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
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
When diffing files and directories, don't follow symbolic links, instead
compare where the links point to.
Reviewed by: bapt
Sponsored by: Klara Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34203
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
Most of them become static. There will be more such functions added in
upcoming commits, so they would be inconsistent with existing code.
Improve the existing code instead of reinforcing the unwanted pattern.
There will be more boolean flags added in upcoming commits and they
would have to be stored in ints in order to be consistent with existing
code. Change the existing code to use the bool type.
When diff hits certain access errors, function diffreg() shows the error
message, and then returns to the calling function, which calls
print_status() with the return value.
However, in these cases, the return value isn't changed from the initial
default value of D_SAME.
Normally, print_status() with a value of D_SAME does nothing, so this
works out ok, however, if the "-s" flag is set, a message is displayed
showing identicality:
case D_SAME:
if (sflag)
printf("Files %s%s and %s%s are identical\n", path1, entry, path2, entry);
break;
This then produces such results as:
% diff -s /COPYRIGHT /var/run/rpcbind.sock
diff: /var/run/rpcbind.sock: Operation not supported
Files /COPYRIGHT and /var/run/rpcbind.sock are identical
% diff -s /COPYRIGHT /etc/master.passwd
diff: /etc/master.passwd: Permission denied
Files /COPYRIGHT and /etc/master.passwd are identical
Create a D_ERROR status which is returned in such cases, and
print_status() then deals with that status seperately from D_SAME
PR: 252614
MFC after: 1 week
This matches GNU diff(1) behavior and, more importantly, eliminates any
source of confusion if multiple formatting options are specified.
Note that the committed diff differs slightly from the submitted: I've
modified it so that we initialize diff_format to something that isn't an
accepted format option so that we can also reject --normal -c and -c
--normal, which would've otherwise been accepted because the default was
--normal. After option parsing we default it to D_NORMAL if it's still
unset.
PR: 243975
Submitted by: fehmi noyan isi
MFC after: 1 week
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
