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[PATCH 5/9] diff: use hunk callback for word-diff

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Nov 2, 2018, 06:37 UTC
Message-ID
<20181102063718.GE31216@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20181102063156.GA30252@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Our word-diff does not look at the -/+ lines generated by xdiff at all (because they are not real lines to show the user, but just the tokenized words split into lines). Instead we use the line numbers from the hunk headers to index our own data structure.

As a result, our xdi_diff_outf() callback throws away all lines except hunk headers. We can instead use a hunk callback, which has two benefits:

  1. We don't have to re-parse the generated hunk header line, but can
     use the passed parameters directly.
  2. By setting our line callback to NULL, we can tell xdiff-interface
     that it does not even need to bother generating the other lines,
     saving a small amount of work.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 diff.c            | 12 +++++-------
 xdiff-interface.c |  3 +++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index 8a83ce6058..37035110dc 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -1912,19 +1912,17 @@ static int color_words_output_graph_prefix(struct diff_words_data *diff_words)
 	}
 }
 
-static void fn_out_diff_words_aux(void *priv, char *line, unsigned long len)
+static void fn_out_diff_words_aux(void *priv,
+				  long minus_first, long minus_len,
+				  long plus_first, long plus_len,
+				  const char *func, long funclen)
 {
 	struct diff_words_data *diff_words = priv;
 	struct diff_words_style *style = diff_words->style;
-	int minus_first, minus_len, plus_first, plus_len;
 	const char *minus_begin, *minus_end, *plus_begin, *plus_end;
 	struct diff_options *opt = diff_words->opt;
 	const char *line_prefix;
 
-	if (line[0] != '@' || parse_hunk_header(line, len,
-			&minus_first, &minus_len, &plus_first, &plus_len))
-		return;
-
 	assert(opt);
 	line_prefix = diff_line_prefix(opt);
 
@@ -2074,7 +2072,7 @@ static void diff_words_show(struct diff_words_data *diff_words)
 	xpp.flags = 0;
 	/* as only the hunk header will be parsed, we need a 0-context */
 	xecfg.ctxlen = 0;
-	if (xdi_diff_outf(&minus, &plus, NULL, fn_out_diff_words_aux,
+	if (xdi_diff_outf(&minus, &plus, fn_out_diff_words_aux, NULL,
 			  diff_words, &xpp, &xecfg))
 		die("unable to generate word diff");
 	free(minus.ptr);
diff --git a/xdiff-interface.c b/xdiff-interface.c
index 2622981d97..f2a3d9a577 100644
--- a/xdiff-interface.c
+++ b/xdiff-interface.c
@@ -95,6 +95,9 @@ static int xdiff_outf(void *priv_, mmbuffer_t *mb, int nbuf)
 	struct xdiff_emit_state *priv = priv_;
 	int i;
 
+	if (!priv->line_fn)
+		return 0;
+
 	for (i = 0; i < nbuf; i++) {
 		if (mb[i].ptr[mb[i].size-1] != '\n') {
 			/* Incomplete line */
-- 
2.19.1.1336.g081079ac04
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Message 9 of 14 in “saner xdiff hunk callbacks”
  1. 0/9 saner xdiff hunk callbacksJeff King, Nov 2, 2018
  2. 1/9 xdiff: provide a separate emit callback for hunksJeff King, Nov 2, 2018
  3. 2/9 xdiff-interface: provide a separate consume callback for hunksJeff King, Nov 2, 2018
  4. 3/9 diff: avoid generating unused hunk header linesJeff King, Nov 2, 2018
  5. Stefan BellerNov 2, 2018
  6. Jeff KingNov 2, 2018
  7. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2018
  8. 4/9 diff: discard hunk headers for patch-ids earlierJeff King, Nov 2, 2018
  9. 5/9 diff: use hunk callback for word-diffJeff King, Nov 2, 2018
  10. 6/9 combine-diff: use an xdiff hunk callbackJeff King, Nov 2, 2018
  11. 7/9 diff: convert --check to use a hunk callbackJeff King, Nov 2, 2018
  12. 8/9 range-diff: use a hunk callbackJeff King, Nov 2, 2018
  13. 9/9 xdiff-interface: drop parse_hunk_header()Jeff King, Nov 2, 2018
  14. Junio C HamanoNov 2, 2018

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