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Re: git-filehistory (2nd try at detecting renames)

From
David Ho <davidkwho@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 20, 2005, 20:52 UTC
Message-ID
<4dd15d180510201352m754e70afycc580b0daf66c6d0@mail.gmail.com>

The output is a bit more manageable with this, but still a bit slow. I tried it on git-commit.sh

David

[davidho@penguin git-tutorial]$ cat git-filehistory.perl #!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings; use strict;

sub usage($);

# Sanity checks: my $GIT_DIR = $ENV{'GIT_DIR'} || ".git";

unless ( -d $GIT_DIR && -d $GIT_DIR . "/objects" &&
        -d $GIT_DIR . "/objects/" && -d $GIT_DIR . "/refs") {
        usage("Git repository not found.");
}
usage("") if scalar @ARGV != 1;
my ($file) = @ARGV;
unless (-f $file) {
        usage("git filehistory: '$file' does not exist");
}

open(F,"-|","git-rev-parse",,"--default","HEAD","--revs-only",$file); my $git_rev_args = <F>; chomp ($git_rev_args); close (F);

open(F,"-|","git-rev-list", $git_rev_args); my @commits = <F>; close (F);

my $nextname = $file;
my (@renamecommit, @renamecomment, @renameentry);
for (my $i=0; $i < scalar @commits; $i++)
{
        my $commit = $commits[$i];
        chomp ($commit);
        open(F,"-|","git-diff-tree","-r","-M", $commit)
                or die "Failed to open pipe from git-diff-tree: " . $!;
        my @lines = grep /R\d{3}.+$nextname/, <F>;
        close(F);
        if (scalar @lines >=1) {
                #The file is renamed!
                #my $rc = system
("git-diff-tree","-r","-M","-p","--pretty=medium",$commit);
                open (F,
"-|","git-diff-tree","-r","-M","--pretty=medium",$commit);
                        @renamecommit = <F>;
                        @renamecomment = grep /^[^:]/, @renamecommit;
                        @renameentry = grep /R\d{3}.+$nextname/, @renamecommit;
                        push @renamecomment, @renameentry;
                        foreach (@renamecomment) {
                                print;
                        }
                if ($lines[0] =~ /R\d{3}\t(.+)\t(.+)/) {
                        $nextname = $1;
                }
                close(F);
        }
        else {
                #Not renamed
                #my $rc = system
("git-diff-tree","-r","-m","-p","--pretty=medium",$commit, $nextname);
                my $rc = system
("git-diff-tree","-r","--pretty=medium",$commit, $nextname);
                die "git-diff-tree failed" if $rc;
        }
}
sub usage($) {
        my $s = shift;
        print $s, "\n" if (length $s != 0);
        print <<EOT;
$0 <file>
This script traces renames to find the origin of the file
EOT
        exit(1);
}
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  1. David HoOct 20, 2005

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