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[PATCH v2] diff: support --cached on unborn branches

From
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 30, 2010, 11:16 UTC
Message-ID
<1288437377-30405-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<7vhbg56i9s.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

"git diff --cached" (without revision) used to mean "git diff --cached HEAD" (i.e. the user was too lazy to type HEAD). This "correctly" failed when there was no commit yet. But was that correctness useful?

This patch changes the definition of what particular command means. It is a request to show what _would_ be committed without further "git add". The internal implementation is still the same "git diff --cached HEAD" when HEAD exists, but when there is no commit yet, it compares the index with an empty tree object to achieve the desired result.

(Written by Junio)
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
---
 "git diff --cached HEAD" does fail, but I don't really care.
 builtin/diff.c                      |    7 ++++-
 t/t4013-diff-various.sh             |   11 ++++++++++
 t/t4013/diff.diff_--cached          |   38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 t/t4013/diff.diff_--cached_--_file0 |   15 +++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 t/t4013/diff.diff_--cached
 create mode 100644 t/t4013/diff.diff_--cached_--_file0
diff --git a/builtin/diff.c b/builtin/diff.c
index a43d326..d8db957 100644
--- a/builtin/diff.c
+++ b/builtin/diff.c
@@ -330,8 +330,11 @@ int cmd_diff(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			else if (!strcmp(arg, "--cached") ||
 				 !strcmp(arg, "--staged")) {
 				add_head_to_pending(&rev);
-				if (!rev.pending.nr)
-					die("No HEAD commit to compare with (yet)");
+				if (!rev.pending.nr) {
+					struct tree *tree;
+					tree = lookup_tree((const unsigned char*)EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN);
+					add_pending_object(&rev, &tree->object, "HEAD");
+				}
 				break;
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/t/t4013-diff-various.sh b/t/t4013-diff-various.sh
index 9a66520..b8f81d0 100755
--- a/t/t4013-diff-various.sh
+++ b/t/t4013-diff-various.sh
@@ -290,4 +290,15 @@ test_expect_success 'log -S requires an argument' '
 	test_must_fail git log -S
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'diff --cached on unborn branch' '
+	echo ref: refs/heads/unborn >.git/HEAD &&
+	git diff --cached >result &&
+	test_cmp "$TEST_DIRECTORY/t4013/diff.diff_--cached" result
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'diff --cached -- file on unborn branch' '
+	git diff --cached -- file0 >result &&
+	test_cmp "$TEST_DIRECTORY/t4013/diff.diff_--cached_--_file0" result
+'
+
 test_done
diff --git a/t/t4013/diff.diff_--cached b/t/t4013/diff.diff_--cached
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ff16e83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t4013/diff.diff_--cached
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+diff --git a/dir/sub b/dir/sub
+new file mode 100644
+index 0000000..992913c
+--- /dev/null
++++ b/dir/sub
+@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
++A
++B
++C
++D
++E
++F
++1
++2
+diff --git a/file0 b/file0
+new file mode 100644
+index 0000000..10a8a9f
+--- /dev/null
++++ b/file0
+@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
++1
++2
++3
++4
++5
++6
++A
++B
++C
+diff --git a/file1 b/file1
+new file mode 100644
+index 0000000..b1e6722
+--- /dev/null
++++ b/file1
+@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
++A
++B
++C
diff --git a/t/t4013/diff.diff_--cached_--_file0 b/t/t4013/diff.diff_--cached_--_file0
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b9bb858
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t4013/diff.diff_--cached_--_file0
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+diff --git a/file0 b/file0
+new file mode 100644
+index 0000000..10a8a9f
+--- /dev/null
++++ b/file0
+@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
++1
++2
++3
++4
++5
++6
++A
++B
++C
-- 
1.7.0.2.445.gcbdb3
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Message 5 of 9 in “diff: support --root --cached combination”
  1. diff: support --root --cached combinationNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 29, 2010
  2. Jonathan NiederOct 29, 2010
  3. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 29, 2010
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 29, 2010
  5. diff: support --cached on unborn branchesNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 30, 2010
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 31, 2010
  7. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 31, 2010
  8. diff: support --cached on unborn branchesNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Feb 3, 2011
  9. Jeff KingOct 29, 2010

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