git/builtin/diff.c, branch gitk-resize-error

diff: enable and test the sparse index

2021-12-06T17:55:06Z

Enable the sparse index within the 'git diff' command. Its implementation already safely integrates with the sparse index because it shares code with the 'git status' and 'git checkout' commands that were already integrated. For more details see: d76723ee53 (status: use sparse-index throughout, 2021-07-14) 1ba5f45132 (checkout: stop expanding sparse indexes, 2021-06-29) The most interesting thing to do is to add tests that verify that 'git diff' behaves correctly when the sparse index is enabled. These cases are: 1. The index is not expanded for 'diff' and 'diff --staged' 2. 'diff' and 'diff --staged' behave the same in full checkout, sparse checkout, and sparse index repositories in the following partially-staged scenarios (i.e. the index, HEAD, and working directory differ at a given path): 1. Path is within sparse-checkout cone 2. Path is outside sparse-checkout cone 3. A merge conflict exists for paths outside sparse-checkout cone The `p2000` tests demonstrate a ~44% execution time reduction for 'git diff' and a ~86% execution time reduction for 'git diff --staged' using a sparse index: Test before after ------------------------------------------------------------- 2000.30: git diff (full-v3) 0.33 0.34 +3.0% 2000.31: git diff (full-v4) 0.33 0.35 +6.1% 2000.32: git diff (sparse-v3) 0.53 0.31 -41.5% 2000.33: git diff (sparse-v4) 0.54 0.29 -46.3% 2000.34: git diff --cached (full-v3) 0.07 0.07 +0.0% 2000.35: git diff --cached (full-v4) 0.07 0.08 +14.3% 2000.36: git diff --cached (sparse-v3) 0.28 0.04 -85.7% 2000.37: git diff --cached (sparse-v4) 0.23 0.03 -87.0% Co-authored-by: Derrick Stolee Signed-off-by: Lessley Dennington Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'dl/diff-merge-base'

2021-07-28T20:17:59Z

"git diff --merge-base" documentation has been updated. * dl/diff-merge-base: git-diff: fix missing --merge-base docs

git-diff: fix missing --merge-base docs

2021-07-12T20:55:29Z

When `git diff --merge-base` was introduced at around Git 2.30, the documentation included a few errors. In the example given for `git diff --cached --merge-base`, the `--cached` flag was omitted for the `--merge-base` example. Add the missing flag. In the `git diff ` case, we failed to mention that `--merge-base` is an available option. Give the usage of `--merge-base` as an option there. Finally, there are two errors in the usage of `git diff`. Firstly, we do not mention `--merge-base` in the `git diff --cached` case. Mention it so that it's consistent with the documentation. Secondly, we put the `[--merge-base]` in between `` and `[...]`. Move the `[--merge-base]` so that it's beside `[]` which is a more logical grouping. Signed-off-by: Denton Liu Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

hash: provide per-algorithm null OIDs

2021-04-27T07:31:39Z

Up until recently, object IDs did not have an algorithm member, only a hash. Consequently, it was possible to share one null (all-zeros) object ID among all hash algorithms. Now that we're going to be handling objects from multiple hash algorithms, it's important to make sure that all object IDs have a correct algorithm field. Introduce a per-algorithm null OID, and add it to struct hash_algo. Introduce a wrapper function as well, and use it everywhere we used to use the null_oid constant. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'jc/diffcore-rotate'

2021-02-26T00:43:30Z

"git {diff,log} --{skip,rotate}-to=" allows the user to discard diff output for early paths or move them to the end of the output. * jc/diffcore-rotate: diff: --{rotate,skip}-to=

diff: --{rotate,skip}-to=

2021-02-16T17:30:42Z

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

Merge branch 'tb/precompose-prefix-too'

2021-02-12T22:21:04Z

When commands are started from a subdirectory, they may have to compare the path to the subdirectory (called prefix and found out from $(pwd)) with the tracked paths. On macOS, $(pwd) and readdir() yield decomposed path, while the tracked paths are usually normalized to the precomposed form, causing mismatch. This has been fixed by taking the same approach used to normalize the command line arguments. * tb/precompose-prefix-too: MacOS: precompose_argv_prefix()

Merge branch 'so/log-diff-merge'

2021-02-06T00:40:44Z

"git log" learned a new "--diff-merges=" 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 ...

MacOS: precompose_argv_prefix()

2021-02-03T22:09:37Z

The following sequence leads to a "BUG" assertion running under MacOS: DIR=git-test-restore-p Adiarnfd=$(printf 'A\314\210') DIRNAME=xx${Adiarnfd}yy mkdir $DIR && cd $DIR && git init && mkdir $DIRNAME && cd $DIRNAME && echo "Initial" >file && git add file && echo "One more line" >>file && echo y | git restore -p . Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/git-test-restore-p/.git/ BUG: pathspec.c:495: error initializing pathspec_item Cannot close git diff-index --cached --numstat [snip] The command `git restore` is run from a directory inside a Git repo. Git needs to split the $CWD into 2 parts: The path to the repo and "the rest", if any. "The rest" becomes a "prefix" later used inside the pathspec code. As an example, "/path/to/repo/dir-inside-repå" would determine "/path/to/repo" as the root of the repo, the place where the configuration file .git/config is found. The rest becomes the prefix ("dir-inside-repå"), from where the pathspec machinery expands the ".", more about this later. If there is a decomposed form, (making the decomposing visible like this), "dir-inside-rep°a" doesn't match "dir-inside-repå". Git commands need to: (a) read the configuration variable "core.precomposeunicode" (b) precocompose argv[] (c) precompose the prefix, if there was any The first commit, 76759c7dff53 "git on Mac OS and precomposed unicode" addressed (a) and (b). The call to precompose_argv() was added into parse-options.c, because that seemed to be a good place when the patch was written. Commands that don't use parse-options need to do (a) and (b) themselfs. The commands `diff-files`, `diff-index`, `diff-tree` and `diff` learned (a) and (b) in commit 90a78b83e0b8 "diff: run arguments through precompose_argv" Branch names (or refs in general) using decomposed code points resulting in decomposed file names had been fixed in commit 8e712ef6fc97 "Honor core.precomposeUnicode in more places" The bug report from above shows 2 things: - more commands need to handle precomposed unicode - (c) should be implemented for all commands using pathspecs Solution: precompose_argv() now handles the prefix (if needed), and is renamed into precompose_argv_prefix(). Inside this function the config variable core.precomposeunicode is read into the global variable precomposed_unicode, as before. This reading is skipped if precomposed_unicode had been read before. The original patch for preocomposed unicode, 76759c7dff53, placed precompose_argv() into parse-options.c Now add it into git.c::run_builtin() as well. Existing precompose calls in diff-files.c and others may become redundant, and if we audit the callflows that reach these places to make sure that they can never be reached without going through the new call added to run_builtin(), we might be able to remove these existing ones. But in this commit, we do not bother to do so and leave these precompose callsites as they are. Because precompose() is idempotent and can be called on an already precomposed string safely, this is safer than removing existing calls without fully vetting the callflows. There is certainly room for cleanups - this change intends to be a bug fix. Cleanups needs more tests in e.g. t/t3910-mac-os-precompose.sh, and should be done in future commits. [1] git-bugreport-2021-01-06-1209.txt (git can't deal with special characters) [2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/A102844A-9501-4A86-854D-E3B387D378AA@icloud.com/ Reported-by: Daniel Troger Helped-By: Philippe Blain Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

diff-merges: new function diff_merges_set_dense_combined_if_unset()

2020-12-21T21:47:31Z

Call it where given functionality is needed instead of direct checking/tweaking of diff merges related fields. Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano