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Re: diff: --quiet does not imply --exit-code if --diff-filter is present

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
May 31, 2011, 15:33 UTC
Message-ID
<20110531153356.GB2594@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
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On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 07:34:39PM +0900, Yasushi SHOJI wrote:
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> just noticed that quiet does not return exit code when I set
> diff-filter.  at the current tip (v1.7.5.3-401-gfb674d7):
> 
>   git diff --quiet     --diff-filter=A v1.7.5 v1.7.5.1 -- t  #=> 0
>   git diff --exit-code --diff-filter=A v1.7.5 v1.7.5.1 -- t  #=> 1
> 
> these two line returns different exit code.
> 
> is this a bug or a feature?
It's a bug.
-- >8 --
Subject: [PATCH] diff_tree: disable QUICK optimization with diff filter

We stop looking for changes early with QUICK, so our diff queue contains only a subset of the changes. However, we don't apply diff filters until later; it will appear at that point as though there are no changes matching our filter, when in reality we simply didn't keep looking for changes long enough.

Commit 2cfe8a6 (diff --quiet: disable optimization when --diff-filter=X is used, 2011-03-16) fixes this in some cases by disabling the optimization when a filter is present. However, it only tweaked run_diff_files, missing the similar case in diff_tree. Thus the fix worked only for diffing the working tree and index, but not between trees.

Noticed by Yasushi SHOJI.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
Grepping around, I think this was the only other missed case.
 t/t4040-whitespace-status.sh |    5 +++++
 tree-diff.c                  |    1 +
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/t/t4040-whitespace-status.sh b/t/t4040-whitespace-status.sh
index abc4934..3c728a3 100755
--- a/t/t4040-whitespace-status.sh
+++ b/t/t4040-whitespace-status.sh
@@ -67,4 +67,9 @@ test_expect_success 'diff-files --diff-filter --quiet' '
 	test_must_fail git diff-files --diff-filter=M --quiet
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'diff-tree --diff-filter --quiet' '
+	git commit -a -m "worktree state" &&
+	test_must_fail git diff-tree --diff-filter=M --quiet HEAD^ HEAD
+'
+
 test_done
diff --git a/tree-diff.c b/tree-diff.c
index 7a79660..3d08f78 100644
--- a/tree-diff.c
+++ b/tree-diff.c
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ int diff_tree(struct tree_desc *t1, struct tree_desc *t2,
 
 	for (;;) {
 		if (DIFF_OPT_TST(opt, QUICK) &&
+		    !opt->filter &&
 		    DIFF_OPT_TST(opt, HAS_CHANGES))
 			break;
 		if (opt->pathspec.nr) {
-- 
1.7.5.3.7.g7dde6.dirty
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  1. Yasushi SHOJIMay 31, 2011
  2. Jeff KingMay 31, 2011
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 31, 2011
  4. Jeff KingMay 31, 2011
  5. Re* diff: --quiet does not imply --exit-code if --diff-filter is presentJunio C Hamano, May 31, 2011
  6. Jeff KingMay 31, 2011
  7. Junio C HamanoMay 31, 2011
  8. Yasushi SHOJIJun 1, 2011

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