When a commit changes a path P that used to be a file to a directory
and creates a new path P/X in it, "git show" would say that file P
was removed and file P/X was created for such a commit.
However, if we compare two directories, D1 and D2, where D1 has a
file D1/P in it and D2 has a directory D2/P under which there is a
file D2/P/X, and ask "git diff --no-index D1 D2" to show their
differences, we simply get a refusal "file/directory conflict".
Surely, that may be what GNU diff does, but we can do better and it
is easy to do so.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git diff --no-index" was supposed to be a poor-man's approach to
allow using Git diff goodies outside of a Git repository, without
having to patch mainstream diff implementations.
Unlike a POSIX diff that treats "diff D F" (or "diff F D") as a
request to compare D/F and F (or F and D/F) when D is a directory
and F is a file, however, we did not accept such a command line and
instead barfed with "file/directory conflict".
Imitate what POSIX diff does and append the basename of the file
after the name of the directory before comparing.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"diff --no-index -Mq a b" fell into an infinite loop.
* jc/fix-diff-no-index-diff-opt-parse:
diff-no-index: correctly diagnose error return from diff_opt_parse()
diff_opt_parse() returns the number of options parsed, or often
returns error() which is defined to return -1. Yes, return value of
0 is "I did not process that option at all", which should cause the
caller to say that, but negative return should not be forgotten.
This bug caused "diff --no-index" to infinitely show the same error
message because the returned value was used to decrement the loop
control variable, e.g.
$ git diff --no-index --color=words a b
error: option `color' expects "always", "auto", or "never"
error: option `color' expects "always", "auto", or "never"
...
Instead, make it act like so:
$ git diff --no-index --color=words a b
error: option `color' expects "always", "auto", or "never"
fatal: invalid diff option/value: --color=words
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the next patch, we will replace a manual checking of "." or ".."
with a call to is_dot_or_dotdot() defined in dir.h. The private
function read_directory() defined in this file will conflict with
the global function declared there when we do so.
As a preparatory step, rename the private read_directory() to avoid
the name collision.
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Bourn <ba.bourn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently the --no-index option is parsed in diff_no_index(). Move the
detection if a no-index diff should be executed to builtin/diff.c, where
we can use it for executing diff_no_index() conditionally. This will
also allow us to execute other operations conditionally, which will be
done in the next patch.
There are no functional changes.
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the user types "git diff" outside a working tree, thinking he
is inside one, the current error message that is a single-liner
"usage: git diff --no-index <path> <path>" may not be sufficient to
make him realize the mistake. Add "Not a git repository" to the
error message when we fell into the "--no-index" mode without an
explicit command line option to instruct us to do so.
* dw/diff-no-index-doc:
diff --no-index: describe in a separate paragraph
diff --no-index: clarify operation when not inside a repository
Teach "git diff --diff-filter" to express "I do not want to see
these classes of changes" more directly by listing only the
unwanted ones in lowercase (e.g. "--diff-filter=d" will show
everything but deletion) and deprecate "diff-files -q" which did
the same thing as "--diff-filter=d".
* jc/diff-filter-negation:
diff: deprecate -q option to diff-files
diff: allow lowercase letter to specify what change class to exclude
diff: reject unknown change class given to --diff-filter
diff: preparse --diff-filter string argument
diff: factor out match_filter()
diff: pass the whole diff_options to diffcore_apply_filter()
Clarify documentation for "diff --no-index". State that when not
inside a repository, --no-index is implied and two arguments are
mandatory.
Clarify error message from diff-no-index to inform user that CWD is
not inside a repository and thus two arguments are mandatory.
Signed-off-by: Dale Worley <worley@ariadne.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This was inherited from "show-diff -q" that was invented to tell
comparison between the index and the working tree to ignore only
removals in 2005.
These days, it is spelled as "--diff-filter=d".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reimplements the ancient "-q" option to "git diff-files" that
was inherited from "show-diff -q" in terms of "--diff-filter=d". We
will be deprecating the "-q" option, so let's issue a warning when
we do so.
Incidentally this also tentatively fixes "git diff --no-index" to
honor "-q" and hide deletions; the use will get the same warning.
We should remove the support for "-q" in a future version but it is
not that urgent.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Throughout git, it is assumed that the WIN32 preprocessor symbol is
defined on native Windows setups (mingw and msvc) and not on Cygwin.
On Cygwin, most of the time git can pretend this is just another Unix
machine, and Windows-specific magic is generally counterproductive.
Unfortunately Cygwin *does* define the WIN32 symbol in some headers.
Best to rely on a new git-specific symbol GIT_WINDOWS_NATIVE instead,
defined as follows:
#if defined(WIN32) && !defined(__CYGWIN__)
# define GIT_WINDOWS_NATIVE
#endif
After this change, it should be possible to drop the
CYGWIN_V15_WIN32API setting without any negative effect.
[rj: %s/WINDOWS_NATIVE/GIT_WINDOWS_NATIVE/g ]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We do not want a link to 0{40} object stored anywhere in our objects.
* jk/maint-null-in-trees:
fsck: detect null sha1 in tree entries
do not write null sha1s to on-disk index
diff: do not use null sha1 as a sentinel value
diff_setup_done() has historically returned an error code, but lost
the last nonzero return in 943d5b7 (allow diff.renamelimit to be set
regardless of -M/-C, 2006-08-09). The callers were in a pretty
confused state: some actually checked for the return code, and some
did not.
Let it return void, and patch all callers to take this into account.
This conveniently also gets rid of a handful of different(!) error
messages that could never be triggered anyway.
Note that the function can still die().
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The diff code represents paths using the diff_filespec
struct. This struct has a sha1 to represent the sha1 of the
content at that path, as well as a sha1_valid member which
indicates whether its sha1 field is actually useful. If
sha1_valid is not true, then the filespec represents a
working tree file (e.g., for the no-index case, or for when
the index is not up-to-date).
The diff_filespec is only used internally, though. At the
interfaces to the diff subsystem, callers feed the sha1
directly, and we create a diff_filespec from it. It's at
that point that we look at the sha1 and decide whether it is
valid or not; callers may pass the null sha1 as a sentinel
value to indicate that it is not.
We should not typically see the null sha1 coming from any
other source (e.g., in the index itself, or from a tree).
However, a corrupt tree might have a null sha1, which would
cause "diff --patch" to accidentally diff the working tree
version of a file instead of treating it as a blob.
This patch extends the edges of the diff interface to accept
a "sha1_valid" flag whenever we accept a sha1, and to use
that flag when creating a filespec. In some cases, this
means passing the flag through several layers, making the
code change larger than would be desirable.
One alternative would be to simply die() upon seeing
corrupted trees with null sha1s. However, this fix more
directly addresses the problem (while bogus sha1s in a tree
are probably a bad thing, it is really the sentinel
confusion sending us down the wrong code path that is what
makes it devastating). And it means that git is more capable
of examining and debugging these corrupted trees. For
example, you can still "diff --raw" such a tree to find out
when the bogus entry was introduced; you just cannot do a
"--patch" diff (just as you could not with any other
corrupted tree, as we do not have any content to diff).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Due to the way "git diff --no-index" is bolted onto by touching the
low level code that is shared with the rest of the "git diff" code,
even though it has to work in a very different way, any comparison
that involves a file "-" at the root level incorrectly tried to read
from the standard input. This cleans up the no-index codepath
further to remove code that reads from the standard input from the
core side, which is never necessary when git is running its usual
diff operation.
* jc/refactor-diff-stdin:
diff-index.c: "git diff" has no need to read blob from the standard input
diff-index.c: unify handling of command line paths
diff-index.c: do not pretend paths are pathspecs
"git diff --no-index" did not correctly handle relative paths and
did not give correct exit codes when run under "--quiet" option.
* th/diff-no-index-fixes:
diff-no-index: exit(1) if 'diff --quiet <repo file> <external file>' finds changes
diff: handle relative paths in no-index
Only "diff --no-index -" does. Bolting the logic into the low-level
function diff_populate_filespec() was a layering violation from day
one. Move populate_from_stdin() function out of the generic diff.c
to its only user, diff-index.c.
Also make sure "-" from the command line stays a special token "read
from the standard input", even if we later decide to sanitize the
result from prefix_filename() function in a few obvious ways,
e.g. removing unnecessary "./" prefix, duplicated slashes "//" in
the middle, etc.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Regardless of where in the directory hierarchy you are, "-" on the
command line means the standard input. The old code knew too much
about how the low level machinery uses paths to read from the
working tree and did not bother to have the same check for "-" when
the command is run from the top-level.
Unify the codepaths for subdirectory case and toplevel case into one
and make it clearer.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git diff --no-index" takes exactly two paths, not pathspecs, and
has its own way queue_diff() to populate the diff_queue. Do not
call diff_tree_setup_paths(), pretending as it takes pathspecs.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When running 'git diff --quiet <file1> <file2>', if file1 or file2
is outside the repository, it will exit(0) even if the files differ.
It should exit(1) when they differ.
This happens because 'diff_no_index' looks at the 'found_changes'
member from 'diff_options' to determine if changes were made. This
is the wrong thing to do, since it is only set if xdiff is actually
run and it finds a change (the diff machinery will optimize out the
xdiff call when it is not necessary) and in that case HAS_CHANGED
flag needs to be taken into account.
Use diff_result_code() that knows all these details for the correct
exit value instead.
Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When diff-no-index is given a relative path to a file outside the
repository, it aborts with error. However, if the file is given
using an absolute path, the diff runs as expected. The two cases
should be treated the same.
Tests and commit message by Tim Henigan.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is no point in running a pager when --quiet is given,
since we are producing no output. The regular diff code path
handles this already, because --quiet implies --exit-code,
and we check for --exit-code when deciding not to run the
pager.
However, the "quiet implies exit-code" logic is done in
diff_setup_done, and the no-index code path sets up its
pager before running diff_setup_done, and misses this case.
We can fix this by reordering our initialization.
Currently we do:
1. read command line arguments into diff_options
2. Set pager if EXIT_CODE not requested
3. always set EXIT_CODE, since we are emulating
traditional diff
4. call diff_setup_done
We can fix the problem by moving pager initialization (step
2) after step 4. But step 3 must come after step 2 (since we
want to know whether the _user_ requested --exit-code, not
whether we turned it on unconditionally). So we must move
both.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-diff does not rely on the git wrapper to setup its
pager; instead, it sets it up on its own after seeing
whether --quiet or --exit-code has been specified. After
diff_no_index was split off from cmd_diff, commit b3fde6c
(git diff --no-index: default to page like other diff
frontends, 2008-05-26) duplicated the one-liner from
cmd_diff to turn on the pager.
Later, commit 8f0359f (Allow pager of diff command be
enabled/disabled, 2008-07-21) taught the the version in
cmd_diff to respect the pager.diff config, but the version
in diff_no_index was left behind. This meant that
git -c pager.diff=0 diff a b
would not use a pager, but
git -c pager.diff=0 diff --no-index a b
would. Let's fix it by factoring out a common function.
While we're there, let's update the antiquated comment,
which claims that the pager interferes with propagating the
exit code; this has not been the case since ea27a18 (spawn
pager via run_command interface, 2008-07-22).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
queue_diff uses two strbufs, and at the end of the function
strbuf_reset was called. This only reset the length of the buffer -
any allocated memory was leaked. Using strbuf_release fixes this.
Signed-off-by: Bobby Powers <bobbypowers@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 875b91b (diff --no-index: use strbuf for temporary pathnames,
2012-04-25) introduced a regression when using diff --no-index with
directories. When iterating through a directory, the switch to strbuf
from heap-allocated char arrays caused paths to form like 'dir/file1',
'dir/file1file2', rather than 'dir/file1', 'dir/file2' as expected.
Avoid this by resetting the paths variables to their original length
before each iteration.
Signed-off-by: Bobby Powers <bobbypowers@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of using limited-length buffers and risking of pathname
truncation, we should be taking advantage of strbuf API nowadays.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Due to the use of strncpy without explicit NUL termination,
we could end up passing names n1 or n2 that are not NUL-terminated
to queue_diff, which requires NUL-terminated strings.
Ensure that each is NUL terminated.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff_options.{paths,nr_paths} will be removed later. Do not
modify them directly.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update the definition and callers of string_list_insert to use the
string_list as the first argument. This helps make the string_list
API easier to use by being more consistent.
Signed-off-by: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we are in a git directory, get_git_work_tree() can return NULL.
While trying to determine whether or not the given paths are outside
the work tree, the following command would read from it anyways and
trigger a segmentation fault.
git diff / /
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Start the diff --no-index usage string with "usage:" instead of
"fatal:".
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Essentially; s/type* /type */ as per the coding guidelines.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously, 'git diff --no-index --stat a b' generated patch output in
addition to the --stat output (or whatever other output format was
requested). Now only the requested output is generated, and patch
output remains the default.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When launching "diff --no-index" with a parameter "/dev/null", the MSys
bash converts the "/dev/null" to a "nul", which usually makes sense. But
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
tests: fix "export var=val"
Skip timestamp differences for diff --no-index
Documentation/git-push: --all, --mirror, --tags can not be combined
We display empty diffs for files whose timestamps have changed.
Usually, refreshing the index makes those empty diffs go away.
However, when not using the index they are not very useful and
there is no option to suppress them.
This forces on the skip_stat_unmatch option for diff --no-index,
suppressing any empty diffs. This option is also used for diffs
against the index when "diff.autorefreshindex" is set, but that
option does not apply to diff --no-index.
Signed-off-by: Michael Spang <mspang@uwaterloo.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When trying to find out mode changes, we should not access the symlink
targets using stat(); instead we use lstat() so that the diff does
not fail trying to find a non-existing symlink target.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We forgot to move to the next argument when parsing -q, getting stuck
in an endless loop.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We need to parse options before we can see if --exit-code was
provided.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Accept -- as an "end of options" marker even when using --no-index.
Previously, the -- triggered a "normal" index/tree diff and subsequently
failed because of the unrecognized (in that mode) --no-index.
Note that the second loop can treat '--' as a normal option, because
the preceding checks ensure it is the third-to-last argument.
While at it, fix the parsing of "-q" option in --no-index mode as well.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With a new configuration "diff.mnemonicprefix", "git diff" shows the
differences between various combinations of preimage and postimage trees
with prefixes different from the standard "a/" and "b/". Hopefully this
will make the distinction stand out for some people.
"git diff" compares the (i)ndex and the (w)ork tree;
"git diff HEAD" compares a (c)ommit and the (w)ork tree;
"git diff --cached" compares a (c)ommit and the (i)ndex;
"git-diff HEAD:file1 file2" compares an (o)bject and a (w)ork tree entity;
"git diff --no-index a b" compares two non-git things (1) and (2).
Because these mnemonics now have meanings, they are swapped when reverse
diff is in effect and this feature is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano
Brian Bourn
Thomas Gummerer
Dale R. Worley
Jonathan Nieder
Thomas Rast
Jeff King
Tim Henigan
Bobby Powers
Jim Meyering
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Thiago Farina
Julian Phillips
Clemens Buchacher
Felipe Contreras
Johannes Sixt
Johannes Schindelin
Michael Spang