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René Scharfe 9ed0d8d6e6 use QSORT
Apply the semantic patch contrib/coccinelle/qsort.cocci to the code
base, replacing calls of qsort(3) with QSORT.  The resulting code is
shorter and supports empty arrays with NULL pointers.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-29 15:42:18 -07:00
René Scharfe 50492f7b38 pass constants as first argument to st_mult()
The result of st_mult() is the same no matter the order of its
arguments.  It invokes the macro unsigned_mult_overflows(), which
divides the second parameter by the first one.  Pass constants
first to allow that division to be done already at compile time.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-01 14:01:03 -07:00
brian m. carlson 41c9560ee5 diff: rename struct diff_filespec's sha1_valid member
Now that this struct's sha1 member is called "oid", update the comment
and the sha1_valid member to be called "oid_valid" instead.  The
following Coccinelle semantic patch was used to implement this, followed
by the transformations in object_id.cocci:

@@
struct diff_filespec o;
@@
- o.sha1_valid
+ o.oid_valid

@@
struct diff_filespec *p;
@@
- p->sha1_valid
+ p->oid_valid

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28 11:39:02 -07:00
brian m. carlson a0d12c4433 diff: convert struct diff_filespec to struct object_id
Convert struct diff_filespec's sha1 member to use a struct object_id
called "oid" instead.  The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used
to implement this, followed by the transformations in object_id.cocci:

@@
struct diff_filespec o;
@@
- o.sha1
+ o.oid.hash

@@
struct diff_filespec *p;
@@
- p->sha1
+ p->oid.hash

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28 11:39:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 26effb8487 Merge branch 'sg/diff-multiple-identical-renames'
"git diff -M" used to work better when two originally identical
files A and B got renamed to X/A and X/B by pairing A to X/A and B
to X/B, but this was broken in the 2.0 timeframe.

* sg/diff-multiple-identical-renames:
  diffcore: fix iteration order of identical files during rename detection
2016-04-13 14:12:32 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor ca4e3ca029 diffcore: fix iteration order of identical files during rename detection
If the two paths 'dir/A/file' and 'dir/B/file' have identical content
and the parent directory is renamed, e.g. 'git mv dir other-dir', then
diffcore reports the following exact renames:

    renamed:    dir/B/file -> other-dir/A/file
    renamed:    dir/A/file -> other-dir/B/file

While technically not wrong, this is confusing not only for the user,
but also for git commands that make decisions based on rename
information, e.g. 'git log --follow other-dir/A/file' follows
'dir/B/file' past the rename.

This behavior is a side effect of commit v2.0.0-rc4~8^2~14
(diffcore-rename.c: simplify finding exact renames, 2013-11-14): the
hashmap storing sources returns entries from the same bucket, i.e.
sources matching the current destination, in LIFO order.  Thus the
iteration first examines 'other-dir/A/file' and 'dir/B/file' and, upon
finding identical content and basename, reports an exact rename.

Other hashmap users are apparently happy with the current iteration
order over the entries of a bucket.  Changing the iteration order
would risk upsetting other hashmap users and would increase the memory
footprint of each bucket by a pointer to the tail element.

Fill the hashmap with source entries in reverse order to restore the
original exact rename detection behavior.

Reported-by: Bill Okara <billokara@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-03-30 13:46:04 -07:00
Jeff King 50a6c8efa2 use st_add and st_mult for allocation size computation
If our size computation overflows size_t, we may allocate a
much smaller buffer than we expected and overflow it. It's
probably impossible to trigger an overflow in most of these
sites in practice, but it is easy enough convert their
additions and multiplications into overflow-checking
variants. This may be fixing real bugs, and it makes
auditing the code easier.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-22 14:51:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 2d659f7d6e Merge branch 'jk/diffcore-rename-duplicate'
A corrupt input to "git diff -M" can cause us to segfault.

* jk/diffcore-rename-duplicate:
  diffcore-rename: avoid processing duplicate destinations
  diffcore-rename: split locate_rename_dst into two functions
2015-03-10 13:52:39 -07:00
Jeff King 4d6be03b95 diffcore-rename: avoid processing duplicate destinations
The rename code cannot handle an input where we have
duplicate destinations (i.e., more than one diff_filepair in
the queue with the same string in its pair->two->path). We
end up allocating only one slot in the rename_dst mapping.
If we fill in the diff_filepair for that slot, when we
re-queue the results, we may queue that filepair multiple
times. When the diff is finally flushed, the filepair is
processed and free()d multiple times, leading to heap
corruption.

This situation should only happen when a tree diff sees
duplicates in one of the trees (see the added test for a
detailed example). Rather than handle it, the sanest thing
is just to turn off rename detection altogether for the
diff.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-02-27 13:41:29 -08:00
Jeff King f98c2f7e53 diffcore-rename: split locate_rename_dst into two functions
This function manages the mapping of destination pathnames
to filepairs, and it handles both insertion and lookup. This
makes the return value a bit confusing, as we return a newly
created entry (even though no caller cares), and have no
room to indicate to the caller that an entry already
existed.

Instead, let's break this up into two distinct functions,
both backed by a common binary search. The binary search
will use our normal "return the index if we found something,
or negative index minus one to show where it would have
gone" semantics.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-02-27 13:41:21 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy 8e5dd3d654 diff.c: allow to pass more flags to diff_populate_filespec
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-08-18 10:16:35 -07:00
Karsten Blees ab73a9d119 hashmap: add simplified hashmap_get_from_hash() API
Hashmap entries are typically looked up by just a key. The hashmap_get()
API expects an initialized entry structure instead, to support compound
keys. This flexibility is currently only needed by find_dir_entry() in
name-hash.c (and compat/win32/fscache.c in the msysgit fork). All other
(currently five) call sites of hashmap_get() have to set up a near emtpy
entry structure, resulting in duplicate code like this:

  struct hashmap_entry keyentry;
  hashmap_entry_init(&keyentry, hash(key));
  return hashmap_get(map, &keyentry, key);

Add a hashmap_get_from_hash() API that allows hashmap lookups by just
specifying the key and its hash code, i.e.:

  return hashmap_get_from_hash(map, hash(key), key);

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-07-07 13:56:35 -07:00
Karsten Blees 039dc71a7c hashmap: factor out getting a hash code from a SHA1
Copying the first bytes of a SHA1 is duplicated in six places,
however, the implications (the actual value would depend on the
endianness of the platform) is documented only once.

Add a properly documented API for this.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-07-07 13:56:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano fe9122a352 Merge branch 'dd/use-alloc-grow'
Replace open-coded reallocation with ALLOC_GROW() macro.

* dd/use-alloc-grow:
  sha1_file.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in pretend_sha1_file()
  read-cache.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in add_index_entry()
  builtin/mktree.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in append_to_tree()
  attr.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in handle_attr_line()
  dir.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in create_simplify()
  reflog-walk.c: use ALLOC_GROW()
  replace_object.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in register_replace_object()
  patch-ids.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in add_commit()
  diffcore-rename.c: use ALLOC_GROW()
  diff.c: use ALLOC_GROW()
  commit.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in register_commit_graft()
  cache-tree.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in find_subtree()
  bundle.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in add_to_ref_list()
  builtin/pack-objects.c: use ALLOC_GROW() in check_pbase_path()
2014-03-18 13:50:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 0963008cbf Merge branch 'nd/i18n-progress'
Mark the progress indicators from various time-consuming commands
for i18n/l10n.

* nd/i18n-progress:
  i18n: mark all progress lines for translation
2014-03-14 14:26:31 -07:00
Dmitry S. Dolzhenko 337ce247e3 diffcore-rename.c: use ALLOC_GROW()
Use ALLOC_GROW() instead of open-coding it in locate_rename_dst()
and register_rename_src().

Signed-off-by: Dmitry S. Dolzhenko <dmitrys.dolzhenko@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-03 14:49:02 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy 754dbc43f0 i18n: mark all progress lines for translation
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-24 09:08:37 -08:00
Karsten Blees f79d9c5814 diffcore-rename.c: use new hash map implementation
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-18 13:04:23 -08:00
Karsten Blees 7c85f8acb2 diffcore-rename.c: simplify finding exact renames
The find_exact_renames function currently only uses the hash table for
grouping, i.e.:

1. add sources
2. add destinations
3. iterate all buckets, per bucket:
4. split sources from destinations
5. iterate destinations, per destination:
6. iterate sources to find best match

This can be simplified by utilizing the lookup functionality of the hash
table, i.e.:

1. add sources
2. iterate destinations, per destination:
3. lookup sources matching the current destination
4. iterate sources to find best match

This saves several iterations and file_similarity allocations for the
destinations.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-18 13:04:23 -08:00
Karsten Blees 48f6407ffe diffcore-rename.c: move code around to prepare for the next patch
No actual code changes, just move hash_filespec up and outdent part of
find_identical_files.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-18 13:04:22 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy c73592812d Preallocate hash tables when the number of inserts are known in advance
This avoids unnecessary re-allocations and reinsertions. On webkit.git
(i.e. about 182k inserts to the name hash table), this reduces about
100ms out of 3s user time.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-16 22:57:29 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 3b753148b6 Merge branch 'jk/maint-null-in-trees'
We do not want a link to 0{40} object stored anywhere in our objects.

* jk/maint-null-in-trees:
  fsck: detect null sha1 in tree entries
  do not write null sha1s to on-disk index
  diff: do not use null sha1 as a sentinel value
2012-08-27 11:54:28 -07:00
Jeff King e54501004a diff: do not use null sha1 as a sentinel value
The diff code represents paths using the diff_filespec
struct. This struct has a sha1 to represent the sha1 of the
content at that path, as well as a sha1_valid member which
indicates whether its sha1 field is actually useful. If
sha1_valid is not true, then the filespec represents a
working tree file (e.g., for the no-index case, or for when
the index is not up-to-date).

The diff_filespec is only used internally, though. At the
interfaces to the diff subsystem, callers feed the sha1
directly, and we create a diff_filespec from it. It's at
that point that we look at the sha1 and decide whether it is
valid or not; callers may pass the null sha1 as a sentinel
value to indicate that it is not.

We should not typically see the null sha1 coming from any
other source (e.g., in the index itself, or from a tree).
However, a corrupt tree might have a null sha1, which would
cause "diff --patch" to accidentally diff the working tree
version of a file instead of treating it as a blob.

This patch extends the edges of the diff interface to accept
a "sha1_valid" flag whenever we accept a sha1, and to use
that flag when creating a filespec. In some cases, this
means passing the flag through several layers, making the
code change larger than would be desirable.

One alternative would be to simply die() upon seeing
corrupted trees with null sha1s. However, this fix more
directly addresses the problem (while bogus sha1s in a tree
are probably a bad thing, it is really the sentinel
confusion sending us down the wrong code path that is what
makes it devastating). And it means that git is more capable
of examining and debugging these corrupted trees. For
example, you can still "diff --raw" such a tree to find out
when the bogus entry was introduced; you just cannot do a
"--patch" diff (just as you could not with any other
corrupted tree, as we do not have any content to diff).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-29 15:04:32 -07:00
Jeff King 90d43b0768 teach diffcore-rename to optionally ignore empty content
Our rename detection is a heuristic, matching pairs of
removed and added files with similar or identical content.
It's unlikely to be wrong when there is actual content to
compare, and we already take care not to do inexact rename
detection when there is not enough content to produce good
results.

However, we always do exact rename detection, even when the
blob is tiny or empty. It's easy to get false positives with
an empty blob, simply because it is an obvious content to
use as a boilerplate (e.g., when telling git that an empty
directory is worth tracking via an empty .gitignore).

This patch lets callers specify whether or not they are
interested in using empty files as rename sources and
destinations. The default is "yes", keeping the original
behavior. It works by detecting the empty-blob sha1 for
rename sources and destinations.

One more flexible alternative would be to allow the caller
to specify a minimum size for a blob to be "interesting" for
rename detection. But that would catch small boilerplate
files, not large ones (e.g., if you had the GPL COPYING file
in many directories).

A better alternative would be to allow a "-rename"
gitattribute to allow boilerplate files to be marked as
such. I'll leave the complexity of that solution until such
time as somebody actually wants it. The complaints we've
seen so far revolve around empty files, so let's start with
the simple thing.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-23 13:52:49 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 2db8926236 Merge branch 'mz/maint-rename-unmerged'
* mz/maint-rename-unmerged:
  diffcore-rename: don't consider unmerged path as source
2011-05-02 15:58:27 -07:00
Jim Meyering dabdbee10b diffcore-rename.c: avoid set-but-not-used warning
Since 9d8a5a5 (diffcore-rename: refactor "too many candidates" logic,
2011-01-06), diffcore_rename() initializes num_src but does not use it
anymore.  "-Wunused-but-set-variable" in gcc-4.6 complains about this.

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-29 08:20:10 -07:00
Martin von Zweigbergk d7c9bf2235 diffcore-rename: don't consider unmerged path as source
Since e9c8409 (diff-index --cached --raw: show tree entry on the LHS for
unmerged entries., 2007-01-05), an unmerged entry should be detected by
using DIFF_PAIR_UNMERGED(p), not by noticing both one and two sides of
the filepair records mode=0 entries. However, it forgot to update some
parts of the rename detection logic.

This only makes difference in the "diff --cached" codepath where an
unmerged filepair carries information on the entries that came from the
tree.  It probably hasn't been noticed for a long time because nobody
would run "diff -M" during a conflict resolution, but "git status" uses
rename detection when it internally runs "diff-index" and "diff-files"
and gives nonsense results.

In an unmerged pair, "one" side can have a valid filespec to record the
tree entry (e.g. what's in HEAD) when running "diff --cached". This can
be used as a rename source to other paths in the index that are not
unmerged. The path that is unmerged by definition does not have the
final content yet (i.e. "two" side cannot have a valid filespec), so it
can never be a rename destination.

Use the DIFF_PAIR_UNMERGED() to detect unmerged filepair correctly, and
allow the valid "one" side of an unmerged filepair to be considered a
potential rename source, but never to be considered a rename destination.

Commit message and first two test cases by Junio, the rest by Martin.

Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-23 22:44:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano f31027c99c diffcore-rename: fall back to -C when -C -C busts the rename limit
When there are too many paths in the project, the number of rename source
candidates "git diff -C -C" finds will exceed the rename detection limit,
and no inexact rename detection is performed.  We however could fall back
to "git diff -C" if the number of modified paths is sufficiently small.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-22 14:29:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano e88d6bc6f9 diffcore-rename: record filepair for rename src
This will allow us to later skip unmodified entries added due to "-C -C".
We might also want to do something similar to rename_dst side, but that
would only be for the sake of symmetry and not necessary for this series.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-22 14:29:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 9d8a5a50b7 diffcore-rename: refactor "too many candidates" logic
Move the logic to a separate function, to be enhanced by later patches in
the series.

While at it, swap the condition used in the if statement from "if it is
too big then do this" to "if it would fit then do this".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

---

 Rebased to 'master' as the logic to use the result of this logic was
 updated recently, together with the addition of eye-candy.
2011-03-22 14:29:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 0ce6a51b43 Merge branch 'jk/merge-rename-ux'
* jk/merge-rename-ux:
  pull: propagate --progress to merge
  merge: enable progress reporting for rename detection
  add inexact rename detection progress infrastructure
  commit: stop setting rename limit
  bump rename limit defaults (again)
  merge: improve inexact rename limit warning
2011-03-19 23:23:56 -07:00
Jeff King 3ac942d42e add inexact rename detection progress infrastructure
We might spend many seconds doing inexact rename detection
with no output.  It's nice to let the user know that
something is actually happening.

This patch adds the infrastructure, but no callers actually
turn on progress reporting.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-21 10:24:07 -08:00
Jeff King bf0ab10fa8 merge: improve inexact rename limit warning
The warning is generated deep in the diffcore code, which
means that it will come first, followed possibly by a spew
of conflicts, making it hard to see.

Instead, let's have diffcore pass back the information about
how big the rename limit would needed to have been, and then
the caller can provide a more appropriate message (and at a
more appropriate time).

No refactoring of other non-merge callers is necessary,
because nobody else was even using the warn_on_rename_limit
feature.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-21 10:21:26 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 3a4d67692b diffcore-rename: improve estimate_similarity() heuristics
The logic to quickly dismiss potential rename pairs was broken.  It
would too eagerly dismiss possible renames when all of the difference
was due to pure new data (or deleted data).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-18 22:26:45 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 0940e5f211 diffcore-rename: properly honor the difference between -M and -C
We would allow rename detection to do copy detection even when asked
purely for renames.  That confuses users, but more importantly it can
terminally confuse the recursive merge rename logic.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-18 22:26:28 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 11f944dd6b for_each_hash: allow passing a 'void *data' pointer to callback
For the find_exact_renames() function, this allows us to pass the
diff_options structure pointer to the low-level routines.  We will use
that to distinguish between the "rename" and "copy" cases.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-18 22:25:51 -08:00
Bo Yang 9ca5df9061 Add a macro DIFF_QUEUE_CLEAR.
Refactor the diff_queue_struct code, this macro help
to reset the structure.

Signed-off-by: Bo Yang <struggleyb.nku@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-07 09:34:27 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 809809bb75 diffcore-rename: reduce memory footprint by freeing blob data early
After running one round of estimate_similarity(), filespecs on either
side will have populated their cnt_data fields, and we do not need
the blob text anymore.  We used to retain the blob data to optimize
for smaller projects (not freeing the blob data here would mean that
the final output phase would not have to re-read it), but we are
efficient enough without such optimization for smaller projects anyway,
and freeing memory early will help larger projects.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-20 22:13:47 -08:00
Mike Ralphson 3ea3c215c0 Fix typos / spelling in comments
Signed-off-by: Mike Ralphson <mike@abacus.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-22 19:02:12 -07:00
Björn Steinbrink 885c716f0f Rename detection: Avoid repeated filespec population
In diffcore_rename, we assume that the blob contents in the filespec
aren't required anymore after estimate_similarity has been called and thus
we free it. But estimate_similarity might return early when the file sizes
differ too much. In that case, cnt_data is never set and the next call to
estimate_similarity will populate the filespec again, eventually rereading
the same blob over and over again.

To fix that, we first get the blob sizes and only when the blob contents
are actually required, and when cnt_data will be set, the full filespec is
populated, once.

Signed-off-by: Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-21 00:14:12 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 6e381d3aff Add file delete/create info when we overflow rename_limit
When we refuse to do rename detection due to having too many files
created or deleted, let the user know the numbers.  That way there is a
reasonable starting point for setting the diff.renamelimit option.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-28 08:58:42 -07:00
Jeff King b8960bbe7b diff: make "too many files" rename warning optional
In many cases, the warning ends up as clutter, because the
diff is being done "behind the scenes" from the user (e.g.,
when generating a commit diffstat), and whether we show
renames or not is not particularly interesting to the user.

However, in the case of a merge (which is what motivated the
warning in the first place), it is a useful hint as to why a
merge with renames might have failed.

This patch makes the warning optional based on the code
calling into diffcore. We default to not showing the
warning, but turn it on for merges.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-03 13:40:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 2a5fe25458 Merge branch 'jc/rename'
* 'jc/rename' (early part):
  Optimize rename detection for a huge diff
2008-04-09 01:09:12 -07:00
Jeff King ee542ee3fc rename: warn user when we have turned off rename detection
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-01 01:30:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 6d24ad971c Optimize rename detection for a huge diff
When there are N deleted paths and M created paths, we used to
allocate (N x M) "struct diff_score" that record how similar
each of the pair is, and picked the <src,dst> pair that gives
the best match first, and then went on to process worse matches.

This sorting is done so that when two new files in the postimage
that are similar to the same file deleted from the preimage, we
can process the more similar one first, and when processing the
second one, it can notice "Ah, the source I was planning to say
I am a copy of is already taken by somebody else" and continue
on to match itself with another file in the preimage with a
lessor match.  This matters to a change introduced between
1.5.3.X series and 1.5.4-rc, that lets the code to favor unused
matches first and then falls back to using already used
matches.

This instead allocates and keeps only a handful rename source
candidates per new files in the postimage.  I.e. it makes the
memory requirement from O(N x M) to O(M).

For each dst, we compute similarlity with all sources (i.e. the
number of similarity estimate computations is still O(N x M)),
but we keep handful best src candidates for each dst.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-13 15:44:20 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 9ae8fcb36a Fix a pathological case in git detecting proper renames
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Jeff King wrote:
>
> I think it will get worse, because you are simultaneously calculating
> all of the similarity scores bit by bit rather than doing a loop. Though
> perhaps you mean at the end you will end up with a list of src/dst pairs
> sorted by score, and you can loop over that.

Well, after thinking about this a bit, I think there's a solution that may
work well with the current thing too: instead of looping just *once* over
the list of rename pairs, loop twice - and simply refuse to do copies on
the first loop.

This trivial patch does that, and turns Kumar's test-case into a perfect
rename list.

It's not pretty, it's not smart, but it seems to work. There's something
to be said for keeping it simple and stupid.

And it should not be nearly as expensive as it may _look_. Yes, the loop
is "(i = 0; i < num_create * num_src; i++)", but the important part is
that the whole array is sorted by rename score, and we have a

	if (mx[i].score < minimum_score)
		break;

in it, so uthe loop actually would tend to terminate rather quickly.

Anyway, Kumar, the thing to take away from this is:

 - git really doesn't even *care* about the whole "rename detection"
   internally, and any commits you have done with renames are totally
   independent of the heuristics we then use to *show* the renames.

 - the rename detection really is for just two reasons: (a) keep humans
   happy, and keep the diffs small and (b) help automatic merging across
   renames. So getting renames right is certainly good, but it's more of a
   "politeness" issue than a "correctness" issue, although the merge
   portion of it does matter a lot sometimes.

 - the important thing here is that you can commit your changes and not
   worry about them being somehow "corrupted" by lack of rename detection,
   even if you commit them with a version of git that doesn't do rename
   detection the way you expected it. The rename detection is an
   "after-the-fact" thing, not something that actually gets saved in the
   repository, which is why we can change the heuristics _after_ seeing
   examples, and the examples magically correct themselves!

 - try out the two patches I've posted, and see if they work for you. They
   pass the test-suite, and the output for your example commit looks sane,
   but hey, if you have other test-cases, try them out.

Here's Kumar's pretty diffstat with both my patches:

	 Makefile                                         |    6 +++---
	 board/{cds => freescale}/common/cadmus.c         |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/common/cadmus.h         |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/common/eeprom.c         |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/common/eeprom.h         |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/common/ft_board.c       |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/common/via.c            |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/common/via.h            |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8541cds/Makefile     |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8541cds/config.mk    |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8541cds/init.S       |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8541cds/mpc8541cds.c |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8541cds/u-boot.lds   |    4 ++--
	 board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8548cds/Makefile     |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8548cds/config.mk    |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8548cds/init.S       |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8548cds/mpc8548cds.c |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8548cds/u-boot.lds   |    4 ++--
	 board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8555cds/Makefile     |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8555cds/config.mk    |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8555cds/init.S       |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8555cds/mpc8555cds.c |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8555cds/u-boot.lds   |    4 ++--
	 23 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

and here it is before:

	 Makefile                                           |    6 +-
	 board/cds/mpc8548cds/Makefile                      |   60 -----
	 board/cds/mpc8555cds/Makefile                      |   60 -----
	 board/cds/mpc8555cds/init.S                        |  255 --------------------
	 board/cds/mpc8555cds/u-boot.lds                    |  150 ------------
	 board/{cds => freescale}/common/cadmus.c           |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/common/cadmus.h           |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/common/eeprom.c           |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/common/eeprom.h           |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/common/ft_board.c         |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/common/via.c              |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/common/via.h              |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8541cds/Makefile       |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8541cds/config.mk      |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8541cds/init.S         |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8541cds/mpc8541cds.c   |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8541cds/u-boot.lds     |    4 +-
	 .../mpc8541cds => freescale/mpc8548cds}/Makefile   |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8548cds/config.mk      |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8548cds/init.S         |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8548cds/mpc8548cds.c   |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8548cds/u-boot.lds     |    4 +-
	 .../mpc8541cds => freescale/mpc8555cds}/Makefile   |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8555cds/config.mk      |    0
	 .../mpc8541cds => freescale/mpc8555cds}/init.S     |    0
	 board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8555cds/mpc8555cds.c   |    0
	 .../mpc8541cds => freescale/mpc8555cds}/u-boot.lds |    4 +-
	 27 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 534 deletions(-)

so it certainly makes the diffs prettier.

		Linus

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-30 15:49:17 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 32d75d29f9 Fix a pathological case in git detecting proper renames
Kumar Gala had a case in the u-boot archive with multiple renames of files
with identical contents, and git would turn those into multiple "copy"
operations of one of the sources, and just deleting the other sources.

This patch makes the git exact rename detection prefer to spread out the
renames over the multiple sources, rather than do multiple copies of one
source.

NOTE! The changes are a bit larger than required, because I also renamed
the variables named "one" and "two" to "target" and "source" respectively.
That makes the logic easier to follow, especially as the "one" was
illogically the target and not the soruce, for purely historical reasons
(this piece of code used to traverse over sources and targets in the wrong
order, and when we fixed that, we didn't fix the names back then. So I
fixed them now).

The important part of this change is just the trivial score calculations
for when files have identical contents:

	/* Give higher scores to sources that haven't been used already */
	score = !source->rename_used;
	score += basename_same(source, target);

and when we have multiple choices we'll now pick the choice that gets the
best rename score, rather than only looking at whether the basename
matched.

It's worth noting a few gotchas:

 - this scoring is currently only done for the "exact match" case.

   In particular, in Kumar's example, even after this patch, the inexact
   match case is still done as a copy+delete rather than as two renames:

	 delete mode 100644 board/cds/mpc8555cds/u-boot.lds
	 copy board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8541cds/u-boot.lds (97%)
	 rename board/{cds/mpc8541cds => freescale/mpc8555cds}/u-boot.lds (97%)

   because apparently the "cds/mpc8541cds/u-boot.lds" copy looked
   a bit more similar to both end results. That said, I *suspect* we just
   have the exact same issue there - the similarity analysis just gave
   identical (or at least very _close_ to identical) similarity points,
   and we do not have any logic to prefer multiple renames over a
   copy/delete there.

   That is a separate patch.

 - When you have identical contents and identical basenames, the actual
   entry that is chosen is still picked fairly "at random" for the first
   one (but the subsequent ones will prefer entries that haven't already
   been used).

   It's not actually really random, in that it actually depends on the
   relative alphabetical order of the files (which in turn will have
   impacted the order that the entries got hashed!), so it gives
   consistent results that can be explained. But I wanted to point it out
   as an issue for when anybody actually does cross-renames.

   In Kumar's case the choice is the right one (and for a single normal
   directory rename it should always be, since the relative alphabetical
   sorting of the files will be identical), and we now get:

	 rename board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8541cds/init.S (100%)
	 rename board/{cds => freescale}/mpc8548cds/init.S (100%)

   which is the "expected" answer. However, it might still be better to
   change the pedantic "exact same basename" on/off choice into a more
   graduated "how similar are the pathnames" scoring situation, in order
   to be more likely to get the exact rename choice that people *expect*
   to see, rather than other alternatives that may *technically* be
   equally good, but are surprising to a human.

It's also unclear whether we should consider "basenames are equal" or
"have already used this as a source" to be more important. This gives them
equal weight, but I suspect we might want to just multiple the "basenames
are equal" weight by two, or something, to prefer equal basenames even if
that causes a copy/delete pair. I dunno.

Anyway, what I'm just saying in a really long-winded manner is that I
think this is right as-is, but it's not the complete solution, and it may
want some further tweaking in the future.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-30 15:49:17 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 42899ac898 Do the fuzzy rename detection limits with the exact renames removed
When we do the fuzzy rename detection, we don't care about the
destinations that we already handled with the exact rename detector.
And, in fact, the code already knew that - but the rename limiter, which
used to run *before* exact renames were detected, did not.

This fixes it so that the rename detection limiter now bases its
decisions on the *remaining* rename counts, rather than the original
ones.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-10-26 23:18:06 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 81ac051d6a Fix ugly magic special case in exact rename detection
For historical reasons, the exact rename detection had populated the
filespecs for the entries it compared, and the rest of the similarity
analysis depended on that.  I hadn't even bothered to debug why that was
the case when I re-did the rename detection, I just made the new one
have the same broken behaviour, with a note about this special case.

This fixes that fixme.  The reason the exact rename detector needed to
fill in the file sizes of the files it checked was that the _inexact_
rename detector was broken, and started comparing file sizes before it
filled them in.

Fixing that allows the exact phase to do the sane thing of never even
caring (since all *it* cares about is really just the SHA1 itself, not
the size nor the contents).

It turns out that this also indirectly fixes a bug: trying to populate
all the filespecs will run out of virtual memory if there is tons and
tons of possible rename options.  The fuzzy similarity analysis does the
right thing in this regard, and free's the blob info after it has
generated the hash tables, so the special case code caused more trouble
than just some extra illogical code.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-10-26 23:18:06 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 17559a643e Do exact rename detection regardless of rename limits
Now that the exact rename detection is linear-time (with a very small
constant factor to boot), there is no longer any reason to limit it by
the number of files involved.

In some trivial testing, I created a repository with a directory that
had a hundred thousand files in it (all with different contents), and
then moved that directory to show the effects of renaming 100,000 files.

With the new code, that resulted in

	[torvalds@woody big-rename]$ time ~/git/git show -C | wc -l
	400006

	real    0m2.071s
	user    0m1.520s
	sys     0m0.576s

ie the code can correctly detect the hundred thousand renames in about 2
seconds (the number "400006" comes from four lines for each rename:

	diff --git a/really-big-dir/file-1-1-1-1-1 b/moved-big-dir/file-1-1-1-1-1
	similarity index 100%
	rename from really-big-dir/file-1-1-1-1-1
	rename to moved-big-dir/file-1-1-1-1-1

and the extra six lines is from a one-liner commit message and all the
commit information and spacing).

Most of those two seconds weren't even really the rename detection, it's
really all the other stuff needed to get there.

With the old code, this wouldn't have been practically possible.  Doing
a pairwise check of the ten billion possible pairs would have been
prohibitively expensive.  In fact, even with the rename limiter in
place, the old code would waste a lot of time just on the diff_filespec
checks, and despite not even trying to find renames, it used to look
like:

	[torvalds@woody big-rename]$ time git show -C | wc -l
	1400006

	real    0m12.337s
	user    0m12.285s
	sys     0m0.192s

ie we used to take 12 seconds for this load and not even do any rename
detection! (The number 1400006 comes from fourteen lines per file moved:
seven lines each for the delete and the create of a one-liner file, and
the same extra six lines of commit information).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-10-26 23:18:06 -07:00