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* Merge branch 'tk/diffcore-delta-remove-unused'Junio C Hamano2016-11-17
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | Code cleanup. * tk/diffcore-delta-remove-unused: diffcore-delta: remove unused parameter to diffcore_count_changes()
| * diffcore-delta: remove unused parameter to diffcore_count_changes()Tobias Klauser2016-11-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The delta_limit parameter to diffcore_count_changes() has been unused since commit ba23bbc8e ("diffcore-delta: make change counter to byte oriented again.", 2006-03-04). Remove the parameter and adjust all callers. Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Merge branch 'nd/ita-empty-commit'Junio C Hamano2016-10-27
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When new paths were added by "git add -N" to the index, it was enough to circumvent the check by "git commit" to refrain from making an empty commit without "--allow-empty". The same logic prevented "git status" to show such a path as "new file" in the "Changes not staged for commit" section. * nd/ita-empty-commit: commit: don't be fooled by ita entries when creating initial commit commit: fix empty commit creation when there's no changes but ita entries diff: add --ita-[in]visible-in-index diff-lib: allow ita entries treated as "not yet exist in index"
| * | diff: add --ita-[in]visible-in-indexNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy2016-10-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The option --ita-invisible-in-index exposes the "ita_invisible_in_index" diff flag to outside to allow easier experimentation with this new mode. The "plan" is to make --ita-invisible-in-index default to keep consistent behavior with 'status' and 'commit', but a bunch other commands like 'apply', 'merge', 'reset'.... need to be taken into consideration as well. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | Merge branch 'jk/no-looking-at-dotgit-outside-repo'Junio C Hamano2016-10-27
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update "git diff --no-index" codepath not to try to peek into .git/ directory that happens to be under the current directory, when we know we are operating outside any repository. * jk/no-looking-at-dotgit-outside-repo: diff: handle sha1 abbreviations outside of repository diff_aligned_abbrev: use "struct oid" diff_unique_abbrev: rename to diff_aligned_abbrev find_unique_abbrev: use 4-buffer ring test-*-cache-tree: setup git dir read info/{attributes,exclude} only when in repository
| * | | diff: handle sha1 abbreviations outside of repositoryJeff King2016-10-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When generating diffs outside a repository (e.g., with "diff --no-index"), we may write abbreviated sha1s as part of "--raw" output or the "index" lines of "--patch" output. Since we have no object database, we never find any collisions, and these sha1s get whatever static abbreviation length is configured (typically 7). However, we do blindly look in ".git/objects" to see if any objects exist, even though we know we are not in a repository. This is usually harmless because such a directory is unlikely to exist, but could be wrong in rare circumstances. Let's instead notice when we are not in a repository and behave as if the object database is empty (i.e., just use the default abbrev length). It would perhaps make sense to be conservative and show full sha1s in that case, but showing the default abbreviation is what we've always done (and is certainly less ugly). Note that this does mean that: cd /not/a/repo GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY=/some/real/objdir git diff --no-index ... used to look for collisions in /some/real/objdir but now does not. This could be considered either a bugfix (we do not look at objects if we have no repository) or a regression, but it seems unlikely that anybody would care much either way. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | diff_aligned_abbrev: use "struct oid"Jeff King2016-10-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since we're modifying this function anyway, it's a good time to update it to the more modern "struct oid". We can also drop some of the magic numbers in favor of GIT_SHA1_HEXSZ, along with some descriptive comments. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | diff_unique_abbrev: rename to diff_aligned_abbrevJeff King2016-10-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The word "align" describes how the function actually differs from find_unique_abbrev, and will make it less confusing when we add more diff-specific abbrevation functions that do not do this alignment. Since this is a globally available function, let's also move its descriptive comment to the header file, where we typically document function interfaces. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | Merge branch 'lt/abbrev-auto'Junio C Hamano2016-10-27
|\ \ \ \ | |/ / / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allow the default abbreviation length, which has historically been 7, to scale as the repository grows. The logic suggests to use 12 hexdigits for the Linux kernel, and 9 to 10 for Git itself. * lt/abbrev-auto: abbrev: auto size the default abbreviation abbrev: prepare for new world order abbrev: add FALLBACK_DEFAULT_ABBREV to prepare for auto sizing
| * | | abbrev: prepare for new world orderJunio C Hamano2016-10-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The code that sets custom abbreviation length, in response to command line argument, often does something like this: if (skip_prefix(arg, "--abbrev=", &arg)) abbrev = atoi(arg); else if (!strcmp("--abbrev", &arg)) abbrev = DEFAULT_ABBREV; /* make the value sane */ if (abbrev < 0 || 40 < abbrev) abbrev = ... some sane value ... However, it is pointless to sanity-check and tweak the value obtained from DEFAULT_ABBREV. We are going to allow it to be initially set to -1 to signal that the default abbreviation length must be auto sized upon the first request to abbreviate, based on the number of objects in the repository, and when that happens, rejecting or tweaking a negative value to a "saner" one will negatively interfere with the auto sizing. The codepaths for git rev-parse --short <object> git diff --raw --abbrev do exactly that; allow them to pass possibly negative abbrevs intact, that will come from DEFAULT_ABBREV in the future. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | Merge branch 'va/i18n'Junio C Hamano2016-10-26
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | More i18n. * va/i18n: i18n: diff: mark warnings for translation i18n: credential-cache--daemon: mark advice for translation i18n: convert mark error messages for translation i18n: apply: mark error message for translation i18n: apply: mark error messages for translation i18n: apply: mark info messages for translation i18n: apply: mark plural string for translation
| * | | | i18n: diff: mark warnings for translationVasco Almeida2016-10-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mark rename_limit_warning and degrade_cc_to_c_warning and rename_limit_warning for translation. Signed-off-by: Vasco Almeida <vascomalmeida@sapo.pt> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | | Merge branch 'jc/ws-error-highlight'Junio C Hamano2016-10-26
|\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "git diff/log --ws-error-highlight=<kind>" lacked the corresponding configuration variable to set it by default. * jc/ws-error-highlight: diff: introduce diff.wsErrorHighlight option diff.c: move ws-error-highlight parsing helpers up diff.c: refactor parse_ws_error_highlight() t4015: split out the "setup" part of ws-error-highlight test
| * | | | | diff: introduce diff.wsErrorHighlight optionJunio C Hamano2016-10-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With the preparatory steps, it has become trivial to teach the system a new diff.wsErrorHighlight configuration that gives the default value for --ws-error-highlight command line option. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | | | diff.c: move ws-error-highlight parsing helpers upJunio C Hamano2016-10-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These need to be usable from git_diff_ui_config() code to help parsing a configuration variable, so move them up. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | | | diff.c: refactor parse_ws_error_highlight()Junio C Hamano2016-10-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rename the function to parse_ws_error_highlight_opt(), because it is meant to parse a command line option, and then refactor the meat of the function into a helper function that reports the parsed result which is typically a small unsigned int (these are OR'ed bitmask after all), or a negative offset that indicates where in the input string a parse error happened. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | | | Merge branch 'jc/diff-unique-abbrev-comments'Junio C Hamano2016-10-26
|\ \ \ \ \ \ | |_|/ / / / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A bit more comments in a tricky code. * jc/diff-unique-abbrev-comments: diff_unique_abbrev(): document its assumption and limitation
| * | | | | diff_unique_abbrev(): document its assumption and limitationJunio C Hamano2016-09-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This function is used to add "..." to displayed object names in "diff --raw --abbrev[=<n>]" output. It bases its behaviour on an untold assumption that the abbreviation length requested by the caller is "reasonble", i.e. most of the objects will abbreviate within the requested length and the resulting length would never exceed it by more than a few hexdigits (otherwise the resulting columns would not align). Explain that in a comment. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | | | Merge branch 'js/regexec-buf' into maintJunio C Hamano2016-09-29
| |\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some codepaths in "git diff" used regexec(3) on a buffer that was mmap(2)ed, which may not have a terminating NUL, leading to a read beyond the end of the mapped region. This was fixed by introducing a regexec_buf() helper that takes a <ptr,len> pair with REG_STARTEND extension. * js/regexec-buf: regex: use regexec_buf() regex: add regexec_buf() that can work on a non NUL-terminated string regex: -G<pattern> feeds a non NUL-terminated string to regexec() and fails
* | \ \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'rs/qsort'Junio C Hamano2016-10-10
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We call "qsort(array, nelem, sizeof(array[0]), fn)", and most of the time third parameter is redundant. A new QSORT() macro lets us omit it. * rs/qsort: show-branch: use QSORT use QSORT, part 2 coccicheck: use --all-includes by default remove unnecessary check before QSORT use QSORT add QSORT
| * | | | | | | use QSORTRené Scharfe2016-09-29
| | |_|_|_|/ / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | | | | | Merge branch 'rs/cocci'Junio C Hamano2016-10-06
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ | |/ / / / / / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Code clean-up with help from coccinelle tool continues. * rs/cocci: coccicheck: make transformation for strbuf_addf(sb, "...") more precise use strbuf_add_unique_abbrev() for adding short hashes, part 2 use strbuf_addstr() instead of strbuf_addf() with "%s", part 2 gitignore: ignore output files of coccicheck make target
| * | | | | | use strbuf_add_unique_abbrev() for adding short hashes, part 2René Scharfe2016-09-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Call strbuf_add_unique_abbrev() to add abbreviated hashes to strbufs instead of taking detours through find_unique_abbrev() and its static buffer. This is shorter and a bit more efficient. 1eb47f167d65d1d305b9c196a1bb40eb96117cb1 already converted six cases, this patch covers three more. A semantic patch for Coccinelle is included for easier checking for new cases that might be introduced in the future. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | | | | Merge branch 'js/regexec-buf'Junio C Hamano2016-09-26
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | |_|/ / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some codepaths in "git diff" used regexec(3) on a buffer that was mmap(2)ed, which may not have a terminating NUL, leading to a read beyond the end of the mapped region. This was fixed by introducing a regexec_buf() helper that takes a <ptr,len> pair with REG_STARTEND extension. * js/regexec-buf: regex: use regexec_buf() regex: add regexec_buf() that can work on a non NUL-terminated string regex: -G<pattern> feeds a non NUL-terminated string to regexec() and fails
| * | | | | | regex: use regexec_buf()Johannes Schindelin2016-09-21
| | |_|_|_|/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The new regexec_buf() function operates on buffers with an explicitly specified length, rather than NUL-terminated strings. We need to use this function whenever the buffer we want to pass to regexec(3) may have been mmap(2)ed (and is hence not NUL-terminated). Note: the original motivation for this patch was to fix a bug where `git diff -G <regex>` would crash. This patch converts more callers, though, some of which allocated to construct NUL-terminated strings, or worse, modified buffers to temporarily insert NULs while calling regexec(3). By converting them to use regexec_buf(), the code has become much cleaner. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | | | Merge branch 'va/i18n-more'Junio C Hamano2016-09-26
|\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Even more i18n. * va/i18n-more: i18n: stash: mark messages for translation i18n: notes-merge: mark die messages for translation i18n: ident: mark hint for translation i18n: i18n: diff: mark die messages for translation i18n: connect: mark die messages for translation i18n: commit: mark message for translation
| * | | | | | i18n: i18n: diff: mark die messages for translationJean-Noël AVILA2016-09-21
| | |/ / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While marking individual messages for translation, consolidate some messages "option 'foo' requires a value" that is used for many options into one by introducing a helper function to die with the message with the option name embedded in it, and ask the translators to localize that single message instead. Signed-off-by: Vasco Almeida <vascomalmeida@sapo.pt> Signed-off-by: Jean-Noel Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | | | Merge branch 'mh/diff-indent-heuristic'Junio C Hamano2016-09-26
|\ \ \ \ \ \ | |_|_|_|_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Output from "git diff" can be made easier to read by selecting which lines are common and which lines are added/deleted intelligently when the lines before and after the changed section are the same. A command line option is added to help with the experiment to find a good heuristics. * mh/diff-indent-heuristic: blame: honor the diff heuristic options and config parse-options: add parse_opt_unknown_cb() diff: improve positioning of add/delete blocks in diffs xdl_change_compact(): introduce the concept of a change group recs_match(): take two xrecord_t pointers as arguments is_blank_line(): take a single xrecord_t as argument xdl_change_compact(): only use heuristic if group can't be matched xdl_change_compact(): fix compaction heuristic to adjust ixo
| * | | | | blame: honor the diff heuristic options and configMichael Haggerty2016-09-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Teach "git blame" and "git annotate" the --compaction-heuristic and --indent-heuristic options that are now supported by "git diff". Also teach them to honor the `diff.compactionHeuristic` and `diff.indentHeuristic` configuration options. It would be conceivable to introduce separate configuration options for "blame" and "annotate"; for example `blame.compactionHeuristic` and `blame.indentHeuristic`. But it would be confusing to users if blame output is inconsistent with diff output, so it makes more sense for them to respect the same configuration. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | | | diff: improve positioning of add/delete blocks in diffsMichael Haggerty2016-09-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some groups of added/deleted lines in diffs can be slid up or down, because lines at the edges of the group are not unique. Picking good shifts for such groups is not a matter of correctness but definitely has a big effect on aesthetics. For example, consider the following two diffs. The first is what standard Git emits: --- a/9c572b21dd090a1e5c5bb397053bf8043ffe7fb4:git-send-email.perl +++ b/6dcfa306f2b67b733a7eb2d7ded1bc9987809edb:git-send-email.perl @@ -231,6 +231,9 @@ if (!defined $initial_reply_to && $prompting) { } if (!$smtp_server) { + $smtp_server = $repo->config('sendemail.smtpserver'); +} +if (!$smtp_server) { foreach (qw( /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail )) { if (-x $_) { $smtp_server = $_; The following diff is equivalent, but is obviously preferable from an aesthetic point of view: --- a/9c572b21dd090a1e5c5bb397053bf8043ffe7fb4:git-send-email.perl +++ b/6dcfa306f2b67b733a7eb2d7ded1bc9987809edb:git-send-email.perl @@ -230,6 +230,9 @@ if (!defined $initial_reply_to && $prompting) { $initial_reply_to =~ s/(^\s+|\s+$)//g; } +if (!$smtp_server) { + $smtp_server = $repo->config('sendemail.smtpserver'); +} if (!$smtp_server) { foreach (qw( /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail )) { if (-x $_) { This patch teaches Git to pick better positions for such "diff sliders" using heuristics that take the positions of nearby blank lines and the indentation of nearby lines into account. The existing Git code basically always shifts such "sliders" as far down in the file as possible. The only exception is when the slider can be aligned with a group of changed lines in the other file, in which case Git favors depicting the change as one add+delete block rather than one add and a slightly offset delete block. This naive algorithm often yields ugly diffs. Commit d634d61ed6 improved the situation somewhat by preferring to position add/delete groups to make their last line a blank line, when that is possible. This heuristic does more good than harm, but (1) it can only help if there are blank lines in the right places, and (2) always picks the last blank line, even if there are others that might be better. The end result is that it makes perhaps 1/3 as many errors as the default Git algorithm, but that still leaves a lot of ugly diffs. This commit implements a new and much better heuristic for picking optimal "slider" positions using the following approach: First observe that each hypothetical positioning of a diff slider introduces two splits: one between the context lines preceding the group and the first added/deleted line, and the other between the last added/deleted line and the first line of context following it. It tries to find the positioning that creates the least bad splits. Splits are evaluated based only on the presence and locations of nearby blank lines, and the indentation of lines near the split. Basically, it prefers to introduce splits adjacent to blank lines, between lines that are indented less, and between lines with the same level of indentation. In more detail: 1. It measures the following characteristics of a proposed splitting position in a `struct split_measurement`: * the number of blank lines above the proposed split * whether the line directly after the split is blank * the number of blank lines following that line * the indentation of the nearest non-blank line above the split * the indentation of the line directly below the split * the indentation of the nearest non-blank line after that line 2. It combines the measured attributes using a bunch of empirically-optimized weighting factors to derive a `struct split_score` that measures the "badness" of splitting the text at that position. 3. It combines the `split_score` for the top and the bottom of the slider at each of its possible positions, and selects the position that has the best `split_score`. I determined the initial set of weighting factors by collecting a corpus of Git histories from 29 open-source software projects in various programming languages. I generated many diffs from this corpus, and determined the best positioning "by eye" for about 6600 diff sliders. I used about half of the repositories in the corpus (corresponding to about 2/3 of the sliders) as a training set, and optimized the weights against this corpus using a crude automated search of the parameter space to get the best agreement with the manually-determined values. Then I tested the resulting heuristic against the full corpus. The results are summarized in the following table, in column `indent-1`: | repository | count | Git 2.9.0 | compaction | compaction-fixed | indent-1 | indent-2 | | --------------------- | ----- | -------------- | -------------- | ---------------- | -------------- | -------------- | | afnetworking | 109 | 89 (81.7%) | 37 (33.9%) | 37 (33.9%) | 2 (1.8%) | 2 (1.8%) | | alamofire | 30 | 18 (60.0%) | 14 (46.7%) | 15 (50.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | | angular | 184 | 127 (69.0%) | 39 (21.2%) | 23 (12.5%) | 5 (2.7%) | 5 (2.7%) | | animate | 313 | 2 (0.6%) | 2 (0.6%) | 2 (0.6%) | 2 (0.6%) | 2 (0.6%) | | ant | 380 | 356 (93.7%) | 152 (40.0%) | 148 (38.9%) | 15 (3.9%) | 15 (3.9%) | * | bugzilla | 306 | 263 (85.9%) | 109 (35.6%) | 99 (32.4%) | 14 (4.6%) | 15 (4.9%) | * | corefx | 126 | 91 (72.2%) | 22 (17.5%) | 21 (16.7%) | 6 (4.8%) | 6 (4.8%) | | couchdb | 78 | 44 (56.4%) | 26 (33.3%) | 28 (35.9%) | 6 (7.7%) | 6 (7.7%) | * | cpython | 937 | 158 (16.9%) | 50 (5.3%) | 49 (5.2%) | 5 (0.5%) | 5 (0.5%) | * | discourse | 160 | 95 (59.4%) | 42 (26.2%) | 36 (22.5%) | 18 (11.2%) | 13 (8.1%) | | docker | 307 | 194 (63.2%) | 198 (64.5%) | 253 (82.4%) | 8 (2.6%) | 8 (2.6%) | * | electron | 163 | 132 (81.0%) | 38 (23.3%) | 39 (23.9%) | 6 (3.7%) | 6 (3.7%) | | git | 536 | 470 (87.7%) | 73 (13.6%) | 78 (14.6%) | 16 (3.0%) | 16 (3.0%) | * | gitflow | 127 | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | | ionic | 133 | 89 (66.9%) | 29 (21.8%) | 38 (28.6%) | 1 (0.8%) | 1 (0.8%) | | ipython | 482 | 362 (75.1%) | 167 (34.6%) | 169 (35.1%) | 11 (2.3%) | 11 (2.3%) | * | junit | 161 | 147 (91.3%) | 67 (41.6%) | 66 (41.0%) | 1 (0.6%) | 1 (0.6%) | * | lighttable | 15 | 5 (33.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | 2 (13.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | | magit | 88 | 75 (85.2%) | 11 (12.5%) | 9 (10.2%) | 1 (1.1%) | 0 (0.0%) | | neural-style | 28 | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | | nodejs | 781 | 649 (83.1%) | 118 (15.1%) | 111 (14.2%) | 4 (0.5%) | 5 (0.6%) | * | phpmyadmin | 491 | 481 (98.0%) | 75 (15.3%) | 48 (9.8%) | 2 (0.4%) | 2 (0.4%) | * | react-native | 168 | 130 (77.4%) | 79 (47.0%) | 81 (48.2%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | | rust | 171 | 128 (74.9%) | 30 (17.5%) | 27 (15.8%) | 16 (9.4%) | 14 (8.2%) | | spark | 186 | 149 (80.1%) | 52 (28.0%) | 52 (28.0%) | 2 (1.1%) | 2 (1.1%) | | tensorflow | 115 | 66 (57.4%) | 48 (41.7%) | 48 (41.7%) | 5 (4.3%) | 5 (4.3%) | | test-more | 19 | 15 (78.9%) | 2 (10.5%) | 2 (10.5%) | 1 (5.3%) | 1 (5.3%) | * | test-unit | 51 | 34 (66.7%) | 14 (27.5%) | 8 (15.7%) | 2 (3.9%) | 2 (3.9%) | * | xmonad | 23 | 22 (95.7%) | 2 (8.7%) | 2 (8.7%) | 1 (4.3%) | 1 (4.3%) | * | --------------------- | ----- | -------------- | -------------- | ---------------- | -------------- | -------------- | | totals | 6668 | 4391 (65.9%) | 1496 (22.4%) | 1491 (22.4%) | 150 (2.2%) | 144 (2.2%) | | totals (training set) | 4552 | 3195 (70.2%) | 1053 (23.1%) | 1061 (23.3%) | 86 (1.9%) | 88 (1.9%) | | totals (test set) | 2116 | 1196 (56.5%) | 443 (20.9%) | 430 (20.3%) | 64 (3.0%) | 56 (2.6%) | In this table, the numbers are the count and percentage of human-rated sliders that the corresponding algorithm got *wrong*. The columns are * "repository" - the name of the repository used. I used the diffs between successive non-merge commits on the HEAD branch of the corresponding repository. * "count" - the number of sliders that were human-rated. I chose most, but not all, sliders to rate from those among which the various algorithms gave different answers. * "Git 2.9.0" - the default algorithm used by `git diff` in Git 2.9.0. * "compaction" - the heuristic used by `git diff --compaction-heuristic` in Git 2.9.0. * "compaction-fixed" - the heuristic used by `git diff --compaction-heuristic` after the fixes from earlier in this patch series. Note that the results are not dramatically different than those for "compaction". Both produce non-ideal diffs only about 1/3 as often as the default `git diff`. * "indent-1" - the new `--indent-heuristic` algorithm, using the first set of weighting factors, determined as described above. * "indent-2" - the new `--indent-heuristic` algorithm, using the final set of weighting factors, determined as described below. * `*` - indicates that repo was part of training set used to determine the first set of weighting factors. The fact that the heuristic performed nearly as well on the test set as on the training set in column "indent-1" is a good indication that the heuristic was not over-trained. Given that fact, I ran a second round of optimization, using the entire corpus as the training set. The resulting set of weights gave the results in column "indent-2". These are the weights included in this patch. The final result gives consistently and significantly better results across the whole corpus than either `git diff` or `git diff --compaction-heuristic`. It makes only about 1/30 as many errors as the former and about 1/10 as many errors as the latter. (And a good fraction of the remaining errors are for diffs that involve weirdly-formatted code, sometimes apparently machine-generated.) The tools that were used to do this optimization and analysis, along with the human-generated data values, are recorded in a separate project [1]. This patch adds a new command-line option `--indent-heuristic`, and a new configuration setting `diff.indentHeuristic`, that activate this heuristic. This interface is only meant for testing purposes, and should be finalized before including this change in any release. [1] https://github.com/mhagger/diff-slider-tools Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | | | Merge branch 'bc/object-id'Junio C Hamano2016-09-19
|\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The "unsigned char sha1[20]" to "struct object_id" conversion continues. Notable changes in this round includes that ce->sha1, i.e. the object name recorded in the cache_entry, turns into an object_id. It had merge conflicts with a few topics in flight (Christian's "apply.c split", Dscho's "cat-file --filters" and Jeff Hostetler's "status --porcelain-v2"). Extra sets of eyes double-checking for mismerges are highly appreciated. * bc/object-id: builtin/reset: convert to use struct object_id builtin/commit-tree: convert to struct object_id builtin/am: convert to struct object_id refs: add an update_ref_oid function. sha1_name: convert get_sha1_mb to struct object_id builtin/update-index: convert file to struct object_id notes: convert init_notes to use struct object_id builtin/rm: convert to use struct object_id builtin/blame: convert file to use struct object_id Convert read_mmblob to take struct object_id. notes-merge: convert struct notes_merge_pair to struct object_id builtin/checkout: convert some static functions to struct object_id streaming: make stream_blob_to_fd take struct object_id builtin: convert textconv_object to use struct object_id builtin/cat-file: convert some static functions to struct object_id builtin/cat-file: convert struct expand_data to use struct object_id builtin/log: convert some static functions to use struct object_id builtin/blame: convert struct origin to use struct object_id builtin/apply: convert static functions to struct object_id cache: convert struct cache_entry to use struct object_id
| * | | | | | cache: convert struct cache_entry to use struct object_idbrian m. carlson2016-09-07
| | |/ / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Convert struct cache_entry to use struct object_id by applying the following semantic patch and the object_id transforms from contrib, plus the actual change to the struct: @@ struct cache_entry E1; @@ - E1.sha1 + E1.oid.hash @@ struct cache_entry *E1; @@ - E1->sha1 + E1->oid.hash Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | | | Merge branch 'sb/diff-cleanup'Junio C Hamano2016-09-15
|\ \ \ \ \ \ | | |_|_|/ / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Code cleanup. * sb/diff-cleanup: diff: remove dead code diff: omit found pointer from emit_callback diff.c: use diff_options directly
| * | | | | diff: remove dead codeStefan Beller2016-09-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When `len < 1`, len has to be 0 or negative, emit_line will then remove the first character and by then `len` would be negative. As this doesn't happen, it is safe to assume it is dead code. This continues to simplify the code, which was started in b8d9c1a66b (2009-09-03, diff.c: the builtin_diff() deals with only two-file comparison). Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | | | diff: omit found pointer from emit_callbackStefan Beller2016-09-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We keep the actual data in the diff options, which are just as accessible. Remove the pointer stored in struct emit_callback for readability. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | | | diff.c: use diff_options directlyStefan Beller2016-09-08
| |/ / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The value of `ecbdata->opt` is accessible via the short variable `o` already, so let's use that instead. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | | Merge branch 'jk/diff-submodule-diff-inline'Junio C Hamano2016-09-12
|\ \ \ \ \ | |/ / / / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The "git diff --submodule={short,log}" mechanism has been enhanced to allow "--submodule=diff" to show the patch between the submodule commits bound to the superproject. * jk/diff-submodule-diff-inline: diff: teach diff to display submodule difference with an inline diff submodule: refactor show_submodule_summary with helper function submodule: convert show_submodule_summary to use struct object_id * allow do_submodule_path to work even if submodule isn't checked out diff: prepare for additional submodule formats graph: add support for --line-prefix on all graph-aware output diff.c: remove output_prefix_length field cache: add empty_tree_oid object and helper function
| * | | | diff: teach diff to display submodule difference with an inline diffJacob Keller2016-08-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Teach git-diff and friends a new format for displaying the difference of a submodule. The new format is an inline diff of the contents of the submodule between the commit range of the update. This allows the user to see the actual code change caused by a submodule update. Add tests for the new format and option. Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | | submodule: convert show_submodule_summary to use struct object_id *Jacob Keller2016-08-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since we're going to be changing this function in a future patch, lets go ahead and convert this to use object_id now. Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | | diff: prepare for additional submodule formatsJacob Keller2016-08-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A future patch will add a new format for displaying the difference of a submodule. Make it easier by changing how we store the current selected format. Replace the DIFF_OPT flag with an enumeration, as each format will be mutually exclusive. Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | | graph: add support for --line-prefix on all graph-aware outputJacob Keller2016-08-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add an extension to git-diff and git-log (and any other graph-aware displayable output) such that "--line-prefix=<string>" will print the additional line-prefix on every line of output. To make this work, we have to fix a few bugs in the graph API that force graph_show_commit_msg to be used only when you have a valid graph. Additionally, we extend the default_diff_output_prefix handler to work even when no graph is enabled. This is somewhat of a hack on top of the graph API, but I think it should be acceptable here. This will be used by a future extension of submodule display which displays the submodule diff as the actual diff between the pre and post commit in the submodule project. Add some tests for both git-log and git-diff to ensure that the prefix is honored correctly. Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | | diff.c: remove output_prefix_length fieldJunio C Hamano2016-08-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "diff/log --stat" has a logic that determines the display columns available for the diffstat part of the output and apportions it for pathnames and diffstat graph automatically. 5e71a84a (Add output_prefix_length to diff_options, 2012-04-16) added the output_prefix_length field to diff_options structure to allow this logic to subtract the display columns used for the history graph part from the total "terminal width"; this matters when the "git log --graph -p" option is in use. The field must be set to the number of display columns needed to show the output from the output_prefix() callback, which is error prone. As there is only one user of the field, and the user has the actual value of the prefix string, let's get rid of the field and have the user count the display width itself. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | | Merge branch 'kw/patch-ids-optim'Junio C Hamano2016-08-12
|\ \ \ \ \ | |/ / / / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When "git rebase" tries to compare set of changes on the updated upstream and our own branch, it computes patch-id for all of these changes and attempts to find matches. This has been optimized by lazily computing the full patch-id (which is expensive) to be compared only for changes that touch the same set of paths. * kw/patch-ids-optim: rebase: avoid computing unnecessary patch IDs patch-ids: add flag to create the diff patch id using header only data patch-ids: replace the seen indicator with a commit pointer patch-ids: stop using a hand-rolled hashmap implementation
| * | | | patch-ids: add flag to create the diff patch id using header only dataKevin Willford2016-07-29
| |/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This will allow a diff patch id to be created using only the header data so that the contents of the file will not have to be loaded. Signed-off-by: Kevin Willford <kcwillford@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | Merge branch 'jk/diff-do-not-reuse-wtf-needs-cleaning'Junio C Hamano2016-08-03
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is an optimization used in "git diff $treeA $treeB" to borrow an already checked-out copy in the working tree when it is known to be the same as the blob being compared, expecting that open/mmap of such a file is faster than reading it from the object store, which involves inflating and applying delta. This however kicked in even when the checked-out copy needs to go through the convert-to-git conversion (including the clean filter), which defeats the whole point of the optimization. The optimization has been disabled when the conversion is necessary. * jk/diff-do-not-reuse-wtf-needs-cleaning: diff: do not reuse worktree files that need "clean" conversion
| * | | | diff: do not reuse worktree files that need "clean" conversionJeff King2016-07-22
| | |/ / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When accessing a blob for a diff, we may try to reuse file contents in the working tree, under the theory that it is faster to mmap those file contents than it would be to extract the content from the object database. When we have to filter those contents, though, that assumption does not hold. Even for our internal conversions like CRLF, we have to allocate and fill a new buffer anyway. But much worse, for external clean filters we have to exec an arbitrary script, and we have no idea how expensive it may be to run. So let's skip this optimization when conversion into git's "clean" form is required. This applies whenever the "want_file" flag is false. When it's true, the caller actually wants the smudged worktree contents, which the reused file by definition already has (in fact, this is a key optimization going the other direction, since reusing the worktree file there lets us skip smudge filters). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | | | Merge branch 'bc/cocci'Junio C Hamano2016-07-19
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conversion from unsigned char sha1[20] to struct object_id continues. * bc/cocci: diff: convert prep_temp_blob() to struct object_id merge-recursive: convert merge_recursive_generic() to object_id merge-recursive: convert leaf functions to use struct object_id merge-recursive: convert struct merge_file_info to object_id merge-recursive: convert struct stage_data to use object_id diff: rename struct diff_filespec's sha1_valid member diff: convert struct diff_filespec to struct object_id coccinelle: apply object_id Coccinelle transformations coccinelle: convert hashcpy() with null_sha1 to hashclr() contrib/coccinelle: add basic Coccinelle transforms hex: add oid_to_hex_r()
| * | | | diff: convert prep_temp_blob() to struct object_idbrian m. carlson2016-06-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | All of the callers of this function use struct object_id, so convert it to use struct object_id in its arguments and internally. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * | | | diff: rename struct diff_filespec's sha1_valid memberbrian m. carlson2016-06-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
| * | | | diff: convert struct diff_filespec to struct object_idbrian m. carlson2016-06-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>