* 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>
When showing the diff between corresponding patches of the two branch
versions, we have to make up a fake filename to run the diff machinery.
That filename does not carry any meaningful information, hence tbdiff
suppresses it. So we should, too.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git diff --color-moved" feature has further been tweaked.
* sb/diff-color-move-more:
diff.c: offer config option to control ws handling in move detection
diff.c: add white space mode to move detection that allows indent changes
diff.c: factor advance_or_nullify out of mark_color_as_moved
diff.c: decouple white space treatment from move detection algorithm
diff.c: add a blocks mode for moved code detection
diff.c: adjust hash function signature to match hashmap expectation
diff.c: do not pass diff options as keydata to hashmap
t4015: avoid git as a pipe input
xdiff/xdiffi.c: remove unneeded function declarations
xdiff/xdiff.h: remove unused flags
The option of --color-moved has proven to be useful as observed on the
mailing list. However when refactoring sometimes the indentation changes,
for example when partitioning a functions into smaller helper functions
the code usually mostly moved around except for a decrease in indentation.
To just review the moved code ignoring the change in indentation, a mode
to ignore spaces in the move detection as implemented in a previous patch
would be enough. However the whole move coloring as motivated in commit
2e2d5ac (diff.c: color moved lines differently, 2017-06-30), brought
up the notion of the reviewer being able to trust the move of a "block".
As there are languages such as python, which depend on proper relative
indentation for the control flow of the program, ignoring any white space
change in a block would not uphold the promises of 2e2d5ac that allows
reviewers to pay less attention to the inside of a block, as inside
the reviewer wants to assume the same program flow.
This new mode of white space ignorance will take this into account and will
only allow the same white space changes per line in each block. This patch
even allows only for the same change at the beginning of the lines.
As this is a white space mode, it is made exclusive to other white space
modes in the move detection.
This patch brings some challenges, related to the detection of blocks.
We need a wide net to catch the possible moved lines, but then need to
narrow down to check if the blocks are still intact. Consider this
example (ignoring block sizes):
- A
- B
- C
+ A
+ B
+ C
At the beginning of a block when checking if there is a counterpart
for A, we have to ignore all space changes. However at the following
lines we have to check if the indent change stayed the same.
Checking if the indentation change did stay the same, is done by computing
the indentation change by the difference in line length, and then assume
the change is only in the beginning of the longer line, the common tail
is the same. That is why the test contains lines like:
- <TAB> A
...
+ A <TAB>
...
As the first line starting a block is caught using a compare function that
ignores white spaces unlike the rest of the block, where the white space
delta is taken into account for the comparison, we also have to think about
the following situation:
- A
- B
- A
- B
+ A
+ B
+ A
+ B
When checking if the first A (both in the + and - lines) is a start of
a block, we have to check all 'A' and record all the white space deltas
such that we can find the example above to be just one block that is
indented.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the original implementation of the move detection logic the choice for
ignoring white space changes is the same for the move detection as it is
for the regular diff. Some cases came up where different treatment would
have been nice.
Allow the user to specify that white space should be ignored differently
during detection of moved lines than during generation of added and removed
lines. This is done by providing analogs to the --ignore-space-at-eol,
-b, and -w options by introducing the option --color-moved-ws=<modes>
with the modes named "ignore-space-at-eol", "ignore-space-change" and
"ignore-all-space", which is used only during the move detection phase.
As we change the default, we'll adjust the tests.
For now we do not infer any options to treat white spaces in the move
detection from the generic white space options given to diff.
This can be tuned later to reasonable default.
As we plan on adding more white space related options in a later patch,
that interferes with the current white space options, use a flag field
and clamp it down to XDF_WHITESPACE_FLAGS, as that (a) allows to easily
check at parse time if we give invalid combinations and (b) can reuse
parts of this patch.
By having the white space treatment in its own option, we'll also
make it easier for a later patch to have an config option for
spaces in the move detection.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The new "blocks" mode provides a middle ground between plain and zebra.
It is as intuitive (few colors) as plain, but still has the requirement
for a minimum of lines/characters to count a block as moved.
Suggested-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
(https://public-inbox.org/git/87o9j0uljo.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/)
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the ability to control rename detection for merge via a config setting.
This setting behaves the same and defaults to the value of diff.renames but only
applies to merge.
Reviewed-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Helped-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git diff" and friends learned "--compact-summary" that shows the
information usually given with the "--summary" option on the same
line as the diffstat output of the "--stat" option (which saves
vertical space and keeps info on a single path at the same place).
* nd/diff-stat-with-summary:
diff: add --compact-summary
diff.c: refactor pprint_rename() to use strbuf
Certain information is currently shown with --summary, but when used
in combination with --stat it's a bit hard to read since info of the
same file is in two places (--stat and --summary).
On top of that, commits that add or remove files double the number of
display lines, which could be a lot if you add or remove a lot of
files.
--compact-summary embeds most of --summary back in --stat in the
little space between the file name part and the graph line, e.g. with
commit 0433d533f1:
Documentation/merge-config.txt | 4 +
builtin/merge.c | 2 +
...-pull-verify-signatures.sh (new +x) | 81 ++++++++++++++
t/t7612-merge-verify-signatures.sh | 45 ++++++++
4 files changed, 132 insertions(+)
It helps both condensing information and saving some text
space. What's new in diffstat is:
- A new 0644 file is shown as (new)
- A new 0755 file is shown as (new +x)
- A new symlink is shown as (new +l)
- A deleted file is shown as (gone)
- A mode change adding executable bit is shown as (mode +x)
- A mode change removing it is shown as (mode -x)
Note that --compact-summary does not contain all the information
--summary provides. Rewrite percentage is not shown but it could be
added later, like R50% or C20%.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"diff" family of commands learned "--find-object=<object-id>" option
to limit the findings to changes that involve the named object.
* sb/diff-blobfind-pickaxe:
diff: use HAS_MULTI_BITS instead of counting bits manually
diff: properly error out when combining multiple pickaxe options
diffcore: add a pickaxe option to find a specific blob
diff: introduce DIFF_PICKAXE_KINDS_MASK
diff: migrate diff_flags.pickaxe_ignore_case to a pickaxe_opts bit
diff.h: make pickaxe_opts an unsigned bit field
Sometimes users are given a hash of an object and they want to
identify it further (ex.: Use verify-pack to find the largest blobs,
but what are these? or [1])
One might be tempted to extend git-describe to also work with blobs,
such that `git describe <blob-id>` gives a description as
'<commit-ish>:<path>'. This was implemented at [2]; as seen by the sheer
number of responses (>110), it turns out this is tricky to get right.
The hard part to get right is picking the correct 'commit-ish' as that
could be the commit that (re-)introduced the blob or the blob that
removed the blob; the blob could exist in different branches.
Junio hinted at a different approach of solving this problem, which this
patch implements. Teach the diff machinery another flag for restricting
the information to what is shown. For example:
$ ./git log --oneline --find-object=v2.0.0:Makefile
b2feb64309 Revert the whole "ask curl-config" topic for now
47fbfded53 i18n: only extract comments marked with "TRANSLATORS:"
we observe that the Makefile as shipped with 2.0 was appeared in
v1.9.2-471-g47fbfded53 and in v2.0.0-rc1-5-gb2feb6430b. The
reason why these commits both occur prior to v2.0.0 are evil
merges that are not found using this new mechanism.
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/223678/which-commit-has-this-blob
[2] https://public-inbox.org/git/20171028004419.10139-1-sbeller@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently the check whether to perform pickaxing is done via checking
`diffopt->pickaxe`, which contains the command line argument that we
want to pickaxe for. Soon we'll introduce a new type of pickaxing, that
will not store anything in the `.pickaxe` field, so let's migrate the
check to be dependent on pickaxe_opts.
It is not enough to just replace the check for pickaxe by pickaxe_opts,
because flags might be set, but pickaxing was not requested ('-i').
To cope with that, introduce a mask to check only for the bits indicating
the modes of operation.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently flags for pickaxing are found in different places. Unify the
flags into the `pickaxe_opts` field, which will contain any pickaxe related
flags.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This variable is used as a bit field[1], and as we are about to add more
fields, indicate its usage as a bit field by making it unsigned.
[1] containing the bits
#define DIFF_PICKAXE_ALL 1
#define DIFF_PICKAXE_REGEX 2
#define DIFF_PICKAXE_KIND_S 4
#define DIFF_PICKAXE_KIND_G 8
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
