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* copy vs rename detection: avoid unnecessary O(n*m) loopsLinus Torvalds2007-10-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The core rename detection had some rather stupid code to check if a pathname was used by a later modification or rename, which basically walked the whole pathname space for all renames for each rename, in order to tell whether it was a pure rename (no remaining users) or should be considered a copy (other users of the source file remaining). That's really silly, since we can just keep a count of users around, and replace all those complex and expensive loops with just testing that simple counter (but this all depends on the previous commit that shared the diff_filespec data structure by using a separate reference count). Note that the reference count is not the same as the rename count: they behave otherwise rather similarly, but the reference count is tied to the allocation (and decremented at de-allocation, so that when it turns zero we can get rid of the memory), while the rename count is tied to the renames and is decremented when we find a rename (so that when it turns zero we know that it was a rename, not a copy). Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Ref-count the filespecs used by diffcoreLinus Torvalds2007-10-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rather than copy the filespecs when introducing new versions of them (for rename or copy detection), use a refcount and increment the count when reusing the diff_filespec. This avoids unnecessary allocations, but the real reason behind this is a future enhancement: we will want to track shared data across the copy/rename detection. In order to efficiently notice when a filespec is used by a rename, the rename machinery wants to keep track of a rename usage count which is shared across all different users of the filespec. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* rename diff_free_filespec_data_large() to diff_free_filespec_blob()Junio C Hamano2007-10-02
| | | | Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* diffcore-rename: cache file deltasJeff King2007-10-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We find rename candidates by computing a fingerprint hash of each file, and then comparing those fingerprints. There are inherently O(n^2) comparisons, so it pays in CPU time to hoist the (rather expensive) computation of the fingerprint out of that loop (or to cache it once we have computed it once). Previously, we didn't keep the filespec information around because then we had the potential to consume a great deal of memory. However, instead of keeping all of the filespec data, we can instead just keep the fingerprint. This patch implements and uses diff_free_filespec_data_large to accomplish that goal. We also have to change estimate_similarity not to needlessly repopulate the filespec data when we already have the hash. Practical tests showed 4.5x speedup for a 10% memory usage increase. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Fix configuration syntax to specify customized hunk header patterns.Junio C Hamano2007-07-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This updates the hunk header customization syntax. The special case 'funcname' attribute is gone. You assign the name of the type of contents to path's "diff" attribute as a string value in .gitattributes like this: *.java diff=java *.perl diff=perl *.doc diff=doc If you supply "diff.<name>.funcname" variable via the configuration mechanism (e.g. in $HOME/.gitconfig), the value is used as the regexp set to find the line to use for the hunk header (the variable is called "funcname" because such a line typically is the one that has the name of the function in programming language source text). If there is no such configuration, built-in default is used, if any. Currently there are two default patterns: default and java. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Per-path attribute based hunk header selection.Junio C Hamano2007-07-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This makes"diff -p" hunk headers customizable via gitattributes mechanism. It is based on Johannes's earlier patch that allowed to define a single regexp to be used for everything. The mechanism to arrive at the regexp that is used to define hunk header is the same as other use of gitattributes. You assign an attribute, funcname (because "diff -p" typically uses the name of the function the patch is about as the hunk header), a simple string value. This can be one of the names of built-in pattern (currently, "java" is defined) or a custom pattern name, to be looked up from the configuration file. (in .gitattributes) *.java funcname=java *.perl funcname=perl (in .git/config) [funcname] java = ... # ugly and complicated regexp to override the built-in one. perl = ... # another ugly and complicated regexp to define a new one. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Introduce diff_filespec_is_binary()Junio C Hamano2007-07-06
| | | | | | | | | | | This replaces an explicit initialization of filespec->is_binary field used for rename/break followed by direct access to that field with a wrapper function that lazily iniaitlizes and accesses the field. We would add more attribute accesses for the use of diff routines, and it would be better to make this abstraction earlier. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* diffcore_filespec: add is_binaryJunio C Hamano2007-06-30
| | | | | | | | | diffcore-break and diffcore-rename would want to behave slightly differently depending on the binary-ness of the data, so add one bit to the filespec, as the structure is now passed down to diffcore_count_changes() function. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* diffcore_count_changes: pass diffcore_filespecJunio C Hamano2007-06-30
| | | | | | | | | | We may want to use richer information on the data we are dealing with in this function, so instead of passing a buffer address and length, just pass the diffcore_filespec structure. Existing callers always call this function with parameters taken from a filespec anyway, so there is no functionality changes. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Make macros to prevent double-inclusion in headers consistent.Junio C Hamano2007-04-29
| | | | Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* diff-index --cached --raw: show tree entry on the LHS for unmerged entries.Junio C Hamano2007-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This updates the way diffcore represents an unmerged pair somewhat. It used to be that entries with mode=0 on both sides were used to represent an unmerged pair, but now it has an explicit flag. This is to allow diff-index --cached to report the entry from the tree when the path is unmerged in the index. This is used in updating "git reset <tree> -- <path>" to restore absense of the path in the index from the tree. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* diff.c: do not use pathname comparison to tell renamesJunio C Hamano2006-08-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | The final output from diff used to compare pathnames between preimage and postimage to tell if the filepair is a rename/copy. By explicitly marking the filepair created by diffcore_rename(), the output routine, resolve_rename_copy(), does not have to do so anymore. This helps feeding a filepair that has different pathnames in one and two elements to the diff machinery (most notably, comparing two blobs). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* diffcore-rename: somewhat optimized.Junio C Hamano2006-03-12
| | | | | | | | | This changes diffcore-rename to reuse statistics information gathered during similarity estimation, and updates the hashtable implementation used to keep track of the statistics to be denser. This seems to give better performance. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* diffcore-break: similarity estimator fix.Junio C Hamano2006-03-04
| | | | | | | | This is a companion patch to the previous fix to diffcore-rename. The merging-back process should use a logic similar to what is used there. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* diffcore-rename: split out the delta counting code.Junio C Hamano2006-02-28
| | | | | | | This is to rework diffcore break/rename/copy detection code so that it does not affected when deltifier code gets improved. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* diffcore-break/diffcore-rename: integer overflow.Junio C Hamano2006-01-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | While reviewing the end user tutorial rewrite by J. Bruce Fields, I noticed that "git-diff-tree -B -C" did not correctly break the total rewrite of Documentation/tutorial.txt. It turns out that we had integer overflow during the break score computations. Cop out by using floating point. This is not a kernel. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Diff: -l<num> to limit rename/copy detection.Junio C Hamano2005-09-24
| | | | | | | | When many paths are modified, rename detection takes a lot of time. The new option -l<num> can be used to disable rename detection when more than <num> paths are possibly created as renames. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Revert "[PATCH] plug memory leak in diff.c::diff_free_filepair()"Junio C Hamano2005-09-14
| | | | This reverts 068eac91ce04b9aca163acb1927c3878c45d1a07 commit.
* [PATCH] plug memory leak in diff.c::diff_free_filepair()Yasushi SHOJI2005-08-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When I run git-diff-tree on big change, it seems the command eats so much memory. so I just put git under valgrind to see what's going on. diff_free_filespec_data() doesn't free diff_filespec itself. [jc: I ended up doing things slightly differently from Yasushi's patch. The original idea was to use free_filespec_data() only to free the data portion and keep useing the filespec itself, but no existing code seems to do things that way, so I just yanked that part out.] Signed-off-by: Yasushi SHOJI <yashi@atmark-techno.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* [PATCH] Re-Fix SIGSEGV on unmerged files in git-diff-files -pJunio C Hamano2005-06-12
| | | | | | | | | | When an unmerged path was fed via diff_unmerged() into diffcore, it eventually called run_diff() with "one" and "two" parameters with NULL, but run_diff() was not written carefully enough to notice this situation. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Fix SIGSEGV on unmerged files in git-diff-files -pLinus Torvalds2005-06-08
| | | | NULL is not considered a VALID pathspec.
* [PATCH] diffcore-break.c: various fixes.Junio C Hamano2005-06-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes three bugs in the -B heuristics. - Although it was advertised that the initial break criteria used was the same as what diffcore-rename uses, it was using something different. Instead of using smaller of src and dst size to compare with "edit" size, (insertion and deletion), it was using larger of src and dst, unlike the rename/copy detection logic. This caused the parameter to -B to mean something different from the one to -M and -C. To compensate for this change, the default break score is also changed to match that of the default for rename/copy. - The code would have crashed with division by zero when trying to break an originally empty file. - Contrary to what the comment said, the algorithm was breaking small files, only to later merge them together. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] diff: Update -B heuristics.Junio C Hamano2005-06-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] diff: Fix docs and add -O to diff-helper.Junio C Hamano2005-06-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch updates diff documentation and usage strings: - clarify the semantics of -R. It is not "output in reverse"; rather, it is "I will feed diff backwards". Semantically they are different when -C is involved. - describe -O in usage strings of diff-* brothers. It was implemented, documented but not described in usage text. Also it adds -O to diff-helper. Like -S (and unlike -M/-C/-B), this option can work on sanitized diff-raw output produced by the diff-* brothers. While we are at it, the call it makes to diffcore is cleaned up to use the diffcore_std() like everybody else, and the declaration for the low level diffcore routines are moved from diff.h (public) to diffcore.h (private between diff.c and diffcore backends). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Tweak count-delta interfaceJunio C Hamano2005-06-03
| | | | | | | | | | | Make it return copied source and insertion separately, so that later implementation of heuristics can use them more flexibly. This does not change the heuristics implemented in diffcore-rename nor diffcore-break in any way. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] diff: mode bits fixesJunio C Hamano2005-06-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The core GIT repository has trees that record regular file mode in 0664 instead of normalized 0644 pattern. Comparing such a tree with another tree that records the same file in 0644 pattern without content changes with git-diff-tree causes it to feed otherwise unmodified pairs to the diff_change() routine, which triggers a sanity check routine and barfs. This patch fixes the problem, along with the fix to another caller that uses unnormalized mode bits to call diff_change() routine in a similar way. Without this patch, you will see "fatal error" from diff-tree when you run git-deltafy-script on the core GIT repository itself. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Add -B flag to diff-* brothers.Junio C Hamano2005-05-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A new diffcore transformation, diffcore-break.c, is introduced. When the -B flag is given, a patch that represents a complete rewrite is broken into a deletion followed by a creation. This makes it easier to review such a complete rewrite patch. The -B flag takes the same syntax as the -M and -C flags to specify the minimum amount of non-source material the resulting file needs to have to be considered a complete rewrite, and defaults to 99% if not specified. As the new test t4008-diff-break-rewrite.sh demonstrates, if a file is a complete rewrite, it is broken into a delete/create pair, which can further be subjected to the usual rename detection if -M or -C is used. For example, if file0 gets completely rewritten to make it as if it were rather based on file1 which itself disappeared, the following happens: The original change looks like this: file0 --> file0' (quite different from file0) file1 --> /dev/null After diffcore-break runs, it would become this: file0 --> /dev/null /dev/null --> file0' file1 --> /dev/null Then diffcore-rename matches them up: file1 --> file0' The internal score values are finer grained now. Earlier maximum of 10000 has been raised to 60000; there is no user visible changes but there is no reason to waste available bits. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] diff: code clean-up and removal of rename hack.Junio C Hamano2005-05-30
| | | | | | | | | | | A new macro, DIFF_PAIR_RENAME(), is introduced to distinguish a filepair that is a rename/copy (the definition of which is src and dst are different paths, of course). This removes the hack used in the record_rename_pair() to always put a non-zero value in the score field. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Optimize diff-tree -[CM] --stdinJunio C Hamano2005-05-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This attempts to optimize "diff-tree -[CM] --stdin", which compares successible tree pairs. This optimization does not make much sense for other commands in the diff-* brothers. When reading from --stdin and using rename/copy detection, the patch makes diff-tree to read the current index file first. This is done to reuse the optimization used by diff-cache in the non-cached case. Similarity estimator can avoid expanding a blob if the index says what is in the work tree has an exact copy of that blob already expanded. Another optimization the patch makes is to check only file sizes first to terminate similarity estimation early. In order for this to work, it needs a way to tell the size of the blob without expanding it. Since an obvious way of doing it, which is to keep all the blobs previously used in the memory, is too costly, it does so by keeping the filesize for each object it has already seen in memory. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Fix the way diffcore-rename records unremoved source.Junio C Hamano2005-05-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Earier version of diffcore-rename used to keep unmodified filepair in its output so that the last stage of the processing that tells renames from copies can make all of rename/copy to copies. However this had a bad interaction with other diffcore filters that wanted to run after diffcore-rename, in that such unmodified filepair must be retained for proper distinction between renames and copies to happen. This patch fixes the problem by changing the way diffcore-rename records the information needed to distinguish "all are copies" case and "the last one is a rename" case. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Remove a function not used anymore.Junio C Hamano2005-05-29
| | | | | | | | | | Earlier rename/copy detection left unmodified filepair in the output and forced downstream to keep them even when they are filtering, and the diff_needs_to_stay() function was used for the logic. It is not used anymore, so remove it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Introduce diff_free_filepair() funcion.Junio C Hamano2005-05-29
| | | | | | | | This introduces a new function to free a common data structure, and plugs some leaks. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Diff updates to express type changesJunio C Hamano2005-05-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With the introduction of type 'T' in the diff-raw output, and the "apply-patch" program Linus has been quietly working on without much advertisement, it started to make sense to emit usable information in the "diff --git" patch output format as well. Earlier built-in diff driver punted and did not say anything about a symbolic link changing into a file or vice versa, but this version represents it as a pair of deletion and creation. It also fixes a minor problem dealing with old archive created with ancient git. The earlier code was reporting file mode change between 100664 and 100644 (we shouldn't). The linux-2.6 git tree has a good example that exposes this problem. A good test case is commit ce1dc02f76432a46db149241e015a4f782974623. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Fix type-change handling when assigning the status code to filepairs.Junio C Hamano2005-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The interim single-liner '?' fix resulted delete entries that should not have emitted coming out in the output as an unintended side effect; I caught this with the "rename" test in the test suite. This patch instead fixes the code that assigns the status code to each filepair. I verified this does not break the testcase in udev.git tree Kay Sievers gave us, by running git-diff-tree on that tree which showed 21 file to symlink changes. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Redo rename/copy detection logic.Junio C Hamano2005-05-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Earlier implementation had a major screw-up in the memory management area. Rename/copy logic sometimes borrowed a pointer to a structure without any provision for downstream to determine which pointer is shared and which is not. This resulted in the later clean-up code to sometimes double free such structure, resulting in a segfault. This made -M and -C useless. Another problem the earlier implementation had was that it reordered the patches, and forced the logic to differentiate renames and copies to depend on that particular order. This problem was fixed by teaching rename/copy detection logic not to do any reordering, and rename-copy differentiator not to depend on the order of the patches. The diffs will leave rename/copy detector in the same destination path order as the patch that was fed into it. Some test vectors have been reordered to accommodate this change. It also adds a sanity check logic to the human-readable diff-raw output to detect paths with embedded TAB and LF characters, which cannot be expressed with that format. This idea came up during a discussion with Chris Wedgwood. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Fix diff-pruning logic which was running prune too early.Junio C Hamano2005-05-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | For later stages to reorder patches, pruning logic and rename detection logic should not decide which delete to discard (because another entry said it will take over the file as a rename) until the very end. Also fix some tests that were assuming the earlier "last one is rename or keep everything else is copy" semantics of diff-raw format, which no longer is true. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] diff-raw format update take #2.Junio C Hamano2005-05-23
| | | | | | | | | | | This changes the diff-raw format again, following the mailing list discussion. The new format explicitly expresses which one is a rename and which one is a copy. The documentation and tests are updated to match this change. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Rename/copy detection fix.Junio C Hamano2005-05-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The rename/copy detection logic in earlier round was only good enough to show patch output and discussion on the mailing list about the diff-raw format updates revealed many problems with it. This patch fixes all the ones known to me, without making things I want to do later impossible, mostly related to patch reordering. (1) Earlier rename/copy detector determined which one is rename and which one is copy too early, which made it impossible to later introduce diffcore transformers to reorder patches. This patch fixes it by moving that logic to the very end of the processing. (2) Earlier output routine diff_flush() was pruning all the "no-change" entries indiscriminatingly. This was done due to my false assumption that one of the requirements in the diff-raw output was not to show such an entry (which resulted in my incorrect comment about "diff-helper never being able to be equivalent to built-in diff driver"). My special thanks go to Linus for correcting me about this. When we produce diff-raw output, for the downstream to be able to tell renames from copies, sometimes it _is_ necessary to output "no-change" entries, and this patch adds diffcore_prune() function for doing it. (3) Earlier diff_filepair structure was trying to be not too specific about rename/copy operations, but the purpose of the structure was to record one or two paths, which _was_ indeed about rename/copy. This patch discards xfrm_msg field which was trying to be generic for this wrong reason, and introduces a couple of fields (rename_score and rename_rank) that are explicitly specific to rename/copy logic. One thing to note is that the information in a single diff_filepair structure _still_ does not distinguish renames from copies, and it is deliberately so. This is to allow patches to be reordered in later stages. (4) This patch also adds some tests about diff-raw format output and makes sure that necessary "no-change" entries appear on the output. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Diffcore updates.Junio C Hamano2005-05-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This moves the path selection logic from individual programs to a new diffcore transformer (diff-tree still needs to have its own for performance reasons). Also the header printing code in diff-tree was tweaked not to produce anything when pickaxe is in effect and there is nothing interesting to report. An interesting example is the following in the GIT archive itself: $ git-whatchanged -p -C -S'or something in a real script' Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] The diff-raw format updates.Junio C Hamano2005-05-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update the diff-raw format as Linus and I discussed, except that it does not use sequence of underscore '_' letters to express nonexistence. All '0' mode is used for that purpose instead. The new diff-raw format can express rename/copy, and the earlier restriction that -M and -C _must_ be used with the patch format output is no longer necessary. The patch makes -M and -C flags independent of -p flag, so you need to say git-whatchanged -M -p to get the diff/patch format. Updated are both documentations and tests. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Prepare diffcore interface for diff-tree header supression.Junio C Hamano2005-05-21
| | | | | | | | This does not actually supress the extra headers when pickaxe is used, but prepares enough support for diff-tree to implement it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Introducing software archaeologist's tool "pickaxe".Junio C Hamano2005-05-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This steals the "pickaxe" feature from JIT and make it available to the bare Plumbing layer. From the command line, the user gives a string he is intersted in. Using the diff-core infrastructure previously introduced, it filters the differences to limit the output only to the diffs between <src> and <dst> where the string appears only in one but not in the other. For example: $ ./git-rev-list HEAD | ./git-diff-tree -Sdiff-tree-helper --stdin -M would show the diffs that touch the string "diff-tree-helper". In real software-archaeologist application, you would typically look for a few to several lines of code and see where that code came from. The "pickaxe" module runs after "rename/copy detection" module, so it even crosses the file rename boundary, as the above example demonstrates. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Diff overhaul, adding half of copy detection.Junio C Hamano2005-05-21
This introduces the diff-core, the layer between the diff-tree family and the external diff interface engine. The calls to the interface diff-tree family uses (diff_change and diff_addremove) have not changed and will not change. The purpose of the diff-core layer is to provide an infrastructure to transform the set of differences sent from the applications, before sending them to the external diff interface. The recently introduced rename detection code has been rewritten to use the diff-core facility. When applications send in separate creates and deletes, matching ones are transformed into a single rename-and-edit diff, and sent out to the external diff interface as such. This patch also enhances the rename detection code further to be able to detect copies. Currently this happens only as long as copy sources appear as part of the modified files, but there already is enough provision for callers to report unmodified files to diff-core, so that they can be also used as copy source candidates. Extending the callers this way will be done in a separate patch. Please see and marvel at how well this works by trying out the newly added t/t4003-diff-rename-1.sh test script. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>