=N time \
git commit-graph write --reachable --changed-paths
and reporting the wall time and resulting commit-graph size.
For Git, the results are
| | N=1 | N=10 | N=512 |
|--------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
| HEAD~1 | 10.90s 9.18MB | 11.11s 9.34MB | 11.31s 9.35MB |
| HEAD | 9.21s 8.62MB | 11.11s 9.29MB | 11.29s 9.34MB |
For Linux, the results are
| | N=1 | N=20 | N=512 |
|--------|----------------|---------------|---------------|
| HEAD~1 | 61.28s 64.3MB | 76.9s 72.6MB | 77.6s 72.6MB |
| HEAD | 49.44s 56.3MB | 68.7s 65.9MB | 69.2s 65.9MB |
Naturally, the improvement becomes much less as the limit grows, as
fewer commits satisfy the short-circuit.
Reported-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To compute and show an interdiff, show_interdiff() needs only the two
OID's to compare and a diffopts, yet it expects callers to supply an
entire rev_info. The demand for rev_info is not only overkill, but also
places unnecessary burden on potential future callers which might not
otherwise have a rev_info at hand. Address this by tightening its
signature to require only the items it needs instead of a full rev_info.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
show_interdiff() is a relatively small function and not likely to grow
larger or more complicated. Rather than dedicating an entire source file
to it, relocate it to diff-lib.c which houses other "take two things and
compare them" functions meant to be re-used but not so low-level as to
reside in the core diff implementation.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
ll_diff_tree_oid() has only ever returned 0 [1], so it's return value
is basically useless. It's only caller diff_tree_oid() has only ever
returned the return value of ll_diff_tree_oid() as-is [2], so its
return value is just as useless. Most of diff_tree_oid()'s callers
simply ignore its return value, except:
- diff_root_tree_oid() is a thin wrapper around diff_tree_oid() and
returns with its return value, but all of diff_root_tree_oid()'s
callers ignore its return value.
- rev_compare_tree() and rev_same_tree_as_empty() do look at the
return value in a condition, but, since the return value is always
0, the former's < 0 condition is never fulfilled, while the
latter's >= 0 condition is always fulfilled.
So let's drop the return value of ll_diff_tree_oid(), diff_tree_oid()
and diff_root_tree_oid(), and drop those conditions from
rev_compare_tree() and rev_same_tree_as_empty() as well.
[1] ll_diff_tree_oid() and its ancestors have been returning only 0
ever since it was introduced as diff_tree() in 9174026cfe (Add
"diff-tree" program to show which files have changed between two
trees., 2005-04-09).
[2] diff_tree_oid() traces back to diff-tree.c:main() in 9174026cfe as
well.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When computing the changed-paths bloom filters for the commit-graph,
we limit the size of the filter by restricting the number of paths
in the diff. Instead of computing a large diff and then ignoring the
result, it is better to halt the diff computation early.
Create a new "max_changes" option in struct diff_options. If non-zero,
then halt the diff computation after discovering strictly more changed
paths. This includes paths corresponding to trees that change.
Use this max_changes option in the bloom filter calculations. This
reduces the time taken to compute the filters for the Linux kernel
repo from 2m50s to 2m35s. On a large internal repository with ~500
commits that perform tree-wide changes, the time reduced from
6m15s to 3m48s.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Garima Singh <garima.singh@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* hw/doc-in-header:
trace2: move doc to trace2.h
submodule-config: move doc to submodule-config.h
tree-walk: move doc to tree-walk.h
trace: move doc to trace.h
run-command: move doc to run-command.h
parse-options: add link to doc file in parse-options.h
credential: move doc to credential.h
argv-array: move doc to argv-array.h
cache: move doc to cache.h
sigchain: move doc to sigchain.h
pathspec: move doc to pathspec.h
revision: move doc to revision.h
attr: move doc to attr.h
refs: move doc to refs.h
remote: move doc to remote.h and refspec.h
sha1-array: move doc to sha1-array.h
merge: move doc to ll-merge.h
graph: move doc to graph.h and graph.c
dir: move doc to dir.h
diff: move doc to diff.h and diffcore.h
Move the documentation from Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt to both
diff.h and diffcore.h as it's easier for the developers to find the usage
information beside the code instead of looking for it in another doc file.
Also documentation/technical/api-diff.txt is removed because the information
it has is now redundant and it'll be hard to keep it up to date and
synchronized with the documentation in the header files.
There are three members documented in the doc file that weren't found in
the header files, assuming the doc wasn't up to date and the members
no longer exist:
touched_flags, COLOR_DIFF_WORDS and QUIET.
Signed-off-by: Heba Waly <heba.waly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make the diffstat interface (namely, the diffstat_t struct and
compute_diffstat) no longer be internal to diff.c and allow it to be used
by other parts of git.
This is helpful for code that may want to easily extract information
from files using the diff machinery, while flushing it differently from
how the show_* functions used by diff_flush() do it. One example is the
builtin implementation of git-add--interactive's status.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Ferreira <bnmvco@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Slavica Đukić <slawica92@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert the two separate patch-id implementations to use the_hash_algo
in their implementation.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The line count in the outer diff's hunk headers of a range diff is not
all that interesting. It merely shows how far along the inner diff
are on both sides. That number is of no use for human readers, and
range-diffs are not meant to be machine readable.
In a subsequent commit we're going to add some more contextual
information such as the filename corresponding to the diff to the hunk
headers. Remove the unnecessary information, and just keep the "@@"
to indicate that a new hunk of the outer diff is starting.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "--base" option of "format-patch" computed the patch-ids for
prerequisite patches in an unstable way, which has been updated to
compute in a way that is compatible with "git patch-id --stable".
* sb/format-patch-base-patch-id-fix:
format-patch: make --base patch-id output stable
format-patch: inform user that patch-id generation is unstable
A brown-paper-bag bugfix to a change already in 'master'.
* nd/diff-parseopt:
parse-options: check empty value in OPT_INTEGER and OPT_ABBREV
diff-parseopt: restore -U (no argument) behavior
diff-parseopt: correct variable types that are used by parseopt
Most number-related OPT_ macros store the value in an 'int'
variable. Many of the variables in 'struct diff_options' have a
different type, but during the conversion to using parse_options() I
failed to notice and correct.
The problem was reported on s360x which is a big-endian
architechture. The variable to store '-w' option in this case is
xdl_opts, 'long' type, 8 bytes. But since parse_options() assumes
'int' (4 bytes), it will store bits in the wrong part of xdl_opts. The
problem was found on little-endian platforms because parse_options()
will accidentally store at the right part of xdl_opts.
There aren't much to say about the type change (except that 'int' for
xdl_opts should still be big enough, since Windows' long is the same
size as 'int' and nobody has complained so far). Some safety checks may
be implemented in the future to prevent class of bugs.
Reported-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We weren't flushing the context each time we processed a hunk in the
patch-id generation code in diff.c, but we were doing that when we
generated "stable" patch-ids with the 'patch-id' tool. Let's port that
similar logic over from patch-id.c into diff.c so we can get the same
hash when we're generating patch-ids for 'format-patch --base=' types of
command invocations.
Cc: Xiaolong Ye <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff_opt_parse() is a heavy hammer to just set diff filter. But it's
the only way because of the diff_status_letters[] mapping. Add a new
API to set diff filter and use it in git-am. diff_opt_parse()'s only
remaining call site in revision.c will be gone soon and having it here
just because of git-am does not make sense.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While at there, move exit() back to the caller. It's easier to see the
flow that way than burying it in diff-no-index.c
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git diff --no-index" may still want to access Git goodies like
--ext-diff and --textconv, but so far these have been ignored,
which has been corrected.
* jk/diff-no-index-initialize:
diff: reuse diff setup for --no-index case
Code clean-up.
* jk/unused-params:
ref-filter: drop unused "sz" parameters
ref-filter: drop unused "obj" parameters
ref-filter: drop unused buf/sz pairs
files-backend: drop refs parameter from split_symref_update()
pack-objects: drop unused parameter from oe_map_new_pack()
merge-recursive: drop several unused parameters
diff: drop complete_rewrite parameter from run_external_diff()
diff: drop unused emit data parameter from sane_truncate_line()
diff: drop unused color reset parameters
diff: drop options parameter from diffcore_fix_diff_index()
Output from "diff --cc" did not show the original paths when the
merge involved renames. A new option adds the paths in the
original trees to the output.
* en/combined-all-paths:
log,diff-tree: add --combined-all-paths option
When "--no-index" is in effect (or implied by the arguments), git-diff
jumps early to a special code path to perform that diff. This means we
miss out on some settings like enabling --ext-diff and --textconv by
default.
Let's jump to the no-index path _after_ we've done more setup on
rev.diffopt. Since some of the options don't affect us (e.g., items
related to the index), let's re-order the setup into two blocks (see the
in-code comments).
Note that we also need to stop re-initializing the diffopt struct in
diff_no_index(). This should not be necessary, as it will already have
been initialized by cmd_diff() (and there are no other callers). That in
turn lets us drop the "repository" argument from diff_no_index (which
never made much sense, since the whole point is that you don't need a
repository).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The sole purpose of this function is to fix the sorting order of the
queued diff entries. It doesn't need to know about any diff options, so
we can drop the unused parameter.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The combined diff format for merges will only list one filename, even if
rename or copy detection is active. For example, with raw format one
might see:
::100644 100644 100644 fabadb8cc95eb04866510 MM describe.c
::100755 100755 100755 52b7a2d 6d1ac04 d2ac7d7 RM bar.sh
::100644 100644 100644 e07d6c5 9042e82 ee91881 RR phooey.c
This doesn't let us know what the original name of bar.sh was in the
first parent, and doesn't let us know what either of the original names
of phooey.c were in either of the parents. In contrast, for non-merge
commits, raw format does provide original filenames (and a rename score
to boot). In order to also provide original filenames for merge
commits, add a --combined-all-paths option (which must be used with
either -c or --cc, and is likely only useful with rename or copy
detection active) so that we can print tab-separated filenames when
renames are involved. This transforms the above output to:
::100644 100644 100644 fabadb8cc95eb04866510 MM desc.c desc.c desc.c
::100755 100755 100755 52b7a2d 6d1ac04 d2ac7d7 RM foo.sh bar.sh bar.sh
::100644 100644 100644 e07d6c5 9042e82 ee91881 RR fooey.c fuey.c phooey.c
Further, in patch format, this changes the from/to headers so that
instead of just having one "from" header, we get one for each parent.
For example, instead of having
--- a/phooey.c
+++ b/phooey.c
we would see
--- a/fooey.c
--- a/fuey.c
+++ b/phooey.c
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is a preparation step to start using parse_options() to parse
diff/revision options instead of what we have now. There are a couple
of good things from using parse_options():
- better help usage
- easier to add new options
- better completion support
- help usage generation
- better integration with main command option parser. We can just
concat the main command's option array and diffopt's together and
parse all in one go.
- detect colidding options (e.g. --reverse is used by revision code,
so diff code can't use it as long name for -R)
- consistent syntax, e.g. option that takes mandatory argument will
now accept both "--option=value" and "--option value".
The plan is migrate all diff/rev options to parse_options(). Then we
could get rid of diff_opt_parse() and expose parseopts[] directly to
the caller.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Bitfield addresses cannot be passed around in a pointer. This makes it
hard to use parse-options to set/unset them. Turn this struct to
normal integers. This of course increases the size of this struct
multiple times, but since we only have a handful of diff_options
variables around, memory consumption is not at all a concern.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This changes the error handling for the options --color-moved-ws
and --color-moved-ws to be like the rest of the options.
Move the die() call out of parse_color_moved_ws into the parsing
of command line options. As the function returns a bit field, change
its signature to return an unsigned instead of an int; add a new bit
to signal errors. Once the error is signaled, we discard the other
bits, such that it doesn't matter if the error bit overlaps with any
other bit.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Various codepaths in the core-ish part learn to work on an
arbitrary in-core index structure, not necessarily the default
instance "the_index".
* nd/the-index: (23 commits)
revision.c: reduce implicit dependency the_repository
revision.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
ws.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
tree-diff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
submodule.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
line-range.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
userdiff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
rerere.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
sha1-file.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
patch-ids.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
merge.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
merge-blobs.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
ll-merge.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
diff-lib.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
read-cache.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
diff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
grep.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
diff.c: remove the_index dependency in textconv() functions
blame.c: rename "repo" argument to "r"
combine-diff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
...
[jc: squashed in missing forward decl in userdiff.h found by Ramsay]
Helped-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A new variant repo_diff_setup() is added that takes 'struct repository *'
and diff_setup() becomes a thin macro around it that is protected by
NO_THE_REPOSITORY_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS, similar to NO_THE_INDEX_....
The plan is these macros will always be defined for all library files
and the macros are only accessible in builtin/
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff and textconv code has so widespread use that it's hard to simply
update their api and all call sites at once because it would result in
a big patch. For now reduce the_index references to two places:
diff_setup() and fill_textconv().
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The color output support for recently introduced "range-diff"
command got tweaked a bit.
* sb/range-diff-colors:
range-diff: indent special lines as context
range-diff: make use of different output indicators
diff.c: add --output-indicator-{new, old, context}
diff.c: rewrite emit_line_0 more understandably
diff.c: omit check for line prefix in emit_line_0
diff: use emit_line_0 once per line
diff.c: add set_sign to emit_line_0
diff.c: reorder arguments for emit_line_ws_markup
diff.c: simplify caller of emit_line_0
t3206: add color test for range-diff --dual-color
test_decode_color: understand FAINT and ITALIC
This will prove useful in range-diff in a later patch as we will be able to
differentiate between adding a new file (that line is starting with +++
and then the file name) and regular new lines.
It could also be useful for experimentation in new patch formats, i.e.
we could teach git to emit moved lines with lines other than +/-.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git tbdiff" that lets us compare individual patches in two
iterations of a topic has been rewritten and made into a built-in
command.
* js/range-diff: (21 commits)
range-diff: use dim/bold cues to improve dual color mode
range-diff: make --dual-color the default mode
range-diff: left-pad patch numbers
completion: support `git range-diff`
range-diff: populate the man page
range-diff --dual-color: skip white-space warnings
range-diff: offer to dual-color the diffs
diff: add an internal option to dual-color diffs of diffs
color: add the meta color GIT_COLOR_REVERSE
range-diff: use color for the commit pairs
range-diff: add tests
range-diff: do not show "function names" in hunk headers
range-diff: adjust the output of the commit pairs
range-diff: suppress the diff headers
range-diff: indent the diffs just like tbdiff
range-diff: right-trim commit messages
range-diff: also show the diff between patches
range-diff: improve the order of the shown commits
range-diff: first rudimentary implementation
Introduce `range-diff` to compare iterations of a topic branch
...
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>
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>
When diffing diffs, it can be quite daunting to figure out what the heck
is going on, as there are nested +/- signs.
Let's make this easier by adding a flag in diff_options that allows
color-coding the outer diff sign with inverted colors, so that the
preimage and postimage is colored like the diff it is.
Of course, this really only makes sense when the preimage and postimage
*are* diffs. So let's not expose this flag via a command-line option for
now.
This is a feature that was invented by git-tbdiff, and it will be used
by `git range-diff` in the next commit, by offering it via a new option:
`--dual-color`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
