Re: [PATCH 0/1] Diff-helper update

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 18, 2005, 20:30 UTC
Message-ID: <7vll6cnup4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505181134470.18337@ppc970.osdl.org>

>>>>> "LT" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

LT> I took the liberty of doing just that. The only subtle issue was that LT> the strbuf functions would consider an empty line to be EOF, which looked LT> wrong and unintentional. Fixing that made the actual diff-helper changes LT> totally trivial, and I can now do LT> git-rev-list HEAD | git-diff-tree -r -v --stdin | ./git-diff-helper -r | less -S LT> and it does the right thing for me.

Thanks for fixing up strbuf.

@@ -136,8 +268,12 @@ int main(int ac, const char **av) {
 		if (sb.eof)
 			break;
 		status = parse_diff_raw_output(sb.buf, av+1, ac-1, reverse);
-		if (status)
-			fprintf(stderr, "cannot parse %s\n", sb.buf);
+		if (status) {
+			flush_renames(av+1, ac-1, reverse);
+			printf("%s%c", sb.buf, line_termination);
+		}
 	}
+
+	flush_renames(av+1, ac-1, reverse);
 	return 0;
 }

I suspect doing something like this might be saner instead,
assuming non raw-diffs come at the end.  

		if (status)
			break;
	}
	flush_renames(av+1, ac-1, reverse);
	if (!sb.eof) {
        	spit out what we have in sb.eof, sendfile ;-) the
                rest of the input to the output.
	}
	return 0;