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<title>diff: report dirty submodules as changes in builtin_diff()</title>
<updated>2024-09-08T20:21:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>René Scharfe</name>
<email>l.s.r@web.de</email>
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<published>2024-09-08T07:08:35Z</published>
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The diff machinery has two ways to detect changes to set the exit code:
Just comparing hashes and comparing blob contents.  The latter is needed
if certain changes have to be ignored, e.g. with --ignore-space-change
or --ignore-matching-lines.  It's enabled by the diff_options flag
diff_from_contents.

The slower mode as never considered submodules (and subrepos) as changes
with --submodule=diff or --submodule=log, which is inconsistent with
--submodule=short (the default).  Fix it.

d7b97b7185 (diff: let external diffs report that changes are
uninteresting, 2024-06-09) set diff_from_contents if external diff
programs are allowed.  This is the default e.g. for git diff, and so
that change exposed the inconsistency much more widely.

Reported-by: David Hull &lt;david.hull@friendbuy.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe &lt;l.s.r@web.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>diff: report copies and renames as changes in run_diff_cmd()</title>
<updated>2024-09-08T20:21:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>René Scharfe</name>
<email>l.s.r@web.de</email>
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<published>2024-09-08T07:05:44Z</published>
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The diff machinery has two ways to detect changes to set the exit code:
Just comparing hashes and comparing blob contents.  The latter is needed
if certain changes have to be ignored, e.g. with --ignore-space-change
or --ignore-matching-lines.  It's enabled by the diff_options flag
diff_from_contents.

The slower mode has never considered copies and renames to be changes,
which is inconsistent with the quicker one.  Fix it.  Even if we ignore
the file contents (because it's empty or contains only ignored lines),
there's still the meta data change of adding or changing a filename, so
we need to report it in the exit code.

d7b97b7185 (diff: let external diffs report that changes are
uninteresting, 2024-06-09) set diff_from_contents if external diff
programs are allowed.  This is the default e.g. for git diff, and so
that change exposed the inconsistency much more widely.

Reported-by: Jorge Luis Martinez Gomez &lt;jol@jol.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe &lt;l.s.r@web.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'ps/leakfixes-more'</title>
<updated>2024-07-08T21:53:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-08T21:53:10Z</published>
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More memory leaks have been plugged.

* ps/leakfixes-more: (29 commits)
  builtin/blame: fix leaking ignore revs files
  builtin/blame: fix leaking prefixed paths
  blame: fix leaking data for blame scoreboards
  line-range: plug leaking find functions
  merge: fix leaking merge bases
  builtin/merge: fix leaking `struct cmdnames` in `get_strategy()`
  sequencer: fix memory leaks in `make_script_with_merges()`
  builtin/clone: plug leaking HEAD ref in `wanted_peer_refs()`
  apply: fix leaking string in `match_fragment()`
  sequencer: fix leaking string buffer in `commit_staged_changes()`
  commit: fix leaking parents when calling `commit_tree_extended()`
  config: fix leaking "core.notesref" variable
  rerere: fix various trivial leaks
  builtin/stash: fix leak in `show_stash()`
  revision: free diff options
  builtin/log: fix leaking commit list in git-cherry(1)
  merge-recursive: fix memory leak when finalizing merge
  builtin/merge-recursive: fix leaking object ID bases
  builtin/difftool: plug memory leaks in `run_dir_diff()`
  object-name: free leaking object contexts
  ...
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<title>Merge branch 'rs/diff-color-moved-w-no-ext-diff-fix'</title>
<updated>2024-07-02T16:59:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-02T16:59:02Z</published>
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"git diff --no-ext-diff" when diff.external is configured ignored
the "--color-moved" option.

* rs/diff-color-moved-w-no-ext-diff-fix:
  diff: allow --color-moved with --no-ext-diff
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'ps/use-the-repository'</title>
<updated>2024-07-02T16:59:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-02T16:59:00Z</published>
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A CPP macro USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE is introduced to help
transition the codebase to rely less on the availability of the
singleton the_repository instance.

* ps/use-the-repository:
  hex: guard declarations with `USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE`
  t/helper: remove dependency on `the_repository` in "proc-receive"
  t/helper: fix segfault in "oid-array" command without repository
  t/helper: use correct object hash in partial-clone helper
  compat/fsmonitor: fix socket path in networked SHA256 repos
  replace-object: use hash algorithm from passed-in repository
  protocol-caps: use hash algorithm from passed-in repository
  oidset: pass hash algorithm when parsing file
  http-fetch: don't crash when parsing packfile without a repo
  hash-ll: merge with "hash.h"
  refs: avoid include cycle with "repository.h"
  global: introduce `USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE` macro
  hash: require hash algorithm in `empty_tree_oid_hex()`
  hash: require hash algorithm in `is_empty_{blob,tree}_oid()`
  hash: make `is_null_oid()` independent of `the_repository`
  hash: convert `oidcmp()` and `oideq()` to compare whole hash
  global: ensure that object IDs are always padded
  hash: require hash algorithm in `oidread()` and `oidclr()`
  hash: require hash algorithm in `hasheq()`, `hashcmp()` and `hashclr()`
  hash: drop (mostly) unused `is_empty_{blob,tree}_sha1()` functions
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<entry>
<title>diff: allow --color-moved with --no-ext-diff</title>
<updated>2024-06-24T20:49:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>René Scharfe</name>
<email>l.s.r@web.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-24T19:15:45Z</published>
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We ignore the option --color-moved if an external diff program is
configured, presumably because its overhead is unnecessary in that case.
Respect the option if we don't actually use the external diff, though.

Reported-by: lolligerhans@gmx.de
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe &lt;l.s.r@web.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'rs/diff-exit-code-with-external-diff'</title>
<updated>2024-06-20T22:45:08Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-20T22:45:08Z</published>
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"git diff --exit-code --ext-diff" learned to take the exit status
of the external diff driver into account when deciding the exit
status of the overall "git diff" invocation when configured to do
so.

* rs/diff-exit-code-with-external-diff:
  diff: let external diffs report that changes are uninteresting
  userdiff: add and use struct external_diff
  t4020: test exit code with external diffs
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<entry>
<title>global: introduce `USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE` macro</title>
<updated>2024-06-14T17:26:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick Steinhardt</name>
<email>ps@pks.im</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-14T06:50:23Z</published>
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Use of the `the_repository` variable is deprecated nowadays, and we
slowly but steadily convert the codebase to not use it anymore. Instead,
callers should be passing down the repository to work on via parameters.

It is hard though to prove that a given code unit does not use this
variable anymore. The most trivial case, merely demonstrating that there
is no direct use of `the_repository`, is already a bit of a pain during
code reviews as the reviewer needs to manually verify claims made by the
patch author. The bigger problem though is that we have many interfaces
that implicitly rely on `the_repository`.

Introduce a new `USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE` macro that allows code
units to opt into usage of `the_repository`. The intent of this macro is
to demonstrate that a certain code unit does not use this variable
anymore, and to keep it from new dependencies on it in future changes,
be it explicit or implicit

For now, the macro only guards `the_repository` itself as well as
`the_hash_algo`. There are many more known interfaces where we have an
implicit dependency on `the_repository`, but those are not guarded at
the current point in time. Over time though, we should start to add
guards as required (or even better, just remove them).

Define the macro as required in our code units. As expected, most of our
code still relies on the global variable. Nearly all of our builtins
rely on the variable as there is no way yet to pass `the_repository` to
their entry point. For now, declare the macro in "biultin.h" to keep the
required changes at least a little bit more contained.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt &lt;ps@pks.im&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>hash: require hash algorithm in `oidread()` and `oidclr()`</title>
<updated>2024-06-14T17:26:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick Steinhardt</name>
<email>ps@pks.im</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-14T06:49:54Z</published>
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Both `oidread()` and `oidclr()` use `the_repository` to derive the hash
function that shall be used. Require callers to pass in the hash
algorithm to get rid of this implicit dependency.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt &lt;ps@pks.im&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>revision: free diff options</title>
<updated>2024-06-11T20:15:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick Steinhardt</name>
<email>ps@pks.im</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-11T09:20:24Z</published>
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There is a todo comment in `release_revisions()` that mentions that we
need to free the diff options, which was added via 54c8a7c379 (revisions
API: add a TODO for diff_free(&amp;revs-&gt;diffopt), 2022-04-14). Releasing
the diff options wasn't quite feasible at that time because some call
sites rely on its contents to remain even after the revisions have been
released.

In fact, there really only are a couple of callsites that misbehave
here:

  - `cmd_shortlog()` releases the revisions, but continues to access its
    file pointer.

  - `do_diff_cache()` creates a shallow copy of `struct diff_options`,
    but does not set the `no_free` member. Consequently, we end up
    releasing resources of the caller-provided diff options.

  - `diff_free()` and friends do not play nice when being called
    multiple times as they don't unset data structures that they have
    just released.

Fix all of those cases and enable the call to `diff_free()`, which plugs
a bunch of memory leaks.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt &lt;ps@pks.im&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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