Re: [PATCH v5 10/14] diff-lib: handle index diffs with sparse dirs

>
> On 6/9/2021 4:33 PM, Derrick Stolee wrote:
> > On 6/9/2021 4:11 AM, Elijah Newren wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 11:32 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:
> >>>
> >>> The tree-diff machinery takes two trees, walks them in parallel and
> >>> repeatedly calls either diff_addremove() or diff_change(), which
> >>> appends diff_filepair() to the diff_queue[] structure.  If you see
> >>> an unexpanded tree on the index side, you should be able to pass
> >>> that tree with the subtree you are comparing against to the tree-diff
> >>> machinery to come up with a series of filepairs, and then tweak the
> >>> pathnames of these filepairs (as such a two-tree comparison would be
> >>> comparing two trees representing a single subdirectory of two different
> >>> vintages) before adding them to the diff_queue[] you are collecting
> >>> the index-vs-tree diff, for example.
> >>
> >> Good to know it seems my idea might be reasonable.
> >
> > I agree that this is reasonable. I just didn't look hard enough
> > to find existing code for this, since I found traverse_trees and
> > thought that _was_ the library for this.
>
> This was surprisingly simple, since most of the complicated stuff
> is built into diff_tree_oid() and its use of revs->diffopt. The
> new patch works as shown below the cut-line.
>
> I was incredibly suspicious of how quickly this came together,
> but it passes all the tests I have for it (including Scalar
> functional tests with the commit, checkout, and add integrations).

> I'll send a new version with this patch tomorrow, as well as the
> other recommended edits.
>
> Thanks,
> -Stolee
>
> --- >8 ---
>
>
> diff --git a/diff-lib.c b/diff-lib.c
> index c2ac9250fe9..b631df89343 100644
> --- a/diff-lib.c
> +++ b/diff-lib.c
> @@ -316,6 +316,13 @@ static int get_stat_data(const struct index_state *istate,
>         return 0;
>  }
>
> +static void show_directory(struct rev_info *revs,
> +                          const struct cache_entry *new_dir,
> +                          int added)
> +{
> +       diff_tree_oid(NULL, &new_dir->oid, new_dir->name, &revs->diffopt);
> +}
> +
>  static void show_new_file(struct rev_info *revs,
>                           const struct cache_entry *new_file,
>                           int cached, int match_missing)
> @@ -325,6 +332,11 @@ static void show_new_file(struct rev_info *revs,
>         unsigned dirty_submodule = 0;
>         struct index_state *istate = revs->diffopt.repo->index;
>
> +       if (new_file && S_ISSPARSEDIR(new_file->ce_mode)) {
> +               show_directory(revs, new_file, /*added */ 1);
> +               return;
> +       }
> +
>         /*
>          * New file in the index: it might actually be different in
>          * the working tree.
> @@ -336,6 +348,15 @@ static void show_new_file(struct rev_info *revs,
>         diff_index_show_file(revs, "+", new_file, oid, !is_null_oid(oid), mode, dirty_submodule);
>  }
>
> +static void show_modified_sparse_directory(struct rev_info *revs,
> +                        const struct cache_entry *old_entry,
> +                        const struct cache_entry *new_entry,
> +                        int report_missing,
> +                        int cached, int match_missing)
> +{
> +       diff_tree_oid(&old_entry->oid, &new_entry->oid, new_entry->name, &revs->diffopt);
> +}
> +
>  static int show_modified(struct rev_info *revs,
>                          const struct cache_entry *old_entry,
>                          const struct cache_entry *new_entry,
> @@ -347,6 +368,17 @@ static int show_modified(struct rev_info *revs,
>         unsigned dirty_submodule = 0;
>         struct index_state *istate = revs->diffopt.repo->index;
>
> +       /*
> +        * If both are sparse directory entries, then expand the
> +        * modifications to the file level.
> +        */
> +       if (old_entry && new_entry &&
> +           S_ISSPARSEDIR(old_entry->ce_mode) &&
> +           S_ISSPARSEDIR(new_entry->ce_mode)) {
> +               show_modified_sparse_directory(revs, old_entry, new_entry, report_missing, cached, match_missing);
> +               return 0;
> +       }