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Antoine Pelisse
36617af7ed diff: add --ignore-blank-lines option
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>
2013-06-19 15:17:45 -07:00
Stefano Lattarini
41ccfdd9c9 Correct common spelling mistakes in comments and tests
Most of these were found using Lucas De Marchi's codespell tool.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-12 13:38:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0bc8bea2b4 Merge branch 'rs/xdiff-fast-hash-fix'
Fixes compilation issue on 32-bit in an earlier series.
2012-05-25 12:05:02 -07:00
René Scharfe
8072766cc6 xdiff: import new 32-bit version of count_masked_bytes()
Import the latest 32-bit implementation of count_masked_bytes() from
Linux (arch/x86/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h).  It's shorter and avoids
overflows and negative numbers.

This fixes test failures on 32-bit, where negative partial results had
been shifted right using the "wrong" method (logical shift right instead
of arithmetic short right).  The compiler is free to chose the method,
so it was only wrong in the sense that it didn't work as intended by us.

Reported-by: Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@sunbase.org>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-23 09:10:17 -07:00
René Scharfe
7e356a9794 xdiff: avoid more compiler warnings with XDL_FAST_HASH on 32-bit machines
Hide literals that can cause compiler warnings for 32-bit architectures in
expressions that evaluate to small numbers there.  Some compilers warn that
0x0001020304050608 won't fit into a 32-bit long, others that shifting right
by 56 bits clears a 32-bit value completely.

The correct values are calculated in the 64-bit case, which is all that matters
in this if-branch.

Reported-by: Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@sunbase.org>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Acked-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-23 09:10:03 -07:00
René Scharfe
9322ce21ee xdiff: avoid compiler warnings with XDL_FAST_HASH on 32-bit machines
Import macro REPEAT_BYTE from Linux (arch/x86/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h)
to avoid 64-bit integer literals, which cause some 32-bit compilers to
print warnings.

Reported-by: Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@sunbase.org>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-22 14:39:49 -07:00
René Scharfe
be89977543 xdiff: remove unused functions
The functions xdl_cha_first(), xdl_cha_next() and xdl_atol() are not used
by us.  While removing them increases the difference to the upstream
version of libxdiff, it only adds a bit to the more than 600 differing
lines in xutils.c (mmfile_t management was simplified significantly when
the library was imported initially).  Besides, if upstream modifies these
functions in the future, we won't need to think about importing those
changes, so in that sense it makes tracking modifications easier.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-09 14:13:05 -07:00
René Scharfe
3319e60633 xdiff: remove emit_func() and xdi_diff_hunks()
The functions are unused now, remove them.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-09 14:08:42 -07:00
René Scharfe
467d348c19 xdiff: add hunk_func()
Add a way to register a callback function that is gets passed the
start line and line count of each hunk of a diff.  Only standard
types are used.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-09 14:00:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4d1f0ef210 Merge branch 'tr/xdiff-fast-hash'
Use word-at-a-time comparison to find end of line or NUL (end of buffer),
borrowed from the linux-kernel discussion.

By Thomas Rast
* tr/xdiff-fast-hash:
  xdiff: choose XDL_FAST_HASH code on sizeof(long) instead of __WORDSIZE
  xdiff: load full words in the inner loop of xdl_hash_record
2012-05-02 13:54:58 -07:00
Thomas Rast
6f1af028ce xdiff: choose XDL_FAST_HASH code on sizeof(long) instead of __WORDSIZE
Darwin does not define __WORDSIZE, and compiles the 32-bit code path
on 64-bit systems, resulting in a totally broken git.

I could not find an alternative -- other than the platform symbols
(__x86_64__ etc.) -- that does the test in the preprocessor.  However,
we can also just test for the size of a 'long', which is what really
matters here.  Any compiler worth its salt will leave only the branch
relevant for its platform, and indeed on Linux/GCC the numbers don't
change:

 Test                                  tr/darwin-xdl-fast-hash   origin/next              origin/master
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 4000.1: log -3000 (baseline)          0.09(0.07+0.01)           0.09(0.07+0.01) -5.5%*   0.09(0.07+0.01) -4.1%
 4000.2: log --raw -3000 (tree-only)   0.47(0.41+0.05)           0.47(0.40+0.05) -0.5%    0.45(0.38+0.06) -3.5%.
 4000.3: log -p -3000 (Myers)          1.81(1.67+0.12)           1.81(1.67+0.13) +0.3%    1.99(1.84+0.12) +10.2%***
 4000.4: log -p -3000 --histogram      1.79(1.66+0.11)           1.80(1.67+0.11) +0.4%    1.96(1.82+0.10) +9.2%***
 4000.5: log -p -3000 --patience       2.17(2.02+0.13)           2.20(2.04+0.13) +1.3%.   2.33(2.18+0.13) +7.4%***
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Significance hints:  '.' 0.1  '*' 0.05  '**' 0.01  '***' 0.001

Noticed-by: Brian Gernhardt <brian@gernhardtsoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-01 12:19:06 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
86c340e082 Merge branch 'jc/diff-algo-cleanup'
Resurrects the preparatory clean-up patches from another topic that was
discarded, as this would give a saner foundation to build on diff.algo
configuration option series.

* jc/diff-algo-cleanup:
  xdiff: PATIENCE/HISTOGRAM are not independent option bits
  xdiff: remove XDL_PATCH_* macros
2012-04-15 22:51:15 -07:00
Thomas Rast
6942efcfa9 xdiff: load full words in the inner loop of xdl_hash_record
Redo the hashing loop in xdl_hash_record in a way that loads an entire
'long' at a time, using masking tricks to see when and where we found
the terminating '\n'.

I stole inspiration and code from the posts by Linus Torvalds around

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/2/452
  https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/5/6

His method reads the buffers in sizeof(long) increments, and may thus
overrun it by at most sizeof(long)-1 bytes before it sees the final
newline (or hits the buffer length check).  I considered padding out
all buffers by a suitable amount to "catch" the overrun, but

* this does not work for mmap()'d buffers: if you map 4096+8 bytes
  from a 4096 byte file, accessing the last 8 bytes results in a
  SIGBUS on my machine; and

* it would also be extremely ugly because it intrudes deep into the
  unpacking machinery.

So I adapted it to not read beyond the buffer at all.  Instead, it
reads the final partial word byte-by-byte and strings it together.
Then it can use the same logic as before to finish the hashing.

So far we enable this only on x86_64, where it provides nice speedup
for diff-related work:

  Test                                  origin/next      tr/xdiff-fast-hash
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  4000.1: log -3000 (baseline)          0.07(0.05+0.02)  0.08(0.06+0.02) +14.3%
  4000.2: log --raw -3000 (tree-only)   0.37(0.33+0.04)  0.37(0.32+0.04) +0.0%
  4000.3: log -p -3000 (Myers)          1.75(1.65+0.09)  1.60(1.49+0.10) -8.6%
  4000.4: log -p -3000 --histogram      1.73(1.62+0.09)  1.58(1.49+0.08) -8.7%
  4000.5: log -p -3000 --patience       2.11(2.00+0.10)  1.94(1.80+0.11) -8.1%

Perhaps other platforms could also benefit.  However it does NOT work
on big-endian systems!

[jc: minimum style and compilation fixes]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-09 17:03:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
307ab20b33 xdiff: PATIENCE/HISTOGRAM are not independent option bits
Because the default Myers, patience and histogram algorithms cannot be in
effect at the same time, XDL_PATIENCE_DIFF and XDL_HISTOGRAM_DIFF are not
independent bits.  Instead of wasting one bit per algorithm, define a few
macros to access the few bits they occupy and update the code that access
them.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-19 15:36:55 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e5b06629de xdiff: remove XDL_PATCH_* macros
These are not used anywhere in our codebase, and the bit assignment
definition is merely confusing.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-19 14:32:25 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
86e15ff4fe Merge branch 'rs/diff-postimage-in-context'
* rs/diff-postimage-in-context:
  xdiff: print post-image for common records instead of pre-image
2012-01-29 13:18:55 -08:00
René Scharfe
baf5aaa333 xdiff: print post-image for common records instead of pre-image
Normally it doesn't matter if we show the pre-image or th post-image
for the common parts of a diff because they are the same.  If
white-space changes are ignored they can differ, though.  The
new text after applying the diff is more interesting in that case,
so show that instead of the old contents.

Note: GNU diff shows the pre-image.

Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-06 11:10:05 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9b55aa03da Merge branch 'rs/diff-whole-function'
* rs/diff-whole-function:
  diff: add option to show whole functions as context
  xdiff: factor out get_func_line()
2011-10-19 10:49:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7a63a920fd Merge branch 'rs/diff-cleanup-records-fix'
* rs/diff-cleanup-records-fix:
  diff: resurrect XDF_NEED_MINIMAL with --minimal
  Revert removal of multi-match discard heuristic in 27af01
2011-10-13 19:03:22 -07:00
René Scharfe
14937c2c06 diff: add option to show whole functions as context
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>
2011-10-10 12:05:07 -07:00
René Scharfe
f99f4b3667 xdiff: factor out get_func_line()
Move the code to search for a function line to be shown in the hunk
header into its own function and to make returning the length-limited
result string easier, introduce struct func_line.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-10 11:59:30 -07:00
René Scharfe
c5aa90682f Revert removal of multi-match discard heuristic in 27af01
27af01d (xdiff/xprepare: improve O(n*m) performance in
xdl_cleanup_records(), 2011-08-17) was supposed to be a performance
boost only. However, it unexpectedly changed the behaviour of diff.

Revert a part of 27af01d that removes logic that mark lines as
"multi-match" (ie. dis[i] == 2). This was preventing the multi-match
discard heuristic (performed in xdl_cleanup_records() and
xdl_clean_mmatch()) from executing.

Reported-by: Alexander Pepper <pepper@inf.fu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-09-26 11:38:14 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b648557ef1 Merge branch 'rc/histogram-diff'
* rc/histogram-diff:
  xdiff/xprepare: initialise xdlclassifier_t cf in xdl_prepare_env()
2011-09-06 11:42:58 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
2738bc3f09 xdiff/xprepare: initialise xdlclassifier_t cf in xdl_prepare_env()
Ensure that the xdl_free_classifier() call on xdlclassifier_t cf is safe
even if xdl_init_classifier() isn't called. This may occur in the case
where diff is run with --histogram and a call to, say, xdl_prepare_ctx()
fails.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-31 10:03:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b14b969ab9 Merge branch 'rc/histogram-diff' into HEAD
* rc/histogram-diff:
  xdiff/xhistogram: drop need for additional variable
  xdiff/xhistogram: rely on xdl_trim_ends()
  xdiff/xhistogram: rework handling of recursed results
  xdiff: do away with xdl_mmfile_next()
  Make test number unique
  xdiff/xprepare: use a smaller sample size for histogram diff
  xdiff/xprepare: skip classification
  teach --histogram to diff
  t4033-diff-patience: factor out tests
  xdiff/xpatience: factor out fall-back-diff function
  xdiff/xprepare: refactor abort cleanups
  xdiff/xprepare: use memset()

Conflicts:
	xdiff/xprepare.c
2011-08-17 17:17:16 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
27af01d552 xdiff/xprepare: improve O(n*m) performance in xdl_cleanup_records()
In xdl_cleanup_records(), we see O(n*m) performance, where n is the
number of records from xdf->dstart to xdf->dend, and m is the size of a
bucket in xdf->rhash (<= by mlim).

Here, we improve this to O(n) by pre-computing nm (in rcrec->len(1|2))
in xdl_classify_record().

Reported-by: Marat Radchenko <marat@slonopotamus.org>
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-17 17:15:05 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
6486a84cb8 xdiff/xhistogram: drop need for additional variable
Having an additional variable (ptr) instead of changing line(1|2) and
count(1|2) was for debugging purposes.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-08 13:00:17 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
43ca7530df xdiff/xhistogram: rely on xdl_trim_ends()
Do away with reduce_common_start_end() and use xdf->dstart and xdf->dend
set by xdl_trim_ends() that similarly tells us where the first unmatched
line from the start and end occurs.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-08 13:00:17 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
19f7a9c577 xdiff/xhistogram: rework handling of recursed results
Previously we were over-complicating matters by trying to combine the
recursed results. Now, terminate immediately if a recursive call failed
and return its result.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-08 13:00:17 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
739864b1ff xdiff: do away with xdl_mmfile_next()
Given our simple mmfile structure, xdl_mmfile_next() calls are
redundant. Do away with calls to them.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-03 10:15:16 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
86abba8015 xdiff/xprepare: use a smaller sample size for histogram diff
For histogram diff, we can afford a smaller sample size and thus a
poorer estimate of the number of lines, as the hash table (rhash) won't
be filled up/grown. This is safe as the final count of lines (xdf.nrecs)
will be updated correctly anyway by xdl_prepare_ctx().

This gives us a small boost in performance.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-12 09:30:00 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
9f37c27593 xdiff/xprepare: skip classification
xdiff performs "classification" of records (xdl_classify_record()),
replacing hashes (xrecord_t.ha) with a unique identifier of the
record/line and building a hash table (xrecord_t.rhash) of records. This
is then used to "cleanup" records (xdl_cleanup_records()).

We don't need any of that in histogram diff, so we omit calls to these
functions. We also skip allocating memory to the hash table, rhash, as
it is no longer used.

This gives us a small boost in performance.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-12 09:29:39 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
8c912eea94 teach --histogram to diff
Port JGit's HistogramDiff algorithm over to C. Rough numbers (TODO) show
that it is faster than its --patience cousin, as well as the default
Meyers algorithm.

The implementation has been reworked to use structs and pointers,
instead of bitmasks, thus doing away with JGit's 2^28 line limit.

We also use xdiff's default hash table implementation (xdl_hash_bits()
with XDL_HASHLONG()) for convenience.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-12 09:29:20 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
1d26b252f1 xdiff/xpatience: factor out fall-back-diff function
This is in preparation for the histogram diff algorithm, which will also
re-use much of the code to call the default Meyers diff algorithm.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-07 09:41:24 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
159607a8f1 xdiff/xprepare: refactor abort cleanups
Group free()'s that are called when a malloc() fails in
xdl_prepare_ctx(), making for more readable code.

Also add a free() on ha, in case future git hackers add allocs after the
ha malloc.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-07 09:37:21 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
452f4fa51e xdiff/xprepare: use memset()
Use memset() instead of a for loop to initialize. This could give a
performance advantage.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-07 09:36:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8cf666c9ee Merge branch 'cb/diff-fname-optim'
* cb/diff-fname-optim:
  diff: avoid repeated scanning while looking for funcname
  do not search functions for patch ID
  add rebase patch id tests
2010-11-17 14:59:16 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
349362cc20 xdiff: cast arguments for ctype functions to unsigned char
The ctype functions isspace(), isalnum(), et al take an integer
argument representing an unsigned character, or -1 for EOF.  On
platforms with a signed char, it is unsafe to pass a char to them
without casting it to unsigned char first.

Most of git is already shielded against this by the ctype
implementation in git-compat-util.h, but xdiff, which uses libc
ctype.h, ought to be fixed.

Noticed-by: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents-Montreal.ORG>
Reported-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-06 10:46:45 -07:00
René Scharfe
c099789bb0 diff: avoid repeated scanning while looking for funcname
For each hunk, xdl_find_func searches the preimage for a function name
until the beginning of the file. If the file does not contain any
function names, this search has complexity O(n^2) in the number of
hunks n.

Instead, inline xdl_find_func() and keep track of up to which line we
have scanned already and the contents of the last funcname line that
we have found.

Noticed and a different approach proposed by Clemens Buchacher.
This alternative solution was done by René Scharfe.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-30 11:43:07 -07:00
Dylan Reid
b4cf0f1784 xdiff: optimise for no whitespace difference when ignoring whitespace.
In xdl_recmatch, do the memcmp to check if the two lines are equal before
checking if whitespace flags are set.  If the lines are identical, then
there is no need to check if they differ only in whitespace.
This makes the common case (there is no whitespace difference) faster.
It costs the case where lines are the same length and contain
whitespace differences, but the common case is more than 20% faster.

Signed-off-by: Dylan Reid <dgreid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-05 23:27:41 -07:00
Alexey Mahotkin
c8c073c420 xdiff/xmerge.c: use memset() instead of explicit for-loop
memset() is heavily optimized, and resulting assembler code
is about 150 lines less for that file.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Mahotkin <squadette@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-01 11:11:11 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
a4b5e91c49 xdl_merge(): move file1 and file2 labels to xmparam structure
The labels for the three participants in a potential conflict are all
optional arguments for the xdiff merge routine; if they are NULL, then
xdl_merge() can cope by omitting the labels from its output.  Move
them to the xmparam structure to allow new callers to save some
keystrokes where they are not needed.

This also has the virtue of making the xdiff merge interface more
similar to merge_trees, which might make it easier to learn.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-20 20:36:10 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
8a161433a0 xdl_merge(): add optional ancestor label to diff3-style output
The ‘git checkout --conflict=diff3’ command can be used to
present conflicts hunks including text from the common ancestor:

	<<<<<<< ours
	ourside
	|||||||
	original
	=======
	theirside
	>>>>>>> theirs

The added information is helpful for resolving merges by hand, and
merge tools can usually grok it because it is very similar to the
output from diff3 -m.

A subtle change can help more tools to understand the output.  ‘diff3’
includes the name of the merge base on the ||||||| line of the output,
and some tools misparse the conflict hunks without it.  Add a new
xmp->ancestor parameter to xdl_merge() for use with conflict style
XDL_MERGE_DIFF3 as a label on the ||||||| line for any conflict hunks.

If xmp->ancestor is NULL, the output format is unchanged.  Thus, this
change only provides unexposed plumbing for the new feature; it does
not affect the outward behavior of git.

Requested-by: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Bert Wesarg <Bert.Wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-20 20:36:10 -07:00
Bert Wesarg
560119b9ab refactor merge flags into xmparam_t
Include the merge level, favor, and style flags into the xmparam_t struct.
This removes the bit twiddling with these three values into the one flags
parameter.

Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-02 11:51:48 -08:00
Bert Wesarg
cd1d61c44f make union merge an xdl merge favor
The current union merge driver is implemented as an post process.  But the
xdl_merge code is quite capable to produce the result by itself.  Therefore
move it there.

Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-02 11:43:40 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
06dbc1ea57 Merge branch 'jc/conflict-marker-size'
* jc/conflict-marker-size:
  rerere: honor conflict-marker-size attribute
  rerere: prepare for customizable conflict marker length
  conflict-marker-size: new attribute
  rerere: use ll_merge() instead of using xdl_merge()
  merge-tree: use ll_merge() not xdl_merge()
  xdl_merge(): allow passing down marker_size in xmparam_t
  xdl_merge(): introduce xmparam_t for merge specific parameters
  git_attr(): fix function signature

Conflicts:
	builtin-merge-file.c
	ll-merge.c
	xdiff/xdiff.h
	xdiff/xmerge.c
2010-01-20 20:28:51 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9914cf4689 xdl_merge(): allow passing down marker_size in xmparam_t
This allows the callers of xdl_merge() to pass marker_size (defaults to 7)
in xmparam_t argument, to use conflict markers of non-default length.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-16 23:45:29 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
00f8f97d30 xdl_merge(): introduce xmparam_t for merge specific parameters
So far we have only needed to be able to pass an option that is generic to
xdiff family of functions to this function.  Extend the interface so that
we can give it merge specific parameters.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-16 21:33:13 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
73eb40eeaa git-merge-file --ours, --theirs
Sometimes people want their conflicting merges autoresolved by
favouring upstream changes.  The standard answer they are given is
to run "git diff --name-only | xargs git checkout MERGE_HEAD --" in
such a case.  This is to accept automerge results for the paths that
are fully resolved automatically, while taking their version of the
file in full for paths that have conflicts.

This is problematic on two counts.

One is that this is not exactly what these people want.  It discards
all changes they did on their branch for any paths that conflicted.
They usually want to salvage as much automerge result as possible in
a conflicted file, and want to take the upstream change only in the
conflicted part.

This patch teaches two new modes of operation to the lowest-lever
merge machinery, xdl_merge().  Instead of leaving the conflicted
lines from both sides enclosed in <<<, ===, and >>> markers, the
conflicts are resolved favouring our side or their side of changes.

A larger problem is that this tends to encourage a bad workflow by
allowing people to record such a mixed up half-merged result as a
full commit without auditing.  This commit does not tackle this
issue at all.  In git, we usually give long enough rope to users
with strange wishes as long as the risky features are not enabled by
default, and this is such a risky feature.

Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-29 23:11:46 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d34eca0392 Merge branch 'tf/diff-whitespace-incomplete-line'
* tf/diff-whitespace-incomplete-line:
  xutils: Fix xdl_recmatch() on incomplete lines
  xutils: Fix hashing an incomplete line with whitespaces at the end
2009-08-31 22:08:57 -07:00