git/diff.c, branch v2.3.10

react to errors in xdi_diff

2015-09-28T21:57:10Z

When we call into xdiff to perform a diff, we generally lose the return code completely. Typically by ignoring the return of our xdi_diff wrapper, but sometimes we even propagate that return value up and then ignore it later. This can lead to us silently producing incorrect diffs (e.g., "git log" might produce no output at all, not even a diff header, for a content-level diff). In practice this does not happen very often, because the typical reason for xdiff to report failure is that it malloc() failed (it uses straight malloc, and not our xmalloc wrapper). But it could also happen when xdiff triggers one our callbacks, which returns an error (e.g., outf() in builtin/rerere.c tries to report a write failure in this way). And the next patch also plans to add more failure modes. Let's notice an error return from xdiff and react appropriately. In most of the diff.c code, we can simply die(), which matches the surrounding code (e.g., that is what we do if we fail to load a file for diffing in the first place). This is not that elegant, but we are probably better off dying to let the user know there was a problem, rather than simply generating bogus output. We could also just die() directly in xdi_diff, but the callers typically have a bit more context, and can provide a better message (and if we do later decide to pass errors up, we're one step closer to doing so). There is one interesting case, which is in diff_grep(). Here if we cannot generate the diff, there is nothing to match, and we silently return "no hits". This is actually what the existing code does already, but we make it a little more explicit. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'rs/deflate-init-cleanup' into maint

2015-03-23T18:23:38Z

Code simplification. * rs/deflate-init-cleanup: zlib: initialize git_zstream in git_deflate_init{,_gzip,_raw}

Merge branch 'mk/diff-shortstat-dirstat-fix' into maint

2015-03-14T05:56:04Z

"git diff --shortstat --dirstat=changes" showed a dirstat based on lines that was never asked by the end user in addition to the dirstat that the user asked for. * mk/diff-shortstat-dirstat-fix: diff --shortstat --dirstat: remove duplicate output

zlib: initialize git_zstream in git_deflate_init{,_gzip,_raw}

2015-03-05T23:46:03Z

Clear the git_zstream variable at the start of git_deflate_init() etc. so that callers don't have to do that. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

diff --shortstat --dirstat: remove duplicate output

2015-03-02T19:31:27Z

When --shortstat is used in conjunction with --dirstat=changes, git diff will output the dirstat information twice: first as calculated by the 'lines' algorithm, then as calculated by the 'changes' algorithm: $ git diff --dirstat=changes,10 --shortstat v2.2.0..v2.2.1 23 files changed, 453 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-) 33.5% Documentation/RelNotes/ 26.2% t/ 46.6% Documentation/RelNotes/ 16.6% t/ The same duplication happens for --shortstat together with --dirstat=files, but not for --shortstat together with --dirstat=lines. Limit output to only include one dirstat part, calculated as specified by the --dirstat parameter. Also, add test for this. Signed-off-by: Mårten Kongstad Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'jn/parse-config-slot'

2014-10-20T19:23:48Z

Code cleanup. * jn/parse-config-slot: color_parse: do not mention variable name in error message pass config slots as pointers instead of offsets

color_parse: do not mention variable name in error message

2014-10-14T18:01:21Z

Originally the color-parsing function was used only for config variables. It made sense to pass the variable name so that the die() message could be something like: $ git -c color.branch.plain=bogus branch fatal: bad color value 'bogus' for variable 'color.branch.plain' These days we call it in other contexts, and the resulting error messages are a little confusing: $ git log --pretty='%C(bogus)' fatal: bad color value 'bogus' for variable '--pretty format' $ git config --get-color foo.bar bogus fatal: bad color value 'bogus' for variable 'command line' This patch teaches color_parse to complain only about the value, and then return an error code. Config callers can then propagate that up to the config parser, which mentions the variable name. Other callers can provide a custom message. After this patch these three cases now look like: $ git -c color.branch.plain=bogus branch error: invalid color value: bogus fatal: unable to parse 'color.branch.plain' from command-line config $ git log --pretty='%C(bogus)' error: invalid color value: bogus fatal: unable to parse --pretty format $ git config --get-color foo.bar bogus error: invalid color value: bogus fatal: unable to parse default color value Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'nd/large-blobs'

2014-09-11T17:33:33Z

Teach a few codepaths to punt (instead of dying) when large blobs that would not fit in core are involved in the operation. * nd/large-blobs: diff: shortcut for diff'ing two binary SHA-1 objects diff --stat: mark any file larger than core.bigfilethreshold binary diff.c: allow to pass more flags to diff_populate_filespec sha1_file.c: do not die failing to malloc in unpack_compressed_entry wrapper.c: introduce gentle xmallocz that does not die()

run-command: introduce CHILD_PROCESS_INIT

2014-08-20T16:53:37Z

Most struct child_process variables are cleared using memset first after declaration. Provide a macro, CHILD_PROCESS_INIT, that can be used to initialize them statically instead. That's shorter, doesn't require a function call and is slightly more readable (especially given that we already have STRBUF_INIT, ARGV_ARRAY_INIT etc.). Helped-by: Johannes Sixt Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

diff: shortcut for diff'ing two binary SHA-1 objects

2014-08-18T17:16:55Z

If we are given two SHA-1 and asked to determine if they are different (but not _what_ differences), we know right away by comparing SHA-1. A side effect of this patch is, because large files are marked binary, diff-tree will not need to unpack them. 'diff-index --cached' will not either. But 'diff-files' still does. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano