[PATCH] diff: Update -B heuristics.

As Linus pointed out on the mailing list discussion, -B should
break a files that has many inserts even if it still keeps
enough of the original contents, so that the broken pieces can
later be matched with other files by -M or -C.  However, if such
a broken pair does not get picked up by -M or -C, we would want
to apply different criteria; namely, regardless of the amount of
new material in the result, the determination of "rewrite"
should be done by looking at the amount of original material
still left in the result.  If you still have the original 97
lines from a 100-line document, it does not matter if you add
your own 13 lines to make a 110-line document, or if you add 903
lines to make a 1000-line document.  It is not a rewrite but an
in-place edit.  On the other hand, if you did lose 97 lines from
the original, it does not matter if you added 27 lines to make a
30-line document or if you added 997 lines to make a 1000-line
document.  You did a complete rewrite in either case.

This patch introduces a post-processing phase that runs after
diffcore-rename matches up broken pairs diffcore-break creates.
The purpose of this post-processing is to pick up these broken
pieces and merge them back into in-place modifications.  For
this, the score parameter -B option takes is changed into a pair
of numbers, and it takes "-B99/80" format when fully spelled
out.  The first number is the minimum amount of "edit" (same
definition as what diffcore-rename uses, which is "sum of
deletion and insertion") that a modification needs to have to be
broken, and the second number is the minimum amount of "delete"
a surviving broken pair must have to avoid being merged back
together.  It can be abbreviated to "-B" to use default for
both, "-B9" or "-B9/" to use 90% for "edit" but default (80%)
for merge avoidance, or "-B/75" to use default (99%) "edit" and
75% for merge avoidance.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index 7ccc1ed7c..315eb5c26 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ static int parse_num(const char **cp_p)
 
 int diff_scoreopt_parse(const char *opt)
 {
-	int opt1, cmd;
+	int opt1, opt2, cmd;
 
 	if (*opt++ != '-')
 		return -1;
@@ -623,9 +623,21 @@ int diff_scoreopt_parse(const char *opt)
 		return -1; /* that is not a -M, -C nor -B option */
 
 	opt1 = parse_num(&opt);
+	if (cmd != 'B')
+		opt2 = 0;
+	else {
+		if (*opt == 0)
+			opt2 = 0;
+		else if (*opt != '/')
+			return -1; /* we expect -B80/99 or -B80 */
+		else {
+			opt++;
+			opt2 = parse_num(&opt);
+		}
+	}
 	if (*opt != 0)
 		return -1;
-	return opt1;
+	return opt1 | (opt2 << 16);
 }
 
 struct diff_queue_struct diff_queued_diff;
@@ -955,6 +967,8 @@ void diffcore_std(const char **paths,
 		diffcore_break(break_opt);
 	if (detect_rename)
 		diffcore_rename(detect_rename, rename_score);
+	if (0 <= break_opt)
+		diffcore_merge_broken();
 	if (pickaxe)
 		diffcore_pickaxe(pickaxe, pickaxe_opts);
 	if (orderfile)