The lifecycle management of diff queues is somewhat confusing:
- For most of the part this can be attributed to `DIFF_QUEUE_CLEAR()`,
which does not release any memory but rather initializes the queue,
only. This is in contrast to our common naming schema, where
"clearing" means that we release underlying memory and then
re-initialize the data structure such that it is ready to use.
- A second offender is `diff_free_queue()`, which does not free the
queue structure itself. It is rather a release-style function.
Refactor the code to make things less confusing. `DIFF_QUEUE_CLEAR()` is
replaced by `DIFF_QUEUE_INIT` and `diff_queue_init()`, while
`diff_free_queue()` is replaced by `diff_queue_release()`. While on it,
adapt callsites where we call `DIFF_QUEUE_CLEAR()` with the intent to
release underlying memory to instead call `diff_queue_clear()` to fix
memory leaks.
This memory leak is exposed by t4211, but plugging it alone does not
make the whole test suite pass.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
