git-blame.el: Autoupdate while editing

This adds the support for automatically updating the buffer while editing.
A configuration variable git-blame-autoupdate controls whether this should
be enabled or not.

Signed-off-by: David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

contrib/emacs/git-blame.el

@@ -102,6 +102,9 @@
 
 (defvar git-blame-ancient-color "dark green")
 
+(defvar git-blame-autoupdate t
+  "*Automatically update the blame display while editing")
+
 (defvar git-blame-proc nil
   "The running git-blame process")
 (make-variable-buffer-local 'git-blame-proc)
@@ -114,6 +117,14 @@
   "A cache of git-blame information for the current buffer")
 (make-variable-buffer-local 'git-blame-cache)
 
+(defvar git-blame-idle-timer nil
+  "An idle timer that updates the blame")
+(make-variable-buffer-local 'git-blame-cache)
+
+(defvar git-blame-update-queue nil
+  "A queue of update requests")
+(make-variable-buffer-local 'git-blame-update-queue)
+
 (defvar git-blame-mode nil)
 (make-variable-buffer-local 'git-blame-mode)
 (unless (assq 'git-blame-mode minor-mode-alist)
@@ -129,6 +140,9 @@
       (setq git-blame-mode (eq arg 1))
     (setq git-blame-mode (not git-blame-mode)))
   (make-local-variable 'git-blame-colors)
+  (if git-blame-autoupdate
+      (add-hook 'after-change-functions 'git-blame-after-change nil t)
+    (remove-hook 'after-change-functions 'git-blame-after-change t))
   (git-blame-cleanup)
   (if git-blame-mode
       (progn
@@ -137,7 +151,8 @@
               (setq git-blame-colors git-blame-dark-colors)
             (setq git-blame-colors git-blame-light-colors)))
         (setq git-blame-cache (make-hash-table :test 'equal))
-        (git-blame-run))))
+        (git-blame-run))
+    (cancel-timer git-blame-idle-timer)))
 
 ;;;###autoload
 (defun git-reblame ()
@@ -148,18 +163,24 @@
   (git-blame-cleanup)
   (git-blame-run))
 
-(defun git-blame-run ()
+(defun git-blame-run (&optional startline endline)
   (if git-blame-proc
       ;; Should maybe queue up a new run here
       (message "Already running git blame")
     (let ((display-buf (current-buffer))
           (blame-buf (get-buffer-create
-                      (concat " git blame for " (buffer-name)))))
+                      (concat " git blame for " (buffer-name))))
+          (args '("--incremental" "--contents" "-")))
+      (if startline
+          (setq args (append args
+                             (list "-L" (format "%d,%d" startline endline)))))
+      (setq args (append args
+                         (list (file-name-nondirectory buffer-file-name))))
       (setq git-blame-proc
-            (start-process "git-blame" blame-buf
-                           "git" "blame"
-                           "--incremental" "--contents" "-"
-                           (file-name-nondirectory buffer-file-name)))
+            (apply 'start-process
+                   "git-blame" blame-buf
+                   "git" "blame"
+                   args))
       (with-current-buffer blame-buf
         (erase-buffer)
         (make-local-variable 'git-blame-file)
@@ -183,10 +204,28 @@
     (setq git-blame-overlays nil)
     (remove-git-blame-text-properties (point-min) (point-max)))
 
+(defun git-blame-update-region (start end)
+  "Rerun blame to get updates between START and END"
+  (let ((overlays (overlays-in start end)))
+    (while overlays
+      (let ((overlay (pop overlays)))
+        (if (< (overlay-start overlay) start)
+            (setq start (overlay-start overlay)))
+        (if (> (overlay-end overlay) end)
+            (setq end (overlay-end overlay)))
+        (setq git-blame-overlays (delete overlay git-blame-overlays))
+        (delete-overlay overlay))))
+  (remove-git-blame-text-properties start end)
+  ;; We can be sure that start and end are at line breaks
+  (git-blame-run (1+ (count-lines (point-min) start))
+                 (count-lines (point-min) end)))
+
 (defun git-blame-sentinel (proc status)
   (with-current-buffer (process-buffer proc)
     (with-current-buffer git-blame-file
-      (setq git-blame-proc nil)))
+      (setq git-blame-proc nil)
+      (if git-blame-update-queue
+          (git-blame-delayed-update))))
   ;;(kill-buffer (process-buffer proc))
   ;;(message "git blame finished")
   )
@@ -241,7 +280,8 @@
   (save-excursion
     (set-buffer git-blame-file)
     (let ((info (gethash hash git-blame-cache))
-          (inhibit-point-motion-hooks t))
+          (inhibit-point-motion-hooks t)
+          (inhibit-modification-hooks t))
       (when (not info)
         (let ((color (pop git-blame-colors)))
           (unless color
@@ -298,6 +338,43 @@
       (message "%s" (nth 4 info))
       (setq git-blame-last-identification info))))
 
+;; (defun git-blame-after-save ()
+;;   (when git-blame-mode
+;;     (git-blame-cleanup)
+;;     (git-blame-run)))
+;; (add-hook 'after-save-hook 'git-blame-after-save)
+
+(defun git-blame-after-change (start end length)
+  (when git-blame-mode
+    (git-blame-enq-update start end)))
+
+(defvar git-blame-last-update nil)
+(make-variable-buffer-local 'git-blame-last-update)
+(defun git-blame-enq-update (start end)
+  "Mark the region between START and END as needing blame update"
+  ;; Try to be smart and avoid multiple callouts for sequential
+  ;; editing
+  (cond ((and git-blame-last-update
+              (= start (cdr git-blame-last-update)))
+         (setcdr git-blame-last-update end))
+        ((and git-blame-last-update
+              (= end (car git-blame-last-update)))
+         (setcar git-blame-last-update start))
+        (t
+         (setq git-blame-last-update (cons start end))
+         (setq git-blame-update-queue (nconc git-blame-update-queue
+                                             (list git-blame-last-update)))))
+  (unless (or git-blame-proc git-blame-idle-timer)
+    (setq git-blame-idle-timer
+          (run-with-idle-timer 0.5 nil 'git-blame-delayed-update))))
+
+(defun git-blame-delayed-update ()
+  (setq git-blame-idle-timer nil)
+  (if git-blame-update-queue
+      (let ((first (pop git-blame-update-queue))
+            (inhibit-point-motion-hooks t))
+        (git-blame-update-region (car first) (cdr first)))))
+
 (provide 'git-blame)
 
 ;;; git-blame.el ends here