This adds support for two new diff algorithms, Myers diff and Patience
diff.
These algorithms perform a different form of search compared to the
classic Stone algorithm and support escapes when worst case scenarios
are encountered.
Add the -A flag to allow selection of the algorithm, but default to
using the new Myers diff implementation.
The libdiff implementation currently only supports a subset of input and
output options supported by diff. When these options are used, but the
algorithm is not selected, automatically fallback to the classic Stone
algorithm until support for these modes can be added.
Based on work originally done by thj@ with contributions from kevans@.
Sponsored by: Klara, Inc.
Reviewed by: thj
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D44302
* Overhaul column width and padding calculation.
* Rewrite print_space() so it is now a) correct and b) understandable.
* Rewrite tab expansion in fetch() for the same reason.
This brings us in line with GNU diff for all cases I could think of.
Sponsored by: Klara, Inc.
Reviewed by: imp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D44014
On the manpage of diff(1), "when" is mistyped to "wen".
Event: Advanced UNIX Programming Course (Fall'23) at NTHU.
Signed-off-by: Pin-Yi Kuo <kuokuoyiyi@gapp.nthu.edu.tw>
Reviewed by: imp, zlei
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/943
Remove ancient SCCS tags from the tree, automated scripting, with two
minor fixup to keep things compiling. All the common forms in the tree
were removed with a perl script.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Add support for --help and --version to be compatible with gnu diff.
gnu diff --help writes to stdout, do the same to be compatible
Reviewed by: bapt, pstef, debrup, Pau Amma
Sponsored by: Klara Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34508
When searching back for function definitions, consider lines starting
with '+' and '-', this allows us to pick up Objective-C methods as well
as C style function definitions.
Reviewed by: bapt
Sponsored by: Klara Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34202
With unified and context diffs, show the last line that matches the
provided pattern before the context.
Reviewed by: bapt
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D31714
Adds a --color flag to diff(1) that supports the same options as GNU's
diff(1). The colors are customizable with the env var DIFFCOLORS in
a format similar to grep(1)'s GREPCOLORS. An example would be 04;36:41
for additions to be underlined light blue, and deletions have a red
background.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30545
--tabsize was previously listed as optional_argument, but didn't account for
the optionality of it in the argument handling. This is irrelevant -- the
manpage doesn't indicate that the argument is optional, and indeed there's
no clear interpretation of omitting the argument because there's no other
side effect of --tabsize.
The "malformed" argument part of the header on this message is simply
referring to usage like this:
% diff --tabsize 4 A B
With an optional_argument, the argument must be attached to the parameter
directly (e.g. --tabsize=4), so the argument is effectively NULL with the
above invocation as if no argument had been passed.
PR: 243974
Submitted by: fehmi noyan isi <fnoyanisi yahoo com> (diff.c portion)
MFC after: 3 days
- Long options must be stylized with the Fl macro as well.
Reviewed by: bapt
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23642
As noted by cem in r338035, coccinelle invokes diff(1) with the -B flag.
This was not previously implemented here, so one was forced to create a link
for GNU diff to /usr/local/bin/diff
Implement the -B flag and add some primitive tests for it. It is implemented
in the same fashion that -I is implemented; each chunk's lines are scanned,
and if a non-blank line is encountered then the chunk will be output.
Otherwise, it's skipped.
MFC after: 2 weeks
etcupdate(8) requires that option, while GNU diff supports many more variation
of that options, their behaviour beside the simple verion implemented here are
quite inconsistent as such I do not plan to implement those.
The only special keyword supported by this implementation are: %< and %>
%= is not implemented as the documentation of GNU diff says: common lines, but
it actually when tested print the changes from the first file
Some of the modifications from the previous summer of code has been integrated
Modification for compatibility with GNU diff output has been added
Main difference with OpenBSD:
Implement multiple GNU diff options:
* --ignore-file-name-case
* --no-ignore-file-name-case
* --normal
* --tabsize
* --strip-trailing-cr
Make diff -p compatible with GNU diff
Implement diff -l
Make diff -r compatible with GNU diff
Capsicumize diffing 2 regular files
Add a simple test suite
Approved by: AsiaBSDcon devsummit
Obtained from: OpenBSD, GSoC
Relnotes: yes
