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2024-03-15diff: add diff.srcPrefix and diff.dstPrefix configuration variablesPeter Hutterer1-2/+3
Allow the default prefixes "a/" and "b/" to be tweaked by the diff.srcPrefix and diff.dstPrefix configuration variables. Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-12-26doc: enforce placeholders in documentationJean-Noël Avila1-1/+1
Any string that is not meant to be used verbatim in the documentation should be marked as a placeholder. Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-10-30Merge branch 'sn/typo-grammo-phraso-fixes'Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
Many typos, ungrammatical sentences and wrong phrasing have been fixed. * sn/typo-grammo-phraso-fixes: t/README: fix multi-prerequisite example doc/gitk: s/sticked/stuck/ git-jump: admit to passing merge mode args to ls-files doc/diff-options: improve wording of the log.diffMerges mention doc: fix some typos, grammar and wording issues
2023-10-23Merge branch 'en/docfixes'Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Documentation typo and grammo fixes. * en/docfixes: (25 commits) documentation: add missing parenthesis documentation: add missing quotes documentation: add missing fullstops documentation: add some commas where they are helpful documentation: fix whitespace issues documentation: fix capitalization documentation: fix punctuation documentation: use clearer prepositions documentation: add missing hyphens documentation: remove unnecessary hyphens documentation: add missing article documentation: fix choice of article documentation: whitespace is already generally plural documentation: fix singular vs. plural documentation: fix verb vs. noun documentation: fix adjective vs. noun documentation: fix verb tense documentation: employ consistent verb tense for a list documentation: fix subject/verb agreement documentation: remove extraneous words ...
2023-10-09diff-merges: introduce '--dd' optionSergey Organov1-0/+5
This option provides a shortcut to request diff with respect to first parent for any kind of commit, universally. It's implemented as pure synonym for "--diff-merges=first-parent --patch". Gives user quick and universal way to see what changes, exactly, were brought to a branch by merges as well as by regular commits. Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-10-09diff-merges: improve --diff-merges documentationSergey Organov1-46/+54
* Put descriptions of convenience shortcuts first, so they are the first things reader observes rather than lengthy detailed stuff. * Get rid of very long line containing all the --diff-merges formats by replacing them with <format>, and putting each supported format on its own line. Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-10-09documentation: wording improvementsElijah Newren1-1/+1
Diff best viewed with --color-diff. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-10-05doc/diff-options: improve wording of the log.diffMerges mentionŠtěpán Němec1-3/+3
Fix the grammar ("which default value is") and reword to match other similar descriptions (say "configuration variable" instead of "parameter", link to git-config(1)). Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@smrk.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-10-05doc: fix some typos, grammar and wording issuesŠtěpán Němec1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@smrk.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-09-18diff --stat: add config option to limit filename widthDragan Simic1-8/+9
Add new configuration option diff.statNameWidth=<width> that is equivalent to the command-line option --stat-name-width=<width>, but it is ignored by format-patch. This follows the logic established by the already existing configuration option diff.statGraphWidth=<width>. Limiting the widths of names and graphs in the --stat output makes sense for interactive work on wide terminals with many columns, hence the support for these configuration options. They don't affect format-patch because it already adheres to the traditional 80-column standard. Update the documentation and add more tests to cover new configuration option diff.statNameWidth=<width>. While there, perform a few minor code and whitespace cleanups here and there, as spotted. Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-09-14Merge branch 'so/diff-doc-for-patch-update'Junio C Hamano1-7/+1
References from description of the `--patch` option in various manual pages have been simplified and improved. * so/diff-doc-for-patch-update: doc/diff-options: fix link to generating patch section
2023-09-06doc/diff-options: fix link to generating patch sectionSergey Organov1-7/+1
When formatted as man-page, the section title is rendered "GENERATING PATCH TEXT WITH -P" whereas reference still reads "Generating patch text with -p", that is inconsistent and makes searching harder than it needs to be. Fix this by getting rid of custom reference text. Also, documentation for every command that describes `-p` option by including the "diff-options.txt" file does include the "diff-generate-patch.txt" file as well (as it should), so the internal link is in fact useful for any of them. Fix this by getting rid of conditionals around the reference. Fixes: ebdc46c242 (docs: link generating patch sections) Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-06-13Merge branch 'jc/diff-s-with-other-options'Junio C Hamano1-2/+5
The "-s" (silent, squelch) option of the "diff" family of commands did not interact with other options that specify the output format well. This has been cleaned up so that it will clear all the formatting options given before. * jc/diff-s-with-other-options: diff: fix interaction between the "-s" option and other options
2023-05-05diff: fix interaction between the "-s" option and other optionsJunio C Hamano1-2/+5
Sergey Organov noticed and reported "--patch --no-patch --raw" behaves differently from just "--raw". It turns out that there are a few interesting bugs in the implementation and documentation. * First, the documentation for "--no-patch" was unclear that it could be read to mean "--no-patch" countermands an earlier "--patch" but not other things. The intention of "--no-patch" ever since it was introduced at d09cd15d (diff: allow --no-patch as synonym for -s, 2013-07-16) was to serve as a synonym for "-s", so "--raw --patch --no-patch" should have produced no output, but it can be (mis)read to allow showing only "--raw" output. * Then the interaction between "-s" and other format options were poorly implemented. Modern versions of Git uses one bit each to represent formatting options like "--patch", "--stat" in a single output_format word, but for historical reasons, "-s" also is represented as another bit in the same word. This allows two interesting bugs to happen, and we have both X-<. (1) After setting a format bit, then setting NO_OUTPUT with "-s", the code to process another "--<format>" option drops the NO_OUTPUT bit to allow output to be shown again. However, the code to handle "-s" only set NO_OUTPUT without unsetting format bits set earlier, so the earlier format bit got revealed upon seeing the second "--<format>" option. This is the problem Sergey observed. (2) After setting NO_OUTPUT with "-s", code to process "--<format>" option can forget to unset NO_OUTPUT, leaving the command still silent. It is tempting to change the meaning of "--no-patch" to mean "disable only the patch format output" and reimplement "-s" as "not showing anything", but it would be an end-user visible change in behavior. Let's fix the interactions of these bits to first make "-s" work as intended. The fix is conceptually very simple. * Whenever we set DIFF_FORMAT_FOO because we saw the "--foo" option (e.g. DIFF_FORMAT_RAW is set when the "--raw" option is given), we make sure we drop DIFF_FORMAT_NO_OUTPUT. We forgot to do so in some of the options and caused (2) above. * When processing "-s" option, we should not just set DIFF_FORMAT_NO_OUTPUT bit, but clear other DIFF_FORMAT_* bits. We didn't do so and retained format bits set by options previously seen, causing (1) above. It is even more tempting to lose NO_OUTPUT bit and instead take output_format word being 0 as its replacement, but that would break the mechanism "git show" uses to default to "--patch" output, where the distinction between telling the command to be silent with "-s" and having no output format specified on the command line matters, and an explicit output format given on the command line should not be "combined" with the default "--patch" format. So, while we cannot lose the NO_OUTPUT bit, as a follow-up work, we may want to replace it with OPTION_GIVEN bit, and * make "--patch", "--raw", etc. set DIFF_FORMAT_$format bit and DIFF_FORMAT_OPTION_GIVEN bit on for each format. "--no-raw", etc. will set off DIFF_FORMAT_$format bit but still record the fact that we saw an option from the command line by setting DIFF_FORMAT_OPTION_GIVEN bit. * make "-s" (and its synonym "--no-patch") clear all other bits and set only the DIFF_FORMAT_OPTION_GIVEN bit on. which I suspect would make the code much cleaner without breaking any end-user expectations. Once that is in place, transitioning "--no-patch" to mean the counterpart of "--patch", just like "--no-raw" only defeats an earlier "--raw", would be quite simple at the code level. The social cost of migrating the end-user expectations might be too great for it to be worth, but at least the "GIVEN" bit clean-up alone may be worth it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-03-09diff: add --default-prefix optionJeff King1-0/+5
You can change the output of prefixes with diff.noprefix and diff.mnemonicprefix, but there's no easy way to override them from the command-line. We do have "--no-prefix", but there's no way to get back to the default prefix. So let's add an option to do that. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-01-13docs: link generating patch sectionsJohn Cai1-1/+7
Currently, in the git-log documentation, the reference to generating patches does not match the section title. This can make the section "Generating patch text with -p" hard to find, since typically readers of the documentation will copy and paste to search the page. Let's make this more convenient for readers by linking it directly to the section. Since git-log pulls in diff-generate-patch.txt, we can provide a direct link to the section. Otherwise, change the verbiage to match exactly what the section title is, to at least make searching for it an easier task. Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-02-16Merge branch 'js/diff-filter-negation-fix'Junio C Hamano1-5/+2
"git diff --diff-filter=aR" is now parsed correctly. * js/diff-filter-negation-fix: diff-filter: be more careful when looking for negative bits diff.c: move the diff filter bits definitions up a bit docs(diff): lose incorrect claim about `diff-files --diff-filter=A`
2022-02-02show, log: provide a --remerge-diff capabilityElijah Newren1-1/+13
When this option is specified, we remerge all (two parent) merge commits and diff the actual merge commit to the automatically created version, in order to show how users removed conflict markers, resolved the different conflict versions, and potentially added new changes outside of conflict regions in order to resolve semantic merge problems (or, possibly, just to hide other random changes). This capability works by creating a temporary object directory and marking it as the primary object store. This makes it so that any blobs or trees created during the automatic merge are easily removable afterwards by just deleting all objects from the temporary object directory. There are a few ways that this implementation is suboptimal: * `log --remerge-diff` becomes slow, because the temporary object directory can fill with many loose objects while running * the log output can be muddied with misplaced "warning: cannot merge binary files" messages, since ll-merge.c unconditionally writes those messages to stderr while running instead of allowing callers to manage them. * important conflict and warning messages are simply dropped; thus for conflicts like modify/delete or rename/rename or file/directory which are not representable with content conflict markers, there may be no way for a user of --remerge-diff to know that there had been a conflict which was resolved (and which possibly motivated other changes in the merge commit). * when fixing the previous issue, note that some unimportant conflict and warning messages might start being included. We should instead make sure these remain dropped. Subsequent commits will address these issues. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-01-28docs(diff): lose incorrect claim about `diff-files --diff-filter=A`Johannes Schindelin1-5/+2
Originally, before we had `--intent-to-add`, there was no way that `git diff-files` could see added files: if a file did not exist in the index, `git diff-files` would not show it because it looks only at worktree files when there is an index entry at the same path. We used this example in the documentation of the diff options to explain that not every `--diff-filter=<option>` has an effect in all scenarios. Even when we added `--intent-to-add`, the comment was still correct, because initially we showed such files as modified instead of added. However, when that bug was fixed in feea6946a5b (diff-files: treat "i-t-a" files as "not-in-index", 2020-06-20), the comment in the documentation became incorrect. Let's just remove it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-11Merge branch 'jn/log-m-does-not-imply-p'Junio C Hamano1-4/+4
Earlier "git log -m" was changed to always produce patch output, which would break existing scripts, which has been reverted. * jn/log-m-does-not-imply-p: Revert 'diff-merges: let "-m" imply "-p"'
2021-08-09Revert 'diff-merges: let "-m" imply "-p"'Jonathan Nieder1-4/+4
This reverts commit f5bfcc823ba242a46e20fb6f71c9fbf7ebb222fe, which made "git log -m" imply "--patch" by default. The logic was that "-m", which makes diff generation for merges perform a diff against each parent, has no use unless I am viewing the diff, so we could save the user some typing by turning on display of the resulting diff automatically. That wasn't expected to adversely affect scripts because scripts would either be using a command like "git diff-tree" that already emits diffs by default or would be combining -m with a diff generation option such as --name-status. By saving typing for interactive use without adversely affecting scripts in the wild, it would be a pure improvement. The problem is that although diff generation options are only relevant for the displayed diff, a script author can imagine them affecting path limiting. For example, I might run git log -w --format=%H -- README hoping to list commits that edited README, excluding whitespace-only changes. In fact, a whitespace-only change is not TREESAME so the use of -w here has no effect (since we don't apply these diff generation flags to the diff_options struct rev_info::pruning used for this purpose), but the documentation suggests that it should work Suppose you specified foo as the <paths>. We shall call commits that modify foo !TREESAME, and the rest TREESAME. (In a diff filtered for foo, they look different and equal, respectively.) and a script author who has not tested whitespace-only changes wouldn't notice. Similarly, a script author could include git log -m --first-parent --format=%H -- README to filter the first-parent history for commits that modified README. The -m is a no-op but it reflects the script author's intent. For example, until 1e20a407fe2 (stash list: stop passing "-m" to "git log", 2021-05-21), "git stash list" did this. As a result, we can't safely change "-m" to imply "-p" without fear of breaking such scripts. Restore the previous behavior. Noticed because Rust's src/bootstrap/bootstrap.py made use of this same construct: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/87513. That script has been updated to omit the unnecessary "-m" option, but we can expect other scripts in the wild to have similar expectations. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-15diffcore-rename: treat a rename_limit of 0 as unlimitedElijah Newren1-0/+1
In commit 89973554b52c (diffcore-rename: make diff-tree -l0 mean -l<large>, 2017-11-29), -l0 was given a special magical "large" value, but one which was not large enough for some uses (as can be seen from commit 9f7e4bfa3b6d (diff: remove silent clamp of renameLimit, 2017-11-13). Make 0 (or a negative value) be treated as unlimited instead and update the documentation to mention this. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-15doc: clarify documentation for rename/copy limitsElijah Newren1-5/+10
A few places in the docs implied that rename/copy detection is always quadratic or that all (unpaired) files were involved in the quadratic portion of rename/copy detection. The following two commits each introduced an exception to this: 9027f53cb505 (Do linear-time/space rename logic for exact renames, 2007-10-25) bd24aa2f97a0 (diffcore-rename: guide inexact rename detection based on basenames, 2021-02-14) (As a side note, for copy detection, the basename guided inexact rename detection is turned off and the exact renames will only result in sources (without the dests) being removed from the set of files used in quadratic detection. So, for copy detection, the documentation was closer to correct.) Avoid implying that all files involved in rename/copy detection are subject to the full quadratic algorithm. While at it, also note the default values for all these settings. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-06-14Merge branch 'so/log-m-implies-p'Junio C Hamano1-4/+4
The "-m" option in "git log -m" that does not specify which format, if any, of diff is desired did not have any visible effect; it now implies some form of diff (by default "--patch") is produced. * so/log-m-implies-p: diff-merges: let "-m" imply "-p" diff-merges: rename "combined_imply_patch" to "merges_imply_patch" stash list: stop passing "-m" to "git log" git-svn: stop passing "-m" to "git rev-list" diff-merges: move specific diff-index "-m" handling to diff-index t4013: test "git diff-index -m" t4013: test "git diff-tree -m" t4013: test "git log -m --stat" t4013: test "git log -m --raw" t4013: test that "-m" alone has no effect in "git log"
2021-05-21diff-merges: let "-m" imply "-p"Sergey Organov1-4/+4
Fix long standing inconsistency between -c/--cc that do imply -p on one side, and -m that did not imply -p on the other side. Change corresponding test accordingly, as "log -m" output should now match one from "log -m -p", rather than from just "log". Change documentation accordingly. NOTES: After this patch git log -m produces diffs without need to provide -p as well, that improves both consistency and usability. It gets even more useful if one sets "log.diffMerges" configuration variable to "first-parent" to force -m produce usual diff with respect to first parent only. This patch, however, does not change behavior when specific diff format is explicitly provided on the command-line, so that commands like git log -m --raw git log -m --stat are not affected, nor does it change commands where specific diff format is active by default, such as: git diff-tree -m It's also worth to be noticed that exact historical semantics of -m is still provided by --diff-merges=separate. Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-30Merge branch 'ab/pathname-encoding-doc'Junio C Hamano1-1/+4
Clarify that pathnames recorded in Git trees are most often (but not necessarily) encoded in UTF-8. * ab/pathname-encoding-doc: doc: clarify the filename encoding in git diff
2021-04-20doc: clarify the filename encoding in git diffAndrey Bienkowski1-1/+4
AFAICT parsing the output of `git diff --name-only master...feature` is the intended way of programmatically getting the list of files modified by a feature branch. It is impossible to parse text unless you know what encoding it is in. The output encoding of diff --name-only and Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-16doc/diff-options: document new --diff-merges featuresSergey Organov1-4/+11
Document changes in -m and --diff-merges=m semantics, as well as new --diff-merges=on option. Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-16diff: --{rotate,skip}-to=<path>Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
In the implementation of "git difftool", there is a case where the user wants to start viewing the diffs at a specific path and continue on to the rest, optionally wrapping around to the beginning. Since it is somewhat cumbersome to implement such a feature as a post-processing step of "git diff" output, let's support it internally with two new options. - "git diff --rotate-to=C", when the resulting patch would show paths A B C D E without the option, would "rotate" the paths to shows patch to C D E A B instead. It is an error when there is no patch for C is shown. - "git diff --skip-to=C" would instead "skip" the paths before C, and shows patch to C D E. Again, it is an error when there is no patch for C is shown. - "git log [-p]" also accepts these two options, but it is not an error if there is no change to the specified path. Instead, the set of output paths are rotated or skipped to the specified path or the first path that sorts after the specified path. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-05Merge branch 'so/log-diff-merge'Junio C Hamano1-0/+51
"git log" learned a new "--diff-merges=<how>" option. * so/log-diff-merge: (32 commits) t4013: add tests for --diff-merges=first-parent doc/git-show: include --diff-merges description doc/rev-list-options: document --first-parent changes merges format doc/diff-generate-patch: mention new --diff-merges option doc/git-log: describe new --diff-merges options diff-merges: add '--diff-merges=1' as synonym for 'first-parent' diff-merges: add old mnemonic counterparts to --diff-merges diff-merges: let new options enable diff without -p diff-merges: do not imply -p for new options diff-merges: implement new values for --diff-merges diff-merges: make -m/-c/--cc explicitly mutually exclusive diff-merges: refactor opt settings into separate functions diff-merges: get rid of now empty diff_merges_init_revs() diff-merges: group diff-merge flags next to each other inside 'rev_info' diff-merges: split 'ignore_merges' field diff-merges: fix -m to properly override -c/--cc t4013: add tests for -m failing to override -c/--cc t4013: support test_expect_failure through ':failure' magic diff-merges: revise revs->diff flag handling diff-merges: handle imply -p on -c/--cc logic for log.c ...
2020-12-21doc/git-show: include --diff-merges descriptionSergey Organov1-0/+51
Move description of --diff-merges option from git-log.txt to diff-options.txt so that it is included in the git-show help. Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-18Merge branch 'pb/blame-funcname-range-userdiff'Junio C Hamano1-1/+4
"git blame -L :funcname -- path" did not work well for a path for which a userdiff driver is defined. * pb/blame-funcname-range-userdiff: blame: simplify 'setup_blame_bloom_data' interface blame: simplify 'setup_scoreboard' interface blame: enable funcname blaming with userdiff driver line-log: mention both modes in 'blame' and 'log' short help doc: add more pointers to gitattributes(5) for userdiff blame-options.txt: also mention 'funcname' in '-L' description doc: line-range: improve formatting doc: log, gitk: move '-L' description to 'line-range-options.txt'
2020-11-11Merge branch 'jc/abbrev-doc'Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
The documentation on the "--abbrev=<n>" option did not say the output may be longer than "<n>" hexdigits, which has been clarified. * jc/abbrev-doc: doc: clarify that --abbrev=<n> is about the minimum length
2020-11-11Merge branch 'so/format-patch-doc-on-default-diff-format'Junio C Hamano1-3/+6
Docfix. * so/format-patch-doc-on-default-diff-format: doc/diff-options: fix out of place mentions of '--patch/-p'
2020-11-04doc: clarify that --abbrev=<n> is about the minimum lengthJunio C Hamano1-1/+2
Early text written in 2006 explains the "--abbrev=<n>" option to "show only a partial prefix", without saying that the length of the partial prefix is not necessarily the number given to the option to ensure that the output names the object uniquely. Update documentation for the diff family of commands, "blame", "branch --verbose", "ls-files" and "ls-tree" to stress that the short prefix must uniquely refer to an object, and <n> is merely the mininum number of hexdigits used in the prefix. Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-02Merge branch 'mk/diff-ignore-regex'Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
"git diff" family of commands learned the "-I<regex>" option to ignore hunks whose changed lines all match the given pattern. * mk/diff-ignore-regex: diff: add -I<regex> that ignores matching changes merge-base, xdiff: zero out xpparam_t structures
2020-11-01doc: add more pointers to gitattributes(5) for userdiffPhilippe Blain1-1/+4
Several Git commands can make use of the builtin userdiff patterns, but it's not obvious in the documentation. Add pointers to the 'Defining a custom hunk header' part of gitattributes(5) in the description of the following options: - the '--function-context' option of `git diff` and friends - the '--function-context' option of `git grep` - the '-L :<funcname>' option of `git log`, `gitk` and `git blame` In 'git-grep.txt', take the opportunity to use backticks in the description of '--show-function', and improve the wording of the desription of '--function-context'. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-10-31doc/diff-options: fix out of place mentions of '--patch/-p'Sergey Organov1-3/+6
First, references to --patch and -p appeared in the description of git-format-patch, where the options themselves are not included. Next, the description of --unified option elsewhere had duplicate implied statements: "Implies --patch. Implies -p." Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-10-20diff: add -I<regex> that ignores matching changesMichał Kępień1-0/+5
Add a new diff option that enables ignoring changes whose all lines (changed, removed, and added) match a given regular expression. This is similar to the -I/--ignore-matching-lines option in standalone diff utilities and can be used e.g. to ignore changes which only affect code comments or to look for unrelated changes in commits containing a large number of automatically applied modifications (e.g. a tree-wide string replacement). The difference between -G/-S and the new -I option is that the latter filters output on a per-change basis. Use the 'ignore' field of xdchange_t for marking a change as ignored or not. Since the same field is used by --ignore-blank-lines, identical hunk emitting rules apply for --ignore-blank-lines and -I. These two options can also be used together in the same git invocation (they are complementary to each other). Rename xdl_mark_ignorable() to xdl_mark_ignorable_lines(), to indicate that it is logically a "sibling" of xdl_mark_ignorable_regex() rather than its "parent". Signed-off-by: Michał Kępień <michal@isc.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-31Merge branch 'dd/diff-customize-index-line-abbrev'Junio C Hamano1-4/+5
The output from the "diff" family of the commands had abbreviated object names of blobs involved in the patch, but its length was not affected by the --abbrev option. Now it is. * dd/diff-customize-index-line-abbrev: diff: index-line: respect --abbrev in object's name t4013: improve diff-post-processor logic
2020-08-21diff: index-line: respect --abbrev in object's nameĐoàn Trần Công Danh1-4/+5
A handful of Git's commands respect `--abbrev' for customizing length of abbreviation of object names. For diff-family, Git supports 2 different options for 2 different purposes, `--full-index' for showing diff-patch object's name in full, and `--abbrev' to customize the length of object names in diff-raw and diff-tree header lines, without any options to customise the length of object names in diff-patch format. When working with diff-patch format, we only have two options, either full index, or default abbrev length. Although, that behaviour is documented, it doesn't stop users from trying to use `--abbrev' with the hope of customising diff-patch's objects' name's abbreviation. Let's allow the blob object names shown on the "index" line to be abbreviated to arbitrary length given via the "--abbrev" option. To preserve backward compatibility with old script that specify both `--full-index' and `--abbrev', always show full object id if `--full-index' is specified. Signed-off-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-29doc/git-log: move "-t" into diff-options listJeff King1-0/+5
The "-t" option is infrequently used; it doesn't deserve a spot near the top of the options list. Let's push it down into the diff-options include, near the definition of --raw. We'll protect it with a git-log ifdef, since it doesn't make any sense for non-tree diff commands. Note that this means it also shows up in git-show, but that's a good thing; it applies equally well there. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-24diff: add config option relativeLaurent Arnoud1-1/+4
The `diff.relative` boolean option set to `true` shows only changes in the current directory/value specified by the `path` argument of the `relative` option and shows pathnames relative to the aforementioned directory. Teach `--no-relative` to override earlier `--relative` Add for git-format-patch(1) options documentation `--relative` and `--no-relative` Signed-off-by: Laurent Arnoud <laurent@spkdev.net> Acked-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-09diff-options.txt: avoid "regex" overload in exampleMartin Ågren1-4/+4
When we exemplify the difference between `-G` and `-S` (using `--pickaxe-regex`), we do so using an example diff and git-diff invocation involving "regexec", "regexp", "regmatch", ... The example is correct, but we can make it easier to untangle by avoiding writing "regex.*" unless it's really needed to make our point. Use some made-up, non-regexy words instead. Reported-by: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org> Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-16Merge branch 'nd/diff-parseopt-3'Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Third batch to teach the diff machinery to use the parse-options API. * nd/diff-parseopt-3: diff-parseopt: convert --submodule diff-parseopt: convert --ignore-submodules diff-parseopt: convert --textconv diff-parseopt: convert --ext-diff diff-parseopt: convert --quiet diff-parseopt: convert --exit-code diff-parseopt: convert --color-words diff-parseopt: convert --word-diff-regex diff-parseopt: convert --word-diff diff-parseopt: convert --[no-]color diff-parseopt: convert --[no-]follow diff-parseopt: convert -R diff-parseopt: convert -a|--text diff-parseopt: convert --full-index diff-parseopt: convert --binary diff-parseopt: convert --anchored diff-parseopt: convert --diff-algorithm diff-parseopt: convert --histogram diff-parseopt: convert --patience diff-parseopt: convert --[no-]indent-heuristic
2019-03-07Merge branch 'nd/diff-parseopt-2'Junio C Hamano1-0/+20
Second batch to teach the diff machinery to use the parse-options API. * nd/diff-parseopt-2: (21 commits) diff-parseopt: convert --ignore-some-changes diff-parseopt: convert --[no-]minimal diff-parseopt: convert --relative diff-parseopt: convert --no-renames|--[no--rename-empty diff-parseopt: convert --find-copies-harder diff-parseopt: convert -C|--find-copies diff-parseopt: convert -D|--irreversible-delete diff-parseopt: convert -M|--find-renames diff-parseopt: convert -B|--break-rewrites diff-parseopt: convert --output-* diff-parseopt: convert --[no-]compact-summary diff-parseopt: convert --stat* diff-parseopt: convert -s|--no-patch diff-parseopt: convert --name-status diff-parseopt: convert --name-only diff-parseopt: convert --patch-with-stat diff-parseopt: convert --summary diff-parseopt: convert --check diff-parseopt: convert --dirstat and friends diff-parseopt: convert --numstat and --shortstat ...
2019-03-07Merge branch 'nd/diff-parseopt'Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
The diff machinery, one of the oldest parts of the system, which long predates the parse-options API, uses fairly long and complex handcrafted option parser. This is being rewritten to use the parse-options API. * nd/diff-parseopt: diff.c: convert --raw diff.c: convert -W|--[no-]function-context diff.c: convert -U|--unified diff.c: convert -u|-p|--patch diff.c: prepare to use parse_options() for parsing diff.h: avoid bit fields in struct diff_flags diff.h: keep forward struct declarations sorted parse-options: allow ll_callback with OPTION_CALLBACK parse-options: avoid magic return codes parse-options: stop abusing 'callback' for lowlevel callbacks parse-options: add OPT_BITOP() parse-options: disable option abbreviation with PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN parse-options: add one-shot mode parse-options.h: remove extern on function prototypes
2019-03-07diff-parseopt: convert --binaryNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-02-21diff-parseopt: convert --no-renames|--[no--rename-emptyNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+3
For --rename-empty, see 90d43b0768 (teach diffcore-rename to optionally ignore empty content - 2012-03-22) for more information. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-02-21diff-parseopt: convert --output-*Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+10
This also validates that the user specifies a single character in --output-indicator-*, not a string. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-02-21diff-parseopt: convert --dirstat and friendsNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+7
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-29Merge branch 'pw/diff-color-moved-ws-fix'Junio C Hamano1-2/+13
"git diff --color-moved-ws" updates. * pw/diff-color-moved-ws-fix: diff --color-moved-ws: handle blank lines diff --color-moved-ws: modify allow-indentation-change diff --color-moved-ws: optimize allow-indentation-change diff --color-moved=zebra: be stricter with color alternation diff --color-moved-ws: fix false positives diff --color-moved-ws: demonstrate false positives diff: allow --no-color-moved-ws Use "whitespace" consistently diff: document --no-color-moved
2019-01-27diff.c: convert -U|--unifiedNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-10diff: allow --no-color-moved-wsPhillip Wood1-0/+7
Allow --no-color-moved-ws and --color-moved-ws=no to cancel any previous --color-moved-ws option. Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-10Use "whitespace" consistentlyPhillip Wood1-2/+2
Most of the messages and documentation use 'whitespace' rather than 'white space' or 'white spaces' convert to latter two to the former for consistency. Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-10diff: document --no-color-movedPhillip Wood1-0/+4
Add documentation for --no-color-moved. Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-12-26log -G: ignore binary filesThomas Braun1-0/+5
The -G<regex> option of log looks for the differences whose patch text contains added/removed lines that match regex. Currently -G looks also into patches of binary files (which according to [1]) is binary as well. This has a couple of issues: - It makes the pickaxe search slow. In a proprietary repository of the author with only ~5500 commits and a total .git size of ~300MB searching takes ~13 seconds $time git log -Gwave > /dev/null real 0m13,241s user 0m12,596s sys 0m0,644s whereas when we ignore binary files with this patch it takes ~4s $time ~/devel/git/git log -Gwave > /dev/null real 0m3,713s user 0m3,608s sys 0m0,105s which is a speedup of more than fourfold. - The internally used algorithm for generating patch text is based on xdiff and its states in [1] > The output format of the binary patch file is proprietary > (and binary) and it is basically a collection of copy and insert > commands [..] which means that the current format could change once the internal algorithm is changed as the format is not standardized. In addition the git binary patch format used for preparing patches for git apply is *different* from the xdiff format as can be seen by comparing git log -p -a commit 6e95bf4bafccf14650d02ab57f3affe669be10cf Author: A U Thor <author@example.com> Date: Thu Apr 7 15:14:13 2005 -0700 modify binary file diff --git a/data.bin b/data.bin index f414c84..edfeb6f 100644 --- a/data.bin +++ b/data.bin @@ -1,2 +1,4 @@ a a^@a +a +a^@a with git log --binary commit 6e95bf4bafccf14650d02ab57f3affe669be10cf Author: A U Thor <author@example.com> Date: Thu Apr 7 15:14:13 2005 -0700 modify binary file diff --git a/data.bin b/data.bin index f414c84bd3aa25fa07836bb1fb73db784635e24b..edfeb6f501[..] GIT binary patch literal 12 QcmYe~N@Pgn0zx1O01)N^ZvX%Q literal 6 NcmYe~N@Pgn0ssWg0XP5v which seems unexpected. To resolve these issues this patch makes -G<regex> ignore binary files by default. Textconv filters are supported and also -a/--text for getting the old and broken behaviour back. The -S<block of text> option of log looks for differences that changes the number of occurrences of the specified block of text (i.e. addition/deletion) in a file. As we want to keep the current behaviour, add a test to ensure it stays that way. [1]: http://www.xmailserver.org/xdiff.html Signed-off-by: Thomas Braun <thomas.braun@virtuell-zuhause.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-15Merge branch 'es/diff-color-moved-fix'Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
One of the "diff --color-moved" mode "dimmed_zebra" that was named in an unusual way has been deprecated and replaced by "dimmed-zebra". * es/diff-color-moved-fix: diff: --color-moved: rename "dimmed_zebra" to "dimmed-zebra"
2018-08-02Merge branch 'sb/diff-color-move-more'Junio C Hamano1-2/+31
"git diff --color-moved" feature has further been tweaked. * sb/diff-color-move-more: diff.c: offer config option to control ws handling in move detection diff.c: add white space mode to move detection that allows indent changes diff.c: factor advance_or_nullify out of mark_color_as_moved diff.c: decouple white space treatment from move detection algorithm diff.c: add a blocks mode for moved code detection diff.c: adjust hash function signature to match hashmap expectation diff.c: do not pass diff options as keydata to hashmap t4015: avoid git as a pipe input xdiff/xdiffi.c: remove unneeded function declarations xdiff/xdiff.h: remove unused flags
2018-07-25diff: --color-moved: rename "dimmed_zebra" to "dimmed-zebra"Eric Sunshine1-1/+2
The --color-moved "dimmed_zebra" mode (with an underscore) is an anachronism. Most options and modes are hyphenated. It is more difficult to type and somewhat more difficult to read than those which are hyphenated. Therefore, rename it to "dimmed-zebra", and nominally deprecate "dimmed_zebra". Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-19diff.c: offer config option to control ws handling in move detectionStefan Beller1-2/+5
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-19diff.c: add white space mode to move detection that allows indent changesStefan Beller1-0/+5
The option of --color-moved has proven to be useful as observed on the mailing list. However when refactoring sometimes the indentation changes, for example when partitioning a functions into smaller helper functions the code usually mostly moved around except for a decrease in indentation. To just review the moved code ignoring the change in indentation, a mode to ignore spaces in the move detection as implemented in a previous patch would be enough. However the whole move coloring as motivated in commit 2e2d5ac (diff.c: color moved lines differently, 2017-06-30), brought up the notion of the reviewer being able to trust the move of a "block". As there are languages such as python, which depend on proper relative indentation for the control flow of the program, ignoring any white space change in a block would not uphold the promises of 2e2d5ac that allows reviewers to pay less attention to the inside of a block, as inside the reviewer wants to assume the same program flow. This new mode of white space ignorance will take this into account and will only allow the same white space changes per line in each block. This patch even allows only for the same change at the beginning of the lines. As this is a white space mode, it is made exclusive to other white space modes in the move detection. This patch brings some challenges, related to the detection of blocks. We need a wide net to catch the possible moved lines, but then need to narrow down to check if the blocks are still intact. Consider this example (ignoring block sizes): - A - B - C + A + B + C At the beginning of a block when checking if there is a counterpart for A, we have to ignore all space changes. However at the following lines we have to check if the indent change stayed the same. Checking if the indentation change did stay the same, is done by computing the indentation change by the difference in line length, and then assume the change is only in the beginning of the longer line, the common tail is the same. That is why the test contains lines like: - <TAB> A ... + A <TAB> ... As the first line starting a block is caught using a compare function that ignores white spaces unlike the rest of the block, where the white space delta is taken into account for the comparison, we also have to think about the following situation: - A - B - A - B + A + B + A + B When checking if the first A (both in the + and - lines) is a start of a block, we have to check all 'A' and record all the white space deltas such that we can find the example above to be just one block that is indented. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-17diff.c: decouple white space treatment from move detection algorithmStefan Beller1-0/+17
In the original implementation of the move detection logic the choice for ignoring white space changes is the same for the move detection as it is for the regular diff. Some cases came up where different treatment would have been nice. Allow the user to specify that white space should be ignored differently during detection of moved lines than during generation of added and removed lines. This is done by providing analogs to the --ignore-space-at-eol, -b, and -w options by introducing the option --color-moved-ws=<modes> with the modes named "ignore-space-at-eol", "ignore-space-change" and "ignore-all-space", which is used only during the move detection phase. As we change the default, we'll adjust the tests. For now we do not infer any options to treat white spaces in the move detection from the generic white space options given to diff. This can be tuned later to reasonable default. As we plan on adding more white space related options in a later patch, that interferes with the current white space options, use a flag field and clamp it down to XDF_WHITESPACE_FLAGS, as that (a) allows to easily check at parse time if we give invalid combinations and (b) can reuse parts of this patch. By having the white space treatment in its own option, we'll also make it easier for a later patch to have an config option for spaces in the move detection. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-17diff.c: add a blocks mode for moved code detectionStefan Beller1-2/+6
The new "blocks" mode provides a middle ground between plain and zebra. It is as intuitive (few colors) as plain, but still has the requirement for a minimum of lines/characters to count a block as moved. Suggested-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> (https://public-inbox.org/git/87o9j0uljo.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/) Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-19doc: fix typos in documentation and release notesKarthikeyan Singaravelan1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Karthikeyan Singaravelan <tir.karthi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-18Merge branch 'rd/diff-options-typofix'Junio C Hamano1-4/+4
Typofix. * rd/diff-options-typofix: diff-options.txt: fix minor typos, font inconsistencies, in docs
2018-06-11diff-options.txt: fix minor typos, font inconsistencies, in docsRobert P. J. Day1-4/+4
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-25Merge branch 'en/doc-typoes'Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
Docfix. * en/doc-typoes: Documentation: normalize spelling of 'normalised' Documentation: fix several one-character-off spelling errors
2018-04-09Documentation: fix several one-character-off spelling errorsElijah Newren1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-03-14Merge branch 'nd/diff-stat-with-summary'Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
"git diff" and friends learned "--compact-summary" that shows the information usually given with the "--summary" option on the same line as the diffstat output of the "--stat" option (which saves vertical space and keeps info on a single path at the same place). * nd/diff-stat-with-summary: diff: add --compact-summary diff.c: refactor pprint_rename() to use strbuf
2018-02-27diff: add --compact-summaryNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+8
Certain information is currently shown with --summary, but when used in combination with --stat it's a bit hard to read since info of the same file is in two places (--stat and --summary). On top of that, commits that add or remove files double the number of display lines, which could be a lot if you add or remove a lot of files. --compact-summary embeds most of --summary back in --stat in the little space between the file name part and the graph line, e.g. with commit 0433d533f1: Documentation/merge-config.txt | 4 + builtin/merge.c | 2 + ...-pull-verify-signatures.sh (new +x) | 81 ++++++++++++++ t/t7612-merge-verify-signatures.sh | 45 ++++++++ 4 files changed, 132 insertions(+) It helps both condensing information and saving some text space. What's new in diffstat is: - A new 0644 file is shown as (new) - A new 0755 file is shown as (new +x) - A new symlink is shown as (new +l) - A deleted file is shown as (gone) - A mode change adding executable bit is shown as (mode +x) - A mode change removing it is shown as (mode -x) Note that --compact-summary does not contain all the information --summary provides. Rewrite percentage is not shown but it could be added later, like R50% or C20%. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-23Merge branch 'sb/diff-blobfind-pickaxe'Junio C Hamano1-0/+10
"diff" family of commands learned "--find-object=<object-id>" option to limit the findings to changes that involve the named object. * sb/diff-blobfind-pickaxe: diff: use HAS_MULTI_BITS instead of counting bits manually diff: properly error out when combining multiple pickaxe options diffcore: add a pickaxe option to find a specific blob diff: introduce DIFF_PICKAXE_KINDS_MASK diff: migrate diff_flags.pickaxe_ignore_case to a pickaxe_opts bit diff.h: make pickaxe_opts an unsigned bit field
2018-01-09Merge branch 'jk/doc-diff-options'Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
Doc update. * jk/doc-diff-options: docs/diff-options: clarify scope of diff-filter types
2018-01-04diffcore: add a pickaxe option to find a specific blobStefan Beller1-0/+10
Sometimes users are given a hash of an object and they want to identify it further (ex.: Use verify-pack to find the largest blobs, but what are these? or [1]) One might be tempted to extend git-describe to also work with blobs, such that `git describe <blob-id>` gives a description as '<commit-ish>:<path>'. This was implemented at [2]; as seen by the sheer number of responses (>110), it turns out this is tricky to get right. The hard part to get right is picking the correct 'commit-ish' as that could be the commit that (re-)introduced the blob or the blob that removed the blob; the blob could exist in different branches. Junio hinted at a different approach of solving this problem, which this patch implements. Teach the diff machinery another flag for restricting the information to what is shown. For example: $ ./git log --oneline --find-object=v2.0.0:Makefile b2feb64309 Revert the whole "ask curl-config" topic for now 47fbfded53 i18n: only extract comments marked with "TRANSLATORS:" we observe that the Makefile as shipped with 2.0 was appeared in v1.9.2-471-g47fbfded53 and in v2.0.0-rc1-5-gb2feb6430b. The reason why these commits both occur prior to v2.0.0 are evil merges that are not found using this new mechanism. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/223678/which-commit-has-this-blob [2] https://public-inbox.org/git/20171028004419.10139-1-sbeller@google.com/ Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-04docs/diff-options: clarify scope of diff-filter typesJeff King1-0/+6
The same document for "--diff-filter" is included by many programs in the diff family. Because it mentions all possible types (added, removed, etc), this may imply to the reader that all types can be generated by a particular command. But this isn't necessarily the case; "diff-files" cannot generally produce an "Added" entry, since the diff is limited to what is already in the index. Let's make it clear that the list here is the full one, and does not imply anything about what a particular invocation may produce. Note that conditionally including items (e.g., omitting "Added" in the git-diff-files manpage) isn't the right solution here for two reasons: - The problem isn't diff-files, but doing an index to working tree diff. "git diff" can do the same diff, but also has other modes where "Added" does show up. - The direction of the diff matters. Doing "diff-files -R" can get you Added entries (but not Deleted ones). So it's best just to explain that the set of available types depends on the specific diff invocation. Reported-by: John Cheng <johnlicheng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-11-28diff: support anchoring line(s)Jonathan Tan1-0/+10
Teach diff a new algorithm, one that attempts to prevent user-specified lines from appearing as a deletion or addition in the end result. The end user can use this by specifying "--anchored=<text>" one or more times when using Git commands like "diff" and "show". Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-11-27Merge branch 'jc/ignore-cr-at-eol'Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
The "diff" family of commands learned to ignore differences in carriage return at the end of line. * jc/ignore-cr-at-eol: diff: --ignore-cr-at-eol xdiff: reassign xpparm_t.flags bits
2017-11-15Merge branch 'cn/diff-indent-no-longer-is-experimental' into maintJunio C Hamano1-1/+6
Doc update. * cn/diff-indent-no-longer-is-experimental: diff: --indent-heuristic is no longer experimental
2017-11-08diff: --ignore-cr-at-eolJunio C Hamano1-0/+3
A new option --ignore-cr-at-eol tells the diff machinery to treat a carriage-return at the end of a (complete) line as if it does not exist. Just like other "--ignore-*" options to ignore various kinds of whitespace differences, this will help reviewing the real changes you made without getting distracted by spurious CRLF<->LF conversion made by your editor program. Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> [jch: squashed in command line completion by Dscho] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-11-06Merge branch 'cn/diff-indent-no-longer-is-experimental'Junio C Hamano1-1/+6
Doc update. * cn/diff-indent-no-longer-is-experimental: diff: --indent-heuristic is no longer experimental
2017-11-02diff: --indent-heuristic is no longer experimentalCarlos Martín Nieto1-1/+6
This heuristic has been the default since 2.14 so we should not confuse our users by saying that it's experimental and off by default. Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@dwim.me> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-26Merge branch 'jt/diff-color-move-fix'Junio C Hamano1-5/+3
A handful of bugfixes and an improvement to "diff --color-moved". * jt/diff-color-move-fix: diff: define block by number of alphanumeric chars diff: respect MIN_BLOCK_LENGTH for last block diff: avoid redundantly clearing a flag
2017-08-26Merge branch 'sb/diff-color-move'Junio C Hamano1-0/+36
"git diff" has been taught to optionally paint new lines that are the same as deleted lines elsewhere differently from genuinely new lines. * sb/diff-color-move: (25 commits) diff: document the new --color-moved setting diff.c: add dimming to moved line detection diff.c: color moved lines differently, plain mode diff.c: color moved lines differently diff.c: buffer all output if asked to diff.c: emit_diff_symbol learns about DIFF_SYMBOL_SUMMARY diff.c: emit_diff_symbol learns about DIFF_SYMBOL_STAT_SEP diff.c: convert word diffing to use emit_diff_symbol diff.c: convert show_stats to use emit_diff_symbol diff.c: convert emit_binary_diff_body to use emit_diff_symbol submodule.c: migrate diff output to use emit_diff_symbol diff.c: emit_diff_symbol learns DIFF_SYMBOL_REWRITE_DIFF diff.c: emit_diff_symbol learns about DIFF_SYMBOL_BINARY_FILES diff.c: emit_diff_symbol learns DIFF_SYMBOL_HEADER diff.c: emit_diff_symbol learns DIFF_SYMBOL_FILEPAIR_{PLUS, MINUS} diff.c: emit_diff_symbol learns DIFF_SYMBOL_CONTEXT_INCOMPLETE diff.c: emit_diff_symbol learns DIFF_SYMBOL_WORDS[_PORCELAIN] diff.c: migrate emit_line_checked to use emit_diff_symbol diff.c: emit_diff_symbol learns DIFF_SYMBOL_NO_LF_EOF diff.c: emit_diff_symbol learns DIFF_SYMBOL_CONTEXT_FRAGINFO ...
2017-08-23Merge branch 'ah/doc-wserrorhighlight' into maintJunio C Hamano1-9/+8
Doc update. * ah/doc-wserrorhighlight: doc: add missing values "none" and "default" for diff.wsErrorHighlight
2017-08-16diff: define block by number of alphanumeric charsJonathan Tan1-5/+3
The existing behavior of diff --color-moved=zebra does not define the minimum size of a block at all, instead relying on a heuristic applied later to filter out sets of adjacent moved lines that are shorter than 3 lines long. This can be confusing, because a block could thus be colored as moved at the source but not at the destination (or vice versa), depending on its neighbors. Instead, teach diff that the minimum size of a block is 20 alphanumeric characters, the same heuristic used by "git blame". This allows diff to still exclude uninteresting lines appearing on their own (such as those solely consisting of one or a few closing braces), as was the intention of the adjacent-moved-line heuristic. This requires a change in some tests in that some of their lines are no longer considered to be part of a block, because they are too short. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-11Merge branch 'ah/doc-wserrorhighlight'Junio C Hamano1-9/+8
Doc update. * ah/doc-wserrorhighlight: doc: add missing values "none" and "default" for diff.wsErrorHighlight
2017-07-31diff-options doc: grammar fixAnthony Sottile1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Anthony Sottile <asottile@umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-07-25doc: add missing values "none" and "default" for diff.wsErrorHighlightAndreas Heiduk1-9/+8
The values have eluded documentation so far. While at it streamline the wording by grouping relevant parts together. Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-30diff: document the new --color-moved settingStefan Beller1-0/+36
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-03-02Documentation: improve description for core.quotePathAndreas Heiduk1-4/+3
Linking the description for pathname quoting to the configuration variable "core.quotePath" removes inconstistent and incomplete sections while also giving two hints how to deal with it: Either with "-c core.quotePath=false" or with "-z". Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-01-23Merge branch 'rh/diff-orderfile-doc'Junio C Hamano1-2/+32
Documentation fix. * rh/diff-orderfile-doc: diff: document the format of the -O (diff.orderFile) file diff: document behavior of relative diff.orderFile
2017-01-15diff: document the format of the -O (diff.orderFile) fileRichard Hansen1-2/+32
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <hansenr@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-01-12diff: add interhunk context config optionVegard Nossum1-0/+2
The --inter-hunk-context= option was added in commit 6d0e674a5754 ("diff: add option to show context between close hunks"). This patch allows configuring a default for this option. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-27Merge branch 'nd/ita-empty-commit'Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
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"
2016-10-26Merge branch 'jc/ws-error-highlight'Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
"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
2016-10-24diff: add --ita-[in]visible-in-indexNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+8
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>
2016-10-04diff: introduce diff.wsErrorHighlight optionJunio C Hamano1-0/+2
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>
2016-09-26Merge branch 'mh/diff-indent-heuristic'Junio C Hamano1-6/+1
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
2016-09-19blame: honor the diff heuristic options and configMichael Haggerty1-7/+1
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>
2016-09-19diff: improve positioning of add/delete blocks in diffsMichael Haggerty1-4/+5
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>
2016-08-31diff: teach diff to display submodule difference with an inline diffJacob Keller1-7/+10
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>
2016-08-31graph: add support for --line-prefix on all graph-aware outputJacob Keller1-0/+3
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>
2016-07-25Merge branch 'jc/doc-diff-filter-exclude'Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
Belated doc update for a feature added in v1.8.5. * jc/doc-diff-filter-exclude: diff: document diff-filter exclusion
2016-07-14diff: document diff-filter exclusionJunio C Hamano1-0/+3
In v1.8.5 days, 7f2ea5f0 (diff: allow lowercase letter to specify what change class to exclude, 2013-07-17) taught the "--diff-filter" mechanism to take lowercase letters as exclusion, but we forgot to document it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-10Merge branch 'jk/diff-compact-heuristic'Junio C Hamano1-0/+7
It turns out that the earlier effort to update the heuristics may want to use a bit more time to mature. Turn it off by default. * jk/diff-compact-heuristic: diff: disable compaction heuristic for now
2016-06-10diff: disable compaction heuristic for nowJunio C Hamano1-0/+7
http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20160610075043.GA13411@sigill.intra.peff.net reports that a change to add a new "function" with common ending with the existing one at the end of the file is shown like this: def foo do_foo_stuff() + common_ending() +end + +def bar + do_bar_stuff() + common_ending() end when the new heuristic is in use. In reality, the change is to add the blank line before "def bar" and everything below, which is what the code without the new heuristic shows. Disable the heuristics by default, and resurrect the documentation for the option and the configuration variables, while clearly marking the feature as still experimental. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-05-09Documentation: fix linkgit referencesJunio C Hamano1-1/+1
There are a handful of incorrect "linkgit:<page>[<section>]" instances in our documentation set. * Some have an extra colon after "linkgit:"; fix them by removing the extra colon; * Some refer to a page outside the Git suite, namely curl(1); fix them by using the `curl(1)` that already appears on the same page for the same purpose of referring the readers to its manual page. * Some spell the name of the page incorrectly, e.g. "rev-list" when they mean "git-rev-list"; fix them. * Some list the manual section incorrectly; fix them to make sure they match what is at the top of the target of the link. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-05-02Merge branch 'es/format-patch-doc-hide-no-patch' into maintJunio C Hamano1-1/+1
"git format-patch --help" showed `-s` and `--no-patch` as if these are valid options to the command. We already hide `--patch` option from the documentation, because format-patch is about showing the diff, and the documentation now hides these options as well. * es/format-patch-doc-hide-no-patch: git-format-patch.txt: don't show -s as shorthand for multiple options
2016-05-02diff: undocument the compaction heuristic knobs for experimentationJunio C Hamano1-6/+0
It seems that people around here are all happy with the updated heuristics used to decide where the hunks are separated. Let's keep that as the default. Even though we do not expect too much trouble from the difference between the old and the new algorithms, just in case let's leave the implementation of the knobs to turn it off for emergencies. There is no longer need for documenting them, though. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-19xdiff: implement empty line chunk heuristicStefan Beller1-0/+6
In order to produce the smallest possible diff and combine several diff hunks together, we implement a heuristic from GNU Diff which moves diff hunks forward as far as possible when we find common context above and below a diff hunk. This sometimes produces less readable diffs when writing C, Shell, or other programming languages, ie: ... /* + * + * + */ + +/* ... instead of the more readable equivalent of ... +/* + * + * + */ + /* ... Implement the following heuristic to (optionally) produce the desired output. If there are diff chunks which can be shifted around, shift each hunk such that the last common empty line is below the chunk with the rest of the context above. This heuristic appears to resolve the above example and several other common issues without producing significantly weird results. However, as with any heuristic it is not really known whether this will always be more optimal. Thus, it can be disabled via diff.compactionHeuristic. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-04git-format-patch.txt: don't show -s as shorthand for multiple optionsEric Sunshine1-1/+1
git-format-patch recognizes -s as shorthand only for --signoff, however, its documentation shows -s as shorthand for both --signoff and --no-patch. Resolve this confusion by suppressing the bogus -s shorthand for --no-patch. While here, also avoid showing the --no-patch option in git-format-patch documentation since it doesn't make sense to ask to suppress the patch while at the same time explicitly asking to format the patch (which, after all, is the purpose of git-format-patch). Reported-by: Kevin Brodsky <corax26@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-03-29Documentation: git diff --check detects conflict markersOri Avtalion1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Ori Avtalion <ori@avtalion.name> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-11-24Documentation/diff: give --word-diff-regex=. exampleMichael J Gruber1-0/+3
It's just so useful. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2015-06-16Merge branch 'mm/log-format-raw-doc' into maintJunio C Hamano1-1/+10
Clarify that "log --raw" and "log --format=raw" are unrelated concepts. * mm/log-format-raw-doc: Documentation/log: clarify sha1 non-abbreviation in log --raw Documentation/log: clarify what --raw means
2015-06-11Merge branch 'jc/diff-ws-error-highlight'Junio C Hamano1-0/+10
Allow whitespace breakages in deleted and context lines to be also painted in the output. * jc/diff-ws-error-highlight: diff.c: --ws-error-highlight=<kind> option diff.c: add emit_del_line() and emit_context_line() t4015: separate common setup and per-test expectation t4015: modernise style
2015-06-05Merge branch 'jk/asciidoc-markup-fix' into maintJunio C Hamano1-2/+6
Various documentation mark-up fixes to make the output more consistent in general and also make AsciiDoctor (an alternative formatter) happier. * jk/asciidoc-markup-fix: doc: convert AsciiDoc {?foo} to ifdef::foo[] doc: put example URLs and emails inside literal backticks doc: drop backslash quoting of some curly braces doc: convert \--option to --option doc/add: reformat `--edit` option doc: fix length of underlined section-title doc: fix hanging "+"-continuation doc: fix unquoted use of "{type}" doc: fix misrendering due to `single quote'
2015-06-01Merge branch 'mm/log-format-raw-doc'Junio C Hamano1-1/+10
Clarify that "log --raw" and "log --format=raw" are unrelated concepts. * mm/log-format-raw-doc: Documentation/log: clarify sha1 non-abbreviation in log --raw Documentation/log: clarify what --raw means
2015-05-26diff.c: --ws-error-highlight=<kind> optionJunio C Hamano1-0/+10
Traditionally, we only cared about whitespace breakages introduced in new lines. Some people want to paint whitespace breakages on old lines, too. When they see a whitespace breakage on a new line, they can spot the same kind of whitespace breakage on the corresponding old line and want to say "Ah, those breakages are there but they were inherited from the original, so let's not touch them for now." Introduce `--ws-error-highlight=<kind>` option, that lets them pass a comma separated list of `old`, `new`, and `context` to specify what lines to highlight whitespace errors on. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-22Merge branch 'jk/asciidoc-markup-fix'Junio C Hamano1-2/+6
Various documentation mark-up fixes to make the output more consistent in general and also make AsciiDoctor (an alternative formatter) happier. * jk/asciidoc-markup-fix: doc: convert AsciiDoc {?foo} to ifdef::foo[] doc: put example URLs and emails inside literal backticks doc: drop backslash quoting of some curly braces doc: convert \--option to --option doc/add: reformat `--edit` option doc: fix length of underlined section-title doc: fix hanging "+"-continuation doc: fix unquoted use of "{type}" doc: fix misrendering due to `single quote'
2015-05-18Documentation/log: clarify what --raw meansMatthieu Moy1-1/+10
There are several "raw formats", and describing --raw as "Generate the raw format" in the documentation for git-log seems to imply that it generates the raw *log* format. Clarify the wording by saying "raw diff format" explicitly, and make a special-case for "git log": "git log --raw" does not just change the format, it shows something which is not shown by default. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-14doc: convert AsciiDoc {?foo} to ifdef::foo[]Jeff King1-2/+6
The former seems to just be syntactic sugar for the latter. And as it's sugar that AsciiDoctor doesn't understand, it would be nice to avoid it. Since there are only two spots, and the resulting source is not significantly harder to read, it's worth doing. Note that this does slightly affect the generated HTML (it has an extra newline), but the rendered result for both HTML and docbook should be the same (since the newline is not syntactically significant there). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-03-13*config.txt: stick to camelCase naming conventionNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-2/+2
This should improve readability. Compare "thislongname" and "thisLongName". The following keys are left in unchanged. We can decide what to do with them later. - am.keepcr - core.autocrlf .safecrlf .trustctime - diff.dirstat .noprefix - gitcvs.usecrlfattr - gui.blamehistoryctx .trustmtime - pull.twohead - receive.autogc - sendemail.signedoffbycc .smtpsslcertpath .suppresscc Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-31Documentation: fix misuses of "nor"Justin Lebar1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Justin Lebar <jlebar@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-18diff: add diff.orderfile configuration variableSamuel Bronson1-0/+3
diff.orderfile acts as a default for the -O command line option. [sb: split up aw's original patch; rework tests and docs, treat option as pathname] Signed-off-by: Anders Waldenborg <anders@0x63.nu> Signed-off-by: Samuel Bronson <naesten@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-22Merge branch 'mm/diff-no-patch-synonym-to-s'Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
"git show -s" was less discoverable than it should be. * mm/diff-no-patch-synonym-to-s: Documentation/git-log.txt: capitalize section names Documentation: move description of -s, --no-patch to diff-options.txt Documentation/git-show.txt: include common diff options, like git-log.txt diff: allow --patch & cie to override -s/--no-patch diff: allow --no-patch as synonym for -s t4000-diff-format.sh: modernize style
2013-07-17Documentation: move description of -s, --no-patch to diff-options.txtMatthieu Moy1-0/+5
Technically, "-s, --no-patch" is implemented in diff.c ("git diff --no-patch" is essentially useless, but valid). From the user point of view, this allows the documentation to show up in "git show --help", which is one of the most useful use of the option. While we're there, add a sentence explaining why the option can be useful. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-12Merge branch 'ft/diff-rename-default-score-is-half'Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* ft/diff-rename-default-score-is-half: diff-options: document default similarity index
2013-07-05diff-options: document default similarity indexFraser Tweedale1-1/+1
The default similarity index of 50% is documented in gitdiffcore(7) but it is worth also mentioning it in the description of the -M/--find-renames option. Signed-off-by: Fraser Tweedale <frase@frase.id.au> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-30Merge branch 'ap/diff-ignore-blank-lines'Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
"git diff" learned a mode that ignores hunks whose change consists only of additions and removals of blank lines, which is the same as "diff -B" (ignore blank lines) of GNU diff. * ap/diff-ignore-blank-lines: diff: add --ignore-blank-lines option
2013-06-19diff: add --ignore-blank-lines optionAntoine Pelisse1-0/+3
The goal of the patch is to introduce the GNU diff -B/--ignore-blank-lines as closely as possible. The short option is not available because it's already used for "break-rewrites". When this option is used, git-diff will not create hunks that simply add or remove empty lines, but will still show empty lines addition/suppression if they are close enough to "valuable" changes. There are two differences between this option and GNU diff -B option: - GNU diff doesn't have "--inter-hunk-context", so this must be handled - The following sequence looks like a bug (context is displayed twice): $ seq 5 >file1 $ cat <<EOF >file2 change 1 2 3 4 5 change EOF $ diff -u -B file1 file2 --- file1 2013-06-08 22:13:04.471517834 +0200 +++ file2 2013-06-08 22:13:23.275517855 +0200 @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ +change 1 2 + 3 4 5 @@ -3,3 +5,4 @@ 3 4 5 +change So here is a more thorough description of the option: - real changes are interesting - blank lines that are close enough (less than context size) to interesting changes are considered interesting (recursive definition) - "context" lines are used around each hunk of interesting changes - If two hunks are separated by less than "inter-hunk-context", they will be merged into one. The implementation does the "interesting changes selection" in a single pass. Signed-off-by: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-11Merge branch 'rr/diffcore-pickaxe-doc'Junio C Hamano1-8/+30
Update the low-level diffcore documentation on -S/-G and --pickaxe-all. * rr/diffcore-pickaxe-doc: diffcore-pickaxe doc: document -S and -G properly diffcore-pickaxe: make error messages more consistent
2013-06-03diffcore-pickaxe doc: document -S and -G properlyRamkumar Ramachandra1-8/+30
The documentation of -S and -G is very sketchy. Completely rewrite the sections in Documentation/diff-options.txt and Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt. References: 52e9578 ([PATCH] Introducing software archaeologist's tool "pickaxe".) f506b8e (git log/diff: add -G<regexp> that greps in the patch text) Inputs-from: Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-28trivial: Add missing period in documentationPhil Hord1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-25Merge branch 'maint-1.8.1' into maintJunio C Hamano1-2/+2
* maint-1.8.1: bundle: Add colons to list headings in "verify" bundle: Fix "verify" output if history is complete Documentation: filter-branch env-filter example git-filter-branch.txt: clarify ident variables usage git-compat-util.h: Provide missing netdb.h definitions describe: Document --match pattern format Documentation/githooks: Explain pre-rebase parameters update-index: list supported idx versions and their features diff-options: unconfuse description of --color read-cache.c: use INDEX_FORMAT_{LB,UB} in verify_hdr() index-format.txt: mention of v4 is missing in some places
2013-03-25Merge branch 'jc/color-diff-doc' into maint-1.8.1Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
The "--color=<when>" argument to the commands in the diff family was described poorly. * jc/color-diff-doc: diff-options: unconfuse description of --color
2013-03-19Merge branch 'jc/color-diff-doc'Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
The --color[=<when>] option to the diff family was documented in a confusing way. * jc/color-diff-doc: diff-options: unconfuse description of --color
2013-02-22diff-options: unconfuse description of --colorJunio C Hamano1-2/+2
It said "by default it is off" while it also said "the default is always", which confused everybody who read it only once. It wanted to say (1) if you do not say --color, it is not enabled, and (2) if you say --color but do not say when to enable it, it will always be enabled". Rephrase to clarify by using "default" only once. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-17Merge branch 'mp/diff-algo-config'Junio C Hamano1-0/+20
Add diff.algorithm configuration so that the user does not type "diff --histogram". * mp/diff-algo-config: diff: Introduce --diff-algorithm command line option config: Introduce diff.algorithm variable git-completion.bash: Autocomplete --minimal and --histogram for git-diff
2013-02-01Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'Thomas Ackermann1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-16diff: Introduce --diff-algorithm command line optionMichal Privoznik1-0/+20
Since command line options have higher priority than config file variables and taking previous commit into account, we need a way how to specify myers algorithm on command line. However, inventing `--myers` is not the right answer. We need far more general option, and that is `--diff-algorithm`. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-18Sync with 'maint'Junio C Hamano1-1/+5
2012-12-18clarify -M without % symbol in diff-optionsSitaram Chamarty1-1/+5
Signed-off-by: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-11-18diff: introduce diff.submodule configuration variableRamkumar Ramachandra1-1/+2
Introduce a diff.submodule configuration variable corresponding to the '--submodule' command-line option of 'git diff'. Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-22Documentation: Fix misspellingsLeila Muhtasib1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Leila Muhtasib <muhtasib@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-26docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literalJeff King1-1/+1
In asciidoc 7, backticks like `foo` produced a typographic effect, but did not otherwise affect the syntax. In asciidoc 8, backticks introduce an "inline literal" inside which markup is not interpreted. To keep compatibility with existing documents, asciidoc 8 has a "no-inline-literal" attribute to keep the old behavior. We enabled this so that the documentation could be built on either version. It has been several years now, and asciidoc 7 is no longer in wide use. We can now decide whether or not we want inline literals on their own merits, which are: 1. The source is much easier to read when the literal contains punctuation. You can use `master~1` instead of `master{tilde}1`. 2. They are less error-prone. Because of point (1), we tend to make mistakes and forget the extra layer of quoting. This patch removes the no-inline-literal attribute from the Makefile and converts every use of backticks in the documentation to an inline literal (they must be cleaned up, or the example above would literally show "{tilde}" in the output). Problematic sites were found by grepping for '`.*[{\\]' and examined and fixed manually. The results were then verified by comparing the output of "html2text" on the set of generated html pages. Doing so revealed that in addition to making the source more readable, this patch fixes several formatting bugs: - HTML rendering used the ellipsis character instead of literal "..." in code examples (like "git log A...B") - some code examples used the right-arrow character instead of '->' because they failed to quote - api-config.txt did not quote tilde, and the resulting HTML contained a bogus snippet like: <tt><sub></tt> foo <tt></sub>bar</tt> which caused some parsers to choke and omit whole sections of the page. - git-commit.txt confused ``foo`` (backticks inside a literal) with ``foo'' (matched double-quotes) - mentions of `A U Thor <author@example.com>` used to erroneously auto-generate a mailto footnote for author@example.com - the description of --word-diff=plain incorrectly showed the output as "[-removed-] and {added}", not "{+added+}". - using "prime" notation like: commit `C` and its replacement `C'` confused asciidoc into thinking that everything between the first backtick and the final apostrophe were meant to be inside matched quotes - asciidoc got confused by the escaping of some of our asterisks. In particular, `credential.\*` and `credential.<url>.\*` properly escaped the asterisk in the first case, but literally passed through the backslash in the second case. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-15Merge branch 'th/doc-diff-submodule-option'Junio C Hamano1-5/+6
* th/doc-diff-submodule-option: Documentation/diff-options: reword description of --submodule option
2012-03-14Documentation/diff-options: reword description of --submodule optionTim Henigan1-5/+6
The previous description was confusing. This rewrite makes it easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-06Merge branch 'zj/diff-stat-dyncol'Junio C Hamano1-6/+12
By Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (8) and Junio C Hamano (1) * zj/diff-stat-dyncol: : This breaks tests. Perhaps it is not worth using the decimal-width stuff : for this series, at least initially. diff --stat: add config option to limit graph width diff --stat: enable limiting of the graph part diff --stat: add a test for output with COLUMNS=40 diff --stat: use a maximum of 5/8 for the filename part merge --stat: use the full terminal width log --stat: use the full terminal width show --stat: use the full terminal width diff --stat: use the full terminal width diff --stat: tests for long filenames and big change counts
2012-03-06Merge branch 'maint-1.7.7' into maint-1.7.8Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
By Thomas Rast * maint-1.7.7: Document the --histogram diff option
2012-03-06Document the --histogram diff optionThomas Rast1-0/+3
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-01diff --stat: add config option to limit graph widthZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek1-7/+9
Config option diff.statGraphWidth=<width> is equivalent to --stat-graph-width=<width>, except that the config option is ignored by format-patch. For the graph-width limiting to be usable, it should happen 'automatically' once configured, hence the config option. Nevertheless, graph width limiting only makes sense when used on a wide terminal, so it should not influence the output of format-patch, which adheres to the 80-column standard. Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-01diff --stat: enable limiting of the graph partZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek1-0/+2
A new option --stat-graph-width=<width> can be used to limit the width of the graph part even is more space is available. Up to <width> columns will be used for the graph. If commits changing a lot of lines are displayed in a wide terminal window (200 or more columns), and the +- graph uses the full width, the output can be hard to comfortably scan with a horizontal movement of human eyes. Messages wrapped to about 80 columns would be interspersed with very long +- lines. It makes sense to limit the width of the graph part to a fixed value (e.g. 70 columns), even if more columns are available. Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-01diff --stat: use a maximum of 5/8 for the filename partZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek1-6/+8
The way that available columns are divided between the filename part and the graph part is modified to use as many columns as necessary for the filenames and the rest for the graph. If there isn't enough columns to print both the filename and the graph, at least 5/8 of available space is devoted to filenames. On a standard 80 column terminal, or if not connected to a terminal and using the default of 80 columns, this gives the same partition as before. The effect of this change is visible in the patch to the test vector in t4052; with a small change with long filename, it stops truncating the name part too short, and also allocates a bit more columns to the graph for larger changes. Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-08Sync with 1.7.7.3Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-08docs: don't mention --quiet or --exit-code in git-log(1)Jeff King1-0/+2
These are diff-options, but they don't actually make sense in the context of log. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-19Merge branch 'rs/diff-whole-function'Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
* rs/diff-whole-function: diff: add option to show whole functions as context xdiff: factor out get_func_line()
2011-10-10diff: add option to show whole functions as contextRené Scharfe1-0/+4
Add the option -W/--function-context to git diff. It is similar to the same option of git grep and expands the context of change hunks so that the whole surrounding function is shown. This "natural" context can allow changes to be understood better. Note: GNU patch doesn't like diffs generated with the new option; it seems to expect context lines to be the same before and after changes. git apply doesn't complain. This implementation has the same shortcoming as the one in grep, namely that there is no way to explicitly find the end of a function. That means that a few lines of extra context are shown, right up to the next recognized function begins. It's already useful in its current form, though. The function get_func_line() in xdiff/xemit.c is extended to work forward as well as backward to find post-context as well as pre-context. It returns the position of the first found matching line. The func_line parameter is made optional, as we don't need it for -W. The enhanced function is then used in xdl_emit_diff() to extend the context as needed. If the added context overlaps with the next change, it is merged into the current hunk. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-03diff: resurrect XDF_NEED_MINIMAL with --minimalJunio C Hamano1-0/+4
Earlier, 582aa00 (git diff too slow for a file, 2010-05-02) unconditionally dropped XDF_NEED_MINIMAL option from the internal xdiff invocation to help performance on pathological cases, while hinting that a follow-up patch could reintroduce it with "--minimal" option from the command line. Make it so. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-06Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano1-0/+11
* maint: docs: document --textconv diff option
2011-07-06docs: document --textconv diff optionJeff King1-0/+11
This has been there since textconv existed, but was never documented. There is some overlap with what's in gitattributes(5), but it's important to warn in both places that textconv diffs probably can't be applied. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-29Merge branch 'mg/diff-stat-count'Junio C Hamano1-1/+7
* mg/diff-stat-count: diff --stat-count: finishing touches diff-options.txt: describe --stat-{width,name-width,count} diff: introduce --stat-lines to limit the stat lines diff.c: omit hidden entries from namelen calculation with --stat
2011-06-22Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano1-4/+8
* maint: Documentation: git diff --check respects core.whitespace
2011-06-22Documentation: git diff --check respects core.whitespaceChristof Krüger1-4/+8
Fix documentation on "git diff --check" by adopting the description from "git apply --whitespace". Signed-off-by: Christof Krüger <git@christof-krueger.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-27diff-options.txt: describe --stat-{width,name-width,count}Michael J Gruber1-0/+3
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-27diff: introduce --stat-lines to limit the stat linesMichael J Gruber1-1/+4
Often one is interested in the full --stat output only for commits which change a few files, but not others, because larger restructuring gives a --stat which fills a few screens. Introduce a new option --stat-count=<count> which limits the --stat output to the first <count> lines, followed by a "..." line. It can also be given as the third parameter in --stat=<width>,<name-width>,<count>. Also, the unstuck form is supported analogous to the other two stat parameters. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-26Merge branch 'mg/diff-uiconfig-doc' into maintJunio C Hamano1-4/+11
* mg/diff-uiconfig-doc: config.txt,diff-options.txt: porcelain vs. plumbing for color.diff
2011-05-13Merge branch 'jh/dirstat-lines'Junio C Hamano1-12/+42
* jh/dirstat-lines: Mark dirstat error messages for translation Improve error handling when parsing dirstat parameters New --dirstat=lines mode, doing dirstat analysis based on diffstat Allow specifying --dirstat cut-off percentage as a floating point number Add config variable for specifying default --dirstat behavior Refactor --dirstat parsing; deprecate --cumulative and --dirstat-by-file Make --dirstat=0 output directories that contribute < 0.1% of changes Add several testcases for --dirstat and friends
2011-05-06Merge branch 'mg/diff-uiconfig-doc'Junio C Hamano1-4/+11
* mg/diff-uiconfig-doc: config.txt,diff-options.txt: porcelain vs. plumbing for color.diff
2011-05-06Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* maint: Remove duplicated "is a"
2011-05-05Remove duplicated "is a"João Britto1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: João Britto <jabcalves@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-29New --dirstat=lines mode, doing dirstat analysis based on diffstatJohan Herland1-0/+8
This patch adds an alternative implementation of show_dirstat(), called show_dirstat_by_line(), which uses the more expensive diffstat analysis (as opposed to show_dirstat()'s own (relatively inexpensive) analysis) to derive the numbers from which the --dirstat output is computed. The alternative implementation is controlled by the new "lines" parameter to the --dirstat option (or the diff.dirstat config variable). For binary files, the diffstat analysis counts bytes instead of lines, so to prevent binary files from dominating the dirstat results, the byte counts for binary files are divided by 64 before being compared to their textual/line-based counterparts. This is a stupid and ugly - but very cheap - heuristic. In linux-2.6.git, running the three different --dirstat modes: time git diff v2.6.20..v2.6.30 --dirstat=changes > /dev/null vs. time git diff v2.6.20..v2.6.30 --dirstat=lines > /dev/null vs. time git diff v2.6.20..v2.6.30 --dirstat=files > /dev/null yields the following average runtimes on my machine: - "changes" (default): ~6.0 s - "lines": ~9.6 s - "files": ~0.1 s So, as expected, there's a considerable performance hit (~60%) by going through the full diffstat analysis as compared to the default "changes" analysis (obviously, "files" is much faster than both). As such, the "lines" mode is probably only useful if you really need the --dirstat numbers to be consistent with the numbers returned from the other --*stat options. The patch also includes documentation and tests for the new dirstat mode. Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-29Add config variable for specifying default --dirstat behaviorJohan Herland1-0/+2
The new diff.dirstat config variable takes the same arguments as '--dirstat=<args>', and specifies the default arguments for --dirstat. The config is obviously overridden by --dirstat arguments passed on the command line. When not specified, the --dirstat defaults are 'changes,noncumulative,3'. The patch also adds several tests verifying the interaction between the diff.dirstat config variable, and the --dirstat command line option. Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-29Refactor --dirstat parsing; deprecate --cumulative and --dirstat-by-fileJohan Herland1-12/+32
Instead of having multiple interconnected dirstat-related options, teach the --dirstat option itself to accept all behavior modifiers as parameters. - Preserve the current --dirstat=<limit> (where <limit> is an integer specifying a cut-off percentage) - Add --dirstat=cumulative, replacing --cumulative - Add --dirstat=files, replacing --dirstat-by-file - Also add --dirstat=changes and --dirstat=noncumulative for specifying the current default behavior. These allow the user to reset other --dirstat parameters (e.g. 'cumulative' and 'files') occuring earlier on the command line. The deprecated options (--cumulative and --dirstat-by-file) are still functional, although they have been removed from the documentation. Allow multiple parameters to be separated by commas, e.g.: --dirstat=files,10,cumulative Update the documentation accordingly, and add testcases verifying the behavior of the new syntax. Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-28Merge branch 'jc/diff-irreversible-delete'Junio C Hamano1-0/+13
* jc/diff-irreversible-delete: git diff -D: omit the preimage of deletes
2011-04-27config.txt,diff-options.txt: porcelain vs. plumbing for color.diffMichael J Gruber1-4/+11
Reading the diff-family and config man pages one may think that the color.diff and color.ui settings apply to all diff commands. Make it clearer that they do not apply to the plumbing variants diff-{files,index,tree}. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-11Teach --dirstat not to completely ignore rearranged lines within a fileJohan Herland1-2/+2
Currently, the --dirstat analysis ignores when lines within a file are rearranged, because the "damage" calculated by show_dirstat() is 0. However, if the object name has changed, we already know that there is some damage, and it is unintuitive to claim there is _no_ damage. Teach show_dirstat() to assign a minimum amount of damage (== 1) to entries for which the analysis otherwise yields zero damage, to still represent that these files are changed, instead of saying that there is no change. Also, skip --dirstat analysis when the object names are the same (e.g. for a pure file rename). Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-11--dirstat: Describe non-obvious differences relative to --stat or regular diffJohan Herland1-0/+4
Also add a testcase documenting the current behavior. Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-02git diff -D: omit the preimage of deletesJunio C Hamano1-0/+13
When reviewing a patch while concentrating primarily on the text after then change, wading through pages of deleted text involves a cognitive burden. Introduce the -D option that omits the preimage text from the patch output for deleted files. When used with -B (represent total rewrite as a single wholesale deletion followed by a single wholesale addition), the preimage text is also omitted. To prevent such a patch from being applied by mistake, the output is designed not to be usable by "git apply" (or GNU "patch"); it is strictly for human consumption. It of course is possible to "apply" such a patch by hand, as a human can read the intention out of such a patch. It however is impossible to apply such a patch even manually in reverse, as the whole point of this option is to omit the information necessary to do so from the output. Initial request by Mart Sõmermaa, documentation and tests helped by Michael J Gruber. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-12-10diff: use "find" instead of "detect" as prefix for long forms of -M and -CYann Dirson1-3/+2
It is more consistent with existing --find-copies-harder; luckily "detect" variant has not appeared in any officially released version of git. Signed-off-by: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-29diff: add --detect-copies-harder as a synonym for --find-copies-harderKevin Ballard1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-17Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano1-14/+12
* maint: clean: remove redundant variable baselen Documentation/git-pull: clarify configuration Document that rev-list --graph triggers parent rewriting. clean: avoid quoting twice document sigchain api Keep together options controlling the behaviour of diffcore-rename. t3402: test "rebase -s<strategy> -X<opt>"
2010-11-16Keep together options controlling the behaviour of diffcore-rename.Yann Dirson1-14/+12
It makes little sense to have --diff-filter in the middle of them, and even spares an ifndef::git-format-patch. Signed-off-by: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-26Merge branch 'kb/merge-recursive-rename-threshold'Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
* kb/merge-recursive-rename-threshold: diff: add synonyms for -M, -C, -B merge-recursive: option to specify rename threshold Conflicts: Documentation/diff-options.txt Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
2010-10-21Sync with 1.7.3.2Junio C Hamano1-7/+7
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-08Fix odd markup in --diff-filter documentationŠtěpán Němec1-2/+2
Instead of using the regex-like bracket expression, use grouping to make it more consistent with other similar places. The brackets now have the same meaning as in other documentation (i.e., the argument is optional). Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> Mentored-and-Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-08Use angles for placeholders consistentlyŠtěpán Němec1-5/+5
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-29diff: add synonyms for -M, -C, -BKevin Ballard1-0/+3
Add new long-form options --detect-renames[=<n>], --detect-copies[=<n>], and --break-rewrites[=[<n>][/<m>]] as synonyms for the -M, -C, and -B options (respectively). Signed-off-by: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-31git log/diff: add -G<regexp> that greps in the patch textJunio C Hamano1-1/+5
Teach "-G<regexp>" that is similar to "-S<regexp> --pickaxe-regexp" to the "git diff" family of commands. This limits the diff queue to filepairs whose patch text actually has an added or a deleted line that matches the given regexp. Unlike "-S<regexp>", changing other parts of the line that has a substring that matches the given regexp IS counted as a change, as such a change would appear as one deletion followed by one addition in a patch text. Unlike -S (pickaxe) that is intended to be used to quickly detect a commit that changes the number of occurrences of hits between the preimage and the postimage to serve as a part of larger toolchain, this is meant to be used as the top-level Porcelain feature. The implementation unfortunately has to run "diff" twice if you are running "log" family of commands to produce patches in the final output (e.g. "git log -p" or "git format-patch"). I think we _could_ cache the result in-core if we wanted to, but that would require larger surgery to the diffcore machinery (i.e. adding an extra pointer in the filepair structure to keep a pointer to a strbuf around, stuff the textual diff to the strbuf inside diffgrep_consume(), and make use of it in later stages when it is available) and it may not be worth it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-18Merge branch 'jl/submodule-ignore-diff'Junio C Hamano1-1/+5
* jl/submodule-ignore-diff: Add tests for the diff.ignoreSubmodules config option Add the 'diff.ignoreSubmodules' config setting Submodules: Use "ignore" settings from .gitmodules too for diff and status Submodules: Add the new "ignore" config option for diff and status Conflicts: diff.c
2010-08-09Document -B<n>[/<m>], -M<n> and -C<n> variants of -B, -M and -CMatthieu Moy1-5/+30
These options take an optional argument, but this optional argument was not documented. Original patch by Matthieu Moy, but documentation for -B mostly copied from the explanations of Junio C Hamano. While we're there, fix a typo in a comment in diffcore.h. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-09Submodules: Use "ignore" settings from .gitmodules too for diff and statusJens Lehmann1-1/+1
The .gitmodules file is parsed for "submodule.<name>.ignore" entries before looking for them in .git/config. Thus settings found in .git/config will override those from .gitmodules, thereby allowing the local developer to ignore settings given by the remote side while also letting upstream set defaults for those users who don't have special needs. Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-09Submodules: Add the new "ignore" config option for diff and statusJens Lehmann1-1/+5
The new "ignore" config option controls the default behavior for "git status" and the diff family. It specifies under what circumstances they consider submodules as modified and can be set separately for each submodule. The command line option "--ignore-submodules=" has been extended to accept the new parameter "none" for both status and diff. Users that chose submodules to get rid of long work tree scanning times might want to set the "dirty" option for those submodules. This brings back the pre 1.7.0 behavior, where submodule work trees were never scanned for modifications. By using "--ignore-submodules=none" on the command line the status and diff commands can be told to do a full scan. This option can be set to the following values (which have the same name and meaning as for the "--ignore-submodules" option of status and diff): "all": All changes to the submodule will be ignored. "dirty": Only differences of the commit recorded in the superproject and the submodules HEAD will be considered modifications, all changes to the work tree of the submodule will be ignored. When using this value, the submodule will not be scanned for work tree changes at all, leading to a performance benefit on large submodules. "untracked": Only untracked files in the submodules work tree are ignored, a changed HEAD and/or modified files in the submodule will mark it as modified. "none" (which is the default): Either untracked or modified files in a submodules work tree or a difference between the subdmodules HEAD and the commit recorded in the superproject will make it show up as changed. This value is added as a new parameter for the "--ignore-submodules" option of the diff family and "git status" so the user can override the settings in the configuration. Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-30Merge branch 'jl/maint-diff-ignore-submodules'Junio C Hamano1-2/+8
* jl/maint-diff-ignore-submodules: t4027,4041: Use test -s to test for an empty file Add optional parameters to the diff option "--ignore-submodules" git diff: rename test that had a conflicting name
2010-06-13Merge branch 'jk/diff-m-doc'Junio C Hamano1-0/+7
* jk/diff-m-doc: docs: clarify meaning of -M for git-log
2010-06-11Add optional parameters to the diff option "--ignore-submodules"Jens Lehmann1-2/+8
In some use cases it is not desirable that the diff family considers submodules that only contain untracked content as dirty. This may happen e.g. when the submodule is not under the developers control and not all build generated files have been added to .gitignore by the upstream developers. Using the "untracked" parameter for the "--ignore-submodules" option disables checking for untracked content and lets git diff report them as changed only when they have new commits or modified content. Sometimes it is not wanted to have submodules show up as changed when they just contain changes to their work tree. An example for that are scripts which just want to check for submodule commits while ignoring any changes to the work tree. Also users having large submodules known not to change might want to use this option, as the - sometimes substantial - time it takes to scan the submodule work tree(s) is saved. Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-21Merge branch 'tr/word-diff'Junio C Hamano1-4/+36
* tr/word-diff: diff: add --word-diff option that generalizes --color-words Conflicts: diff.c
2010-05-18diff-options: make --patch a synonym for -pWill Palmer1-0/+1
Here we simply make --patch a synonym for -p, whose mnemonic was "patch" all along. Signed-off-by: Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-18docs: clarify meaning of -M for git-logJeff King1-0/+7
As an option to the "diff" family, it is fairly obvious what "detect renames" means. However, for revision traversal, the "-M" option is just included in the long list of options, with no indication that it is about showing renames in diffs versus following renames. Let's make it more explicit. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-04-18Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
* maint: Documentation: Describe other situations where -z affects git diff
2010-04-18Documentation: Describe other situations where -z affects git diffCharles Bailey1-2/+2
-z also alters the behaviour of --name-only and --name-status. Signed-off-by: Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>