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SZEDER Gábor af05d67939 Always set *nongit_ok in setup_git_directory_gently()
setup_git_directory_gently() only modified the value of its *nongit_ok
argument if we were not in a git repository.  Now it will always set it
to 0 when we are inside a repository.

Also remove now unnecessary initializations in the callers of this
function.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-26 15:41:35 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 860cc3a4f9 Merge branch 'jc/diff-relative'
* jc/diff-relative:
  diff --relative: help working in a bare repository
  diff --relative: output paths as relative to the current subdirectory
2008-02-27 11:55:28 -08:00
Matthias Kestenholz 6b2f2d9805 Add color.ui variable which globally enables colorization if set
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kestenholz <mk@spinlock.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-18 00:00:38 -08:00
Junio C Hamano cd676a5136 diff --relative: output paths as relative to the current subdirectory
This adds --relative option to the diff family.  When you start
from a subdirectory:

        $ git diff --relative

shows only the diff that is inside your current subdirectory,
and without $prefix part.  People who usually live in
subdirectories may like it.

There are a few things I should also mention about the change:

 - This works not just with diff but also works with the log
   family of commands, but the history pruning is not affected.

   In other words, if you go to a subdirectory, you can say:

        $ git log --relative -p

   but it will show the log message even for commits that do not
   touch the current directory.  You can limit it by giving
   pathspec yourself:

        $ git log --relative -p .

   This originally was not a conscious design choice, but we
   have a way to affect diff pathspec and pruning pathspec
   independently.  IOW "git log --full-diff -p ." tells it to
   prune history to commits that affect the current subdirectory
   but show the changes with full context.  I think it makes
   more sense to leave pruning independent from --relative than
   the obvious alternative of always pruning with the current
   subdirectory, which would break the symmetry.

 - Because this works also with the log family, you could
   format-patch a single change, limiting the effect to your
   subdirectory, like so:

        $ cd gitk-git
        $ git format-patch -1 --relative 911f1eb

   But because that is a special purpose usage, this option will
   never become the default, with or without repository or user
   preference configuration.  The risk of producing a partial
   patch and sending it out by mistake is too great if we did
   so.

 - This is inherently incompatible with --no-index, which is a
   bolted-on hack that does not have much to do with git
   itself.  I didn't bother checking and erroring out on the
   combined use of the options, but probably I should.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-13 14:58:07 -08:00
Brandon Casey 4ed7cd3ab0 Improve use of lockfile API
Remove remaining double close(2)'s.  i.e. close() before
commit_locked_index() or commit_lock_file().

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-16 15:35:35 -08:00
Junio C Hamano da31b358fb diff --check: minor fixups
There is no reason --exit-code and --check-diff must be mutually
exclusive, so assign different bits to different results and allow them
to be returned from the command.  Introduce diff_result_code() to factor
out the common code to decide final status code based on diffopt
settings and use it everywhere.

Update tests to match the above fix.

Turning pager off when "diff --check" is used is a regression.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-13 23:40:27 -08:00
Wincent Colaiuta 62c64895cf "diff --check" should affect exit status
"git diff" has a --check option that can be used to check for whitespace
problems but it only reported by printing warnings to the
console.

Now when the --check option is used we give a non-zero exit status,
making "git diff --check" nicer to use in scripts and hooks.

Signed-off-by: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-13 23:05:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 3384a2dfc1 shortlog: default to HEAD when the standard input is a tty
Instead of warning the user that it is expecting git log output from
the standard input (and waiting for the user to type the log from
the keyboard, which is a silly thing to do), default to traverse from
HEAD when there is no rev parameter given and the standard input is
a tty.

This factors out a useful helper "add_head()" from builtin-diff.c to a
more appropriate place revision.c while renaming it to more descriptive
name add_head_to_pending(), as that is what the function is about.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-11 17:01:31 -08:00
Pierre Habouzit 8f67f8aefb Make the diff_options bitfields be an unsigned with explicit masks.
reverse_diff was a bit-value in disguise, it's merged in the flags now.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 16:54:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano fbbdbfc3cc refresh_index_quietly(): express "optional" nature of index writing better
The point of the part of the code this patch touches is that if
we modified the active_cache, we try to write it out and make it
the index file for later users to use by calling
"commit_locked_index", but we do not really care about the
failure from this sequence because it is done purely as an
optimization.

The original code called three functions primarily for their
side effects but as condition of an if statement, which is
admittedly a bad style.

Incidentally, it squelches an "empty if body" warning from gcc.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-08 16:26:23 -08:00
Junio C Hamano aecbf914c4 git-diff: resurrect the traditional empty "diff --git" behaviour
The warning message to suggest "Consider running git-status" from
"git-diff" that we experimented with during the 1.5.3 cycle turns
out to be a bad idea.  It robbed cache-dirty information from people
who valued it, while still asking users to run "update-index --refresh".
It was hoped that the new behaviour would at least have some educational
value, but not showing the cache-dirty paths like before meant that the
user would not even know easily which paths were cache-dirty, and it
made the need to refresh the index look like even more unnecessary chore.

This commit reinstates the traditional behaviour, but with a twist.

By default, the empty "diff --git" output is totally squelched out
from "git diff" output.  At the end of the command, it automatically
runs "update-index --refresh" as needed, without even bothering the
user.  In other words, people who do not care about the cache-dirtyness
do not even have to see the warning.

The traditional behaviour to see the stat-dirty output and to bypassing
the overhead of content comparison can be specified by setting the
configuration variable diff.autorefreshindex to false.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-31 23:30:14 -07:00
Junio C Hamano fb13227e08 git-diff: squelch "empty" diffs
After starting to edit a working tree file but later when your edit ends
up identical to the original (this can also happen when you ran a
wholesale regexp replace with something like "perl -i" that does not
actually modify many of the paths), "git diff" between the index and the
working tree outputs many "empty" diffs that show "diff --git" headers
and nothing else, because these paths are stat-dirty.  While it was a
way to warn the user that the earlier action of the user made the index
ineffective as an optimization mechanism, it was felt too loud for the
purpose of warning even to experienced users, and also resulted in
confusing people new to git.

This replaces the "empty" diffs with a single warning message at the
end.  Having many such paths hurts performance, and you can run
"git-update-index --refresh" to update the lstat(2) information recorded
in the index in such a case.  "git-status" does so as a side effect, and
that is more familiar to the end-user, so we recommend it to them.

The change affects only "git diff" that outputs patch text, because that
is where the annoyance of too many "empty" diff is most strongly felt,
and because the warning message can be safely ignored by downstream
tools without getting mistaken as part of the patch.  For the low-level
"git diff-files" and "git diff-index", the traditional behaviour is
retained.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-14 01:55:00 -07:00
René Scharfe 89d07f750a diff: don't run pager if user asked for a diff style exit code
As Wincent Colaiuta found out, it's a bit unexpected for git diff to
start a pager even when the --quiet option is specified.  The problem
is that the pager hides the return code -- which is the only output
we're interested in in this case.

Push pager setup down into builtin-diff.c and don't start the pager
if --exit-code or --quiet (which implies --exit-code) was specified.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-13 13:06:23 -07:00
Jeff King 82cb8afa9b git-diff: turn on recursion by default
The tree recursion behavior of git-diff may appear
inconsistent to the user because it depends on the format of
the patch as well as whether one is diffing between trees or
against the index.

Since git-diff is a porcelain wrapper for low-level diff
commands, it makes sense for its behavior to be consistent
no matter what is being diffed.  This patch turns on
recursion in all cases.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-29 13:24:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 43342941dd Diff between two blobs should take mode changes into account now.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-24 00:08:49 -07:00
Martin Koegler 01618a3ab1 use mode of the tree in git-diff, if <tree>:<file> syntax is used
Signed-off-by: Martin Koegler <mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-24 00:08:49 -07:00
Junio C Hamano f1af60bdba Support 'diff=pgm' attribute
This enhances the attributes mechanism so that external programs
meant for existing GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF interface can be specifed
per path.

To configure such a custom diff driver, first define a custom
diff driver in the configuration:

	[diff "my-c-diff"]
		command = <<your command string comes here>>

Then mark the paths that you want to use this custom driver
using the attribute mechanism.

	*.c	diff=my-c-diff

The intent of this separation is that the attribute mechanism is
used for specifying the type of the contents, while the
configuration mechanism is used to define what needs to be done
to that type of the contents, which would be specific to both
platform and personal taste.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-22 22:16:14 -07:00
Alex Riesen 41bbf9d585 Allow git-diff exit with codes similar to diff(1)
This introduces a new command-line option: --exit-code. The diff
programs will return 1 for differences, return 0 for equality, and
something else for errors.

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-14 16:21:19 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin fcfa33ec90 diff: make more cases implicit --no-index
When specifying an absolute path, or a relative path pointing outside
the working tree, do not fail, but roll your own diffopt parsing,
and execute a --no-index diff.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-28 16:32:31 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 048f48a2fd Merge branch 'master' into js/diff-ni
* master: (201 commits)
  Documentation: link in 1.5.0.2 material to the top documentation page.
  Documentation: document remote.<name>.tagopt
  GIT 1.5.0.2
  git-remote: support remotes with a dot in the name
  Documentation: describe "-f/-t/-m" options to "git-remote add"
  diff --cc: fix display of symlink conflicts during a merge.
  merge-recursive: fix longstanding bug in merging symlinks
  merge-index: fix longstanding bug in merging symlinks
  diff --cached: give more sensible error message when HEAD is yet to be created.
  Update tests to use test-chmtime
  Add test-chmtime: a utility to change mtime on files
  Add Release Notes to prepare for 1.5.0.2
  Allow arbitrary number of arguments to git-pack-objects
  rerere: do not deal with symlinks.
  rerere: do not skip two conflicted paths next to each other.
  Don't modify CREDITS-FILE if it hasn't changed.
  diff-patch: Avoid emitting double-slashes in textual patch.
  Reword git-am 3-way fallback failure message.
  Limit filename for format-patch
  core.legacyheaders: Use the description used in RelNotes-1.5.0
  ...
2007-02-26 01:20:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 6c09c45138 diff --cached: give more sensible error message when HEAD is yet to be created.
It is not like the user said 'diff --cached HEAD', so complaining about
HEAD not being a valid commit, while technically might be correct, is
not very helpful.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-25 11:09:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano efdfd6c8d4 Evil Merge branch 'jc/status' (early part) into js/diff-ni
* 'jc/status' (early part):
  run_diff_{files,index}(): update calling convention.
  update-index: do not die too early in a read-only repository.
  git-status: do not be totally useless in a read-only repository.

This is to resolve semantic conflict (which is not textual) that
changes the calling convention of run_diff_files() early.
2007-02-24 02:20:13 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin 75b62b489a git-diff: fix combined diff
The code forgets that typecast binds tighter than addition, in
other words:

    (cast *)array + i  === ((cast *)array) + i

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-22 21:24:34 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin d516c2d119 Teach git-diff-files the new option `--no-index`
With this flag and given two paths, git-diff-files behaves as a GNU diff
lookalike (plus the git goodies like --check, colour, etc.).  This flag
is also available in git-diff.  It also works outside of a git repository.

In addition, if git-diff{,-files} is called without revision or stage
parameter, and with exactly two paths at least one of which is not tracked,
the default is --no-index.

So, you can now say

	git diff /etc/inittab /etc/fstab

and it actually works!

This also unifies the duplicated argument parsing between cmd_diff_files()
and builtin_diff_files().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-22 20:59:55 -08:00
Junio C Hamano b4e1e4a787 run_diff_{files,index}(): update calling convention.
They used to open and read index themselves, but they now expect
their callers to do so.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-22 02:02:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano f2dd1c9adf Revert "git-diff: Introduce --index and deprecate --cached."
This reverts commit 4c81c213a4.

Although --cached and --index are confusing wording, the use of
word --cached for git-diff is consistent with git-apply.  It means
"work with index without looking at the working tree".

We should probably come up with better wording for --cached, if
somebody wants to deprecate it.  But making --index and --cached
synonyms for diff while leaving them mean different things for
apply is no good.
2006-12-13 02:03:11 -08:00
Andreas Ericsson 4c81c213a4 git-diff: Introduce --index and deprecate --cached.
'git diff --cached' still works, but its use is discouraged
in the documentation. 'git diff --index' does the same thing
and is consistent with how 'git apply --index' works.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-01 21:57:04 -08:00
Shawn Pearce e702496e43 Convert memcpy(a,b,20) to hashcpy(a,b).
This abstracts away the size of the hash values when copying them
from memory location to memory location, much as the introduction
of hashcmp abstracted away hash value comparsion.

A few call sites were using char* rather than unsigned char* so
I added the cast rather than open hashcpy to be void*.  This is a
reasonable tradeoff as most call sites already use unsigned char*
and the existing hashcmp is also declared to be unsigned char*.

[jc: Splitted the patch to "master" part, to be followed by a
 patch for merge-recursive.c which is not in "master" yet.

 Fixed the cast in the latter hunk to combine-diff.c which was
 wrong in the original.

 Also converted ones left-over in combine-diff.c, diff-lib.c and
 upload-pack.c ]

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-23 13:53:10 -07:00
David Rientjes a89fccd281 Do not use memcmp(sha1_1, sha1_2, 20) with hardcoded length.
Introduces global inline:

	hashcmp(const unsigned char *sha1, const unsigned char *sha2)

Uses memcmp for comparison and returns the result based on the length of
the hash name (a future runtime decision).

Acked-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-17 14:23:53 -07:00
David Rientjes 0bef57ee44 make inline is_null_sha1 global
Replace sha1 comparisons to null_sha1 with a global inline (which previously an
unused static inline in builtin-apply.c)

[jc: with a fix from Jonas Fonseca.]

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-15 15:06:03 -07:00
Junio C Hamano f3c5b39567 Merge branch 'th/diff-extra' 2006-08-12 19:34:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 306ea2df03 Fix git-diff A...B
Commit 9919f41 meant to make git-diff A...B to (usually) mean
"git-diff `git-merge-base A B` B", but it got the parameters wrong
and ended up showing "git-diff `git-merge-base A B` A" by mistake.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-10 00:50:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 72ee96c0f1 check return value from diff_setup_done()
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-09 12:45:27 -07:00
Ramsay Allan Jones 15e593e4d3 Fixup command names in some usage strings.
Most usage strings, such as for command xxx, start with "git-xxx".
This updates the rebels to conform to the general pattern.
(The git wrapper is an exception to this, of course ...)

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Allan Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-03 21:38:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 53dd8a9cb5 Show both blob names from "git diff blob1 blob2"
Earlier we deliberately showed only blob1's name because showing
both names labeled the output as a renaming patch.  Now the output
routine (namely, diff.c::resolve_rename_copy()) is taught not to
use pathname comparison to tell if a filepair is a rename, we can
safely do this change.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-03 14:41:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano f82cd3c610 Fix "git diff blob1 blob2" showing the diff in reverse.
This was introduced by mistake when revision.c::add_pending_object()
was modified to use object-array instead of object-list.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-03 11:50:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds a633fca0c0 Call setup_git_directory() much earlier
This changes the calling convention of built-in commands and
passes the "prefix" (i.e. pathname of $PWD relative to the
project root level) down to them.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-29 01:34:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds db6296a566 Call setup_git_directory() early
Any git command that expects to work in a subdirectory of a project, and
that reads the git config files (which is just about all of them) needs to
make sure that it does the "setup_git_directory()" call before it tries to
read the config file.

This means, among other things, that we need to move the call out of
"init_revisions()", and into the caller.

This does the mostly trivial conversion to do that.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-28 22:03:06 -07:00
Junio C Hamano f789f82993 Merge branch 'jc/diff'
* jc/diff:
  git-diff A...B to (usually) mean "git-diff `git-merge-base A B` B"
2006-07-28 12:23:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano ef1d9c5aa4 log and diff family: honor config even from subdirectories
There currently is an unfortunate circular dependency between
what init_revisions (the command line revision specification
parser) does and setting up the log and diff options.  The
function uses setup_git_directory() to find the root of the
project relative to the current directory and calls diff_setup()
to prepare diff generation.  However, some of the things that
diff_setup() does needs to depend on the configuration variable,
which needs to be read after setup_git_directory() is called.

This patch is a low impact workaround.  It first lets
init_revisions() to run and do its thing, then uses git_config()
and diff_setup() after it returns, so that configuration
variables that affects the diff operation can be used from
subdirectories.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-27 22:55:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 9919f41c91 git-diff A...B to (usually) mean "git-diff `git-merge-base A B` B"
This tweaks the argument parser of "git diff" to allow "git-diff
A...B" to show diffs leading to B since their merge-base, when
there is only one sensible merge base between A and B.

Currently nonsense cases are thrown at combined-diff to produce
nonsense results, which would eventually need to be fixed.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-17 01:10:03 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1974632c66 Remove TYPE_* constant macros and use object_type enums consistently.
This updates the type-enumeration constants introduced to reduce
the memory footprint of "struct object" to match the type bits
already used in the packfile format, by removing the former
(i.e. TYPE_* constant macros) and using the latter (i.e. enum
object_type) throughout the code for consistency.

Eventually we can stop passing around the "type strings"
entirely, and this will help - no confusion about two different
integer enumeration.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-12 23:18:03 -07:00
Pavel Roskin 82e5a82fd7 Fix more typos, primarily in the code
The only visible change is that git-blame doesn't understand
"--compability" anymore, but it does accept "--compatibility" instead,
which is already documented.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-10 00:36:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 83ad63cfeb diff: do not use configuration magic at the core-level
The Porcelainish has become so much usable as the UI that there
is not much reason people should be using the core programs by
hand anymore.  At this point we are better off making the
behaviour of the core programs predictable by keeping them
unaffected by the configuration variables.  Otherwise they will
become very hard to use as reliable building blocks.

For example, "git-commit -a" internally uses git-diff-files to
figure out the set of paths that need to be updated in the
index, and we should never allow diff.renames that happens to be
in the configuration to interfere (or slow down the process).

The UI level configuration such as showing renamed diff and
coloring are still honored by the Porcelainish ("git log" family
and "git diff"), but not by the core anymore.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-08 03:11:01 -07:00
Timo Hirvonen 5faf64cd28 Remove awkward compatibility warts
Signed-off-by: Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-01 22:26:00 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 047fbe906b builtin-diff: turn recursive on when defaulting to --patch format.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-01 22:15:40 -07:00
Timo Hirvonen c9b5ef998a Set default diff output format after parsing command line
Initialize output_format to 0 instead of DIFF_FORMAT_RAW so that we can see
later if any command line options changed it.  Default value is set only if
output format was not specified.

Signed-off-by: Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-26 14:58:40 -07:00
Timo Hirvonen a610786f4b Make --raw option available for all diff commands
Signed-off-by: Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-26 14:58:40 -07:00
Timo Hirvonen c6744349df Merge with_raw, with_stat and summary variables to output_format
DIFF_FORMAT_* are now bit-flags instead of enumerated values.

Signed-off-by: Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-26 14:58:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1f1e895fcc Add "named object array" concept
We've had this notion of a "object_list" for a long time, which eventually
grew a "name" member because some users (notably git-rev-list) wanted to
name each object as it is generated.

That object_list is great for some things, but it isn't all that wonderful
for others, and the "name" member is generally not used by everybody.

This patch splits the users of the object_list array up into two: the
traditional list users, who want the list-like format, and who don't
actually use or want the name. And another class of users that really used
the list as an extensible array, and generally wanted to name the objects.

The patch is fairly straightforward, but it's also biggish. Most of it
really just cleans things up: switching the revision parsing and listing
over to the array makes things like the builtin-diff usage much simpler
(we now see exactly how many members the array has, and we don't get the
objects reversed from the order they were on the command line).

One of the main reasons for doing this at all is that the malloc overhead
of the simple object list was actually pretty high, and the array is just
a lot denser. So this patch brings down memory usage by git-rev-list by
just under 3% (on top of all the other memory use optimizations) on the
mozilla archive.

It does add more lines than it removes, and more importantly, it adds a
whole new infrastructure for maintaining lists of objects, but on the
other hand, the new dynamic array code is pretty obvious. The change to
builtin-diff-tree.c shows a fairly good example of why an array interface
is sometimes more natural, and just much simpler for everybody.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-19 18:45:48 -07:00