From 5bd10b2adcf3a080169574dd08c5529de81eecb1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Justin Tobler Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:33:45 -0600 Subject: builtin: introduce diff-pairs command Through git-diff(1), a single diff can be generated from a pair of blob revisions directly. Unfortunately, there is not a mechanism to compute batches of specific file pair diffs in a single process. Such a feature is particularly useful on the server-side where diffing between a large set of changes is not feasible all at once due to timeout concerns. To facilitate this, introduce git-diff-pairs(1) which acts as a backend passing its NUL-terminated raw diff format input from stdin through diff machinery to produce various forms of output such as patch or raw. The raw format was originally designed as an interchange format and represents the contents of the diff_queued_diff list making it possible to break the diff pipeline into separate stages. For example, git-diff-tree(1) can be used as a frontend to compute file pairs to queue and feed its raw output to git-diff-pairs(1) to compute patches. With this, batches of diffs can be progressively generated without having to recompute renames or retrieve object context. Something like the following: git diff-tree -r -z -M $old $new | git diff-pairs -p -z should generate the same output as `git diff-tree -p -M`. Furthermore, each line of raw diff formatted input can also be individually fed to a separate git-diff-pairs(1) process and still produce the same output. Based-on-patch-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- git.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'git.c') diff --git a/git.c b/git.c index 450d6aaa86..77c4359522 100644 --- a/git.c +++ b/git.c @@ -541,6 +541,7 @@ static struct cmd_struct commands[] = { { "diff", cmd_diff, NO_PARSEOPT }, { "diff-files", cmd_diff_files, RUN_SETUP | NEED_WORK_TREE | NO_PARSEOPT }, { "diff-index", cmd_diff_index, RUN_SETUP | NO_PARSEOPT }, + { "diff-pairs", cmd_diff_pairs, RUN_SETUP | NO_PARSEOPT }, { "diff-tree", cmd_diff_tree, RUN_SETUP | NO_PARSEOPT }, { "difftool", cmd_difftool, RUN_SETUP_GENTLY }, { "fast-export", cmd_fast_export, RUN_SETUP }, -- cgit v1.2.3