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Re: ["BUG"] builtin add-interactive does not honor 'color.diff. frag'

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Nov 6, 2020, 17:03 UTC
Message-ID
<20201106170345.GA174555@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 11:31:32AM -0500, Philippe Blain wrote:
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> I tried the builtin add-interactive for the first time today, 
> and noticed a very minor difference with the Perl version.
> The title says it all.
> 
> Repro:
> 
> # Change the default color
> $ git config color.diff.frag "magenta bold"
> # Compare
> $ git add -p
> # and
> $ git -c add.interactive.useBuiltin=true add -p 
> # I'm on latest master
> $ git --version
> git version 2.29.2.154.g7f7ebe054a

It looks like the code in add-interactive.c uses "fraginfo" instead of "frag". But there's something much more puzzling, which is that it checks color.interactive.frag. AFAIK that has never been a valid config option (there are some color.interactive.* values, but they are all for interactive-specific things).

So something like this seems to go in the right direction (and makes your example work):

diff --git a/add-interactive.c b/add-interactive.c
index a14c0feaa2..1eb69c5160 100644
--- a/add-interactive.c
+++ b/add-interactive.c
@@ -12,10 +12,11 @@
 #include "prompt.h"
 
 static void init_color(struct repository *r, struct add_i_state *s,
+		       const char *section,
 		       const char *slot_name, char *dst,
 		       const char *default_color)
 {
-	char *key = xstrfmt("color.interactive.%s", slot_name);
+	char *key = xstrfmt("color.%s.%s", section, slot_name);
 	const char *value;
 
 	if (!s->use_color)
@@ -40,18 +41,19 @@ void init_add_i_state(struct add_i_state *s, struct repository *r)
 			git_config_colorbool("color.interactive", value);
 	s->use_color = want_color(s->use_color);
 
-	init_color(r, s, "header", s->header_color, GIT_COLOR_BOLD);
-	init_color(r, s, "help", s->help_color, GIT_COLOR_BOLD_RED);
-	init_color(r, s, "prompt", s->prompt_color, GIT_COLOR_BOLD_BLUE);
-	init_color(r, s, "error", s->error_color, GIT_COLOR_BOLD_RED);
-	init_color(r, s, "reset", s->reset_color, GIT_COLOR_RESET);
-	init_color(r, s, "fraginfo", s->fraginfo_color,
+	init_color(r, s, "interactive", "header", s->header_color, GIT_COLOR_BOLD);
+	init_color(r, s, "interactive", "help", s->help_color, GIT_COLOR_BOLD_RED);
+	init_color(r, s, "interactive", "prompt", s->prompt_color, GIT_COLOR_BOLD_BLUE);
+	init_color(r, s, "interactive", "error", s->error_color, GIT_COLOR_BOLD_RED);
+
+	init_color(r, s, "diff", "reset", s->reset_color, GIT_COLOR_RESET);
+	init_color(r, s, "diff", "frag", s->fraginfo_color,
 		   diff_get_color(s->use_color, DIFF_FRAGINFO));
-	init_color(r, s, "context", s->context_color,
+	init_color(r, s, "diff", "context", s->context_color,
 		diff_get_color(s->use_color, DIFF_CONTEXT));
-	init_color(r, s, "old", s->file_old_color,
+	init_color(r, s, "diff", "old", s->file_old_color,
 		diff_get_color(s->use_color, DIFF_FILE_OLD));
-	init_color(r, s, "new", s->file_new_color,
+	init_color(r, s, "diff", "new", s->file_new_color,
 		diff_get_color(s->use_color, DIFF_FILE_NEW));
 
 	FREE_AND_NULL(s->interactive_diff_filter);

but that is missing another thing: for historical reasons we allow both
color.diff.frag and diff.color.frag. TBH, I wouldn't be too sad to see
us drop support for the historical versions in this setting. But it
makes me wonder if we could be reusing the parsing from
git_diff_basic_config(), which handles both cases.

I'm not entirely clear on how add-interactive.c invokes the diff, and
whether it would be unhappy to pick up diff config. But it seems like
this:

diff --git a/builtin/add.c b/builtin/add.c
index a825887c50..47bb6ea10b 100644
--- a/builtin/add.c
+++ b/builtin/add.c
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ static int add_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	return git_default_config(var, value, cb);
+	return git_diff_basic_config(var, value, cb);
 }
 
 static const char embedded_advice[] = N_(

might be the simplest thing (and drop the extra diff-config parsing from
add-interactive.c that I was touching above). It does need to be done in
each program that calls into the add-interactive code though (so
checkout, etc). Obviously it would be easy for init_add_i_state() to
make a similar call, though that may open us up to loading the diff
config twice. I suspect that would probably be OK, but it could lead to
weirdness if there are any multi-valued config options.

-Peff
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  1. Philippe BlainNov 6, 2020
  2. Jeff KingNov 6, 2020
  3. Johannes SchindelinNov 10, 2020
  4. Jeff KingNov 10, 2020
  5. add-interactive.c: use correct names to load color.diff.* configJeff King, Nov 10, 2020
  6. Johannes SchindelinNov 10, 2020
  7. Jeff KingNov 10, 2020
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