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[PATCH] Fix 'No newline...' annotation in rewrite diffs.

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ABAdam Butcher <dev.lists@jessamine.co.uk>
Date
Aug 2, 2012, 21:11 UTC
Message-ID
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 From 01730a741cc5fd7d0a5d8bd0d3df80d12c81fe48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
 From: Adam Butcher <dev.lists@jessamine.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 22:25:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix 'No newline...' annotation in rewrite diffs.

When operating in --break-rewrites (-B) mode on a file with no newline terminator (and assuming --break-rewrites determines that the diff _is_ a rewrite), git diff previously concatenated the indicator comment '\ No newline at end of file' directly to the terminating line rather than on a line of its own. The resulting diff is broken; claiming that the last line actually contains the indicator text. Without -B there is no problem with the same files.

This patch fixes the former case by inserting a newline into the output prior to emitting the indicator comment.

Potential issue: Currently this emits an ASCII 10 newline character only. I'm not sure whether this will be okay on all platforms; it seems to work fine on Windows and GNU at least.

A couple of tests have been added to the rewrite suite to confirm that
the indicator comment is generated on its own line in both plain diff
and rewrite mode.  The latter test fails if the functional part of
this patch (i.e. diff.c) is reverted.
---
  diff.c                  |  1 +
  t/t4022-diff-rewrite.sh | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index 95706a5..77d4e84 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -574,6 +574,7 @@ static void emit_rewrite_lines(struct emit_callback 
*ecb,
  	if (!endp) {
  		const char *plain = diff_get_color(ecb->color_diff,
  						   DIFF_PLAIN);
+		putc('\n', ecb->opt->file);
  		emit_line_0(ecb->opt, plain, reset, '\\',
  			    nneof, strlen(nneof));
  	}
diff --git a/t/t4022-diff-rewrite.sh b/t/t4022-diff-rewrite.sh
index c00a94b..c85154d 100755
--- a/t/t4022-diff-rewrite.sh
+++ b/t/t4022-diff-rewrite.sh
@@ -66,5 +66,32 @@ test_expect_success 'suppress deletion diff with -B 
-D' '
  	grep -v "Linus Torvalds" actual
  '

+# create a file containing numbers with no newline at
+# the end and modify it such that the starting 10 lines
+# are unchanged, the next 101 are rewritten and the last
+# line differs only in that in is terminated by a newline.
+seq 1 10 > seq
+seq 100 +1 200 >> seq
+printf 201 >> seq
+(git add seq; git commit seq -m seq) >/dev/null
+seq 1 10 > seq
+seq 300 -1 200 >> seq
+
+test_expect_success 'no newline at eof is on its own line without -B' 
'
+
+	(git diff seq; true) > res &&
+	grep "^\\\\ No newline at end of file$" res &&
+	grep -v "^.\\+\\\\ No newline at end of file" res &&
+	grep -v "\\\\ No newline at end of file.\\+$" res
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'no newline at eof is on its own line with -B' '
+
+	(git diff -B seq; true) > res &&
+	grep "^\\\\ No newline at end of file$" res &&
+	grep -v "^.\\+\\\\ No newline at end of file" res &&
+	grep -v "\\\\ No newline at end of file.\\+$" res
+'
+
  test_done
-- 
1.7.11.msysgit.0
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  1. Fix 'No newline...' annotation in rewrite diffs.Adam Butcher, Aug 2, 2012
  2. Jeff KingAug 2, 2012
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 2, 2012
  4. Jeff KingAug 2, 2012
  5. Michał KiedrowiczAug 3, 2012
  6. Jeff KingAug 3, 2012
  7. Junio C HamanoAug 3, 2012
  8. Jeff KingAug 3, 2012
  9. tests: Introduce test_seqMichał Kiedrowicz, Aug 3, 2012
  10. Jeff KingAug 3, 2012
  11. Junio C HamanoAug 3, 2012
  12. Jeff KingAug 3, 2012
  13. Michał KiedrowiczAug 3, 2012
  14. Johannes SixtAug 4, 2012
  15. Junio C HamanoAug 4, 2012
  16. Michał KiedrowiczAug 6, 2012
  17. Jeff KingAug 6, 2012
  18. tests: Introduce test_seqMichał Kiedrowicz, Aug 3, 2012
  19. Junio C HamanoAug 3, 2012
  20. Jeff KingAug 3, 2012
  21. Junio C HamanoAug 3, 2012
  22. Michał KiedrowiczAug 4, 2012
  23. Adam ButcherAug 4, 2012
  24. tests: Introduce test_seqMichał Kiedrowicz, Aug 3, 2012
  25. Jeff KingAug 3, 2012
  26. Michał KiedrowiczAug 3, 2012
  27. tests: Introduce test_seqMichał Kiedrowicz, Aug 3, 2012
  28. Jeff KingAug 3, 2012
  29. Adam ButcherAug 2, 2012
  30. Junio C HamanoAug 2, 2012
  31. Adam ButcherAug 2, 2012
  32. Adam ButcherAug 4, 2012
  33. Junio C HamanoAug 5, 2012
  34. Fix '\ No newline...' annotation in rewrite diffsAdam Butcher, Aug 5, 2012

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