Re: [PATCH v2] diff: teach --stat to ignore uninteresting modifications

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> On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 5:39 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> > "Matthew Rogers via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > From: Matthew Rogers <mattr94@gmail.com>
> > >
> > > Sometimes when diffing, files may show as being momdified even when
> >
> > momdified? mummified? ah, modified.
> >
> > > there are no interesting diffs to show.  This happens naturally when
> > > using options such as --ignore-space-change.
> >
> > Read the next paragraph and notice that it explains the cases where
> > the patch does not want not to show, and then read the above again
> > to realize that the above does not say anything about what it wants
> > to do to cases the next paragraph does not cover.  It only says such
> > a case often happens when --ignore-space-change is used.
> >
> >         When options like --ignore-space-change is in use, files
> >         with modification can have no interesting textual changes
> >         worth showing.  In such cases, "git diff --stat" shows 0
> >         lines of additions and deletions.  Teach "git diff --stat"
> >         not to show such a path in its output, which would be more
> >         natural.
> >
> > perhaps?
> >
> > > We don't want to prevent
> > > the display  of all files that have 0 effective diffs since they could
> > > be the result of a rename, permission change, or other similar operation
> > > that may still be of interest so we special case additions and deletions
> > > as they are always interesting.
> >
> > Yup.  That makes sense.
>
> I'll send a reroll with the message improved as you suggested, as well
> as updating
>
> >
> > It would be nice if this does not have to be implemented as a list
> > of exceptions, though.  Rather, a more targetted "omit output only
> > in this narrow case" would be nicer, but the check with the mode
> > bits should do at lesat for now.
> >
> > > diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
> > > index f9709de7b4..131903fa3a 100644
> > > --- a/diff.c
> > > +++ b/diff.c
> > > @@ -3153,16 +3153,19 @@ static void show_dirstat_by_line(struct diffstat_t *data, struct diff_options *o
> > >       gather_dirstat(options, &dir, changed, "", 0);
> > >  }
> > >
> > > +static void free_diffstat_file(struct diffstat_file *f)
> > > +{
> > > +     free(f->print_name);
> > > +     free(f->name);
> > > +     free(f->from_name);
> > > +     free(f);
> > > +}
> > > +
> > >  void free_diffstat_info(struct diffstat_t *diffstat)
> > >  {
> > >       int i;
> > > -     for (i = 0; i < diffstat->nr; i++) {
> > > -             struct diffstat_file *f = diffstat->files[i];
> > > -             free(f->print_name);
> > > -             free(f->name);
> > > -             free(f->from_name);
> > > -             free(f);
> > > -     }
> > > +     for (i = 0; i < diffstat->nr; i++)
> > > +             free_diffstat_file(diffstat->files[i]);
> > >       free(diffstat->files);
> > >  }
> > >
> > > @@ -3718,6 +3721,26 @@ static void builtin_diffstat(const char *name_a, const char *name_b,
> > >               if (xdi_diff_outf(&mf1, &mf2, discard_hunk_line,
> > >                                 diffstat_consume, diffstat, &xpp, &xecfg))
> > >                       die("unable to generate diffstat for %s", one->path);
> > > +
> > > +             if (DIFF_FILE_VALID(one) && DIFF_FILE_VALID(two)) {
> > > +                     struct diffstat_file *file =
> > > +                             diffstat->files[diffstat->nr - 1];
> > > +                     /*
> > > +                      * Omit diffstats of modified files where nothing changed.
> > > +                      * Even if !same_contents, this might be the case due to
> > > +                      * ignoring whitespace changes, etc.
> > > +                      *
> > > +                      * But note that we special-case additions and deletions,
> >
> >                          * renames and mode changes without any content changes,
> >
> > > +                      * as adding an empty file, for example is still of interest.
> > > +                      */
> > > +                     if ((p->status == DIFF_STATUS_MODIFIED)
> > > +                             && !file->added
> > > +                             && !file->deleted
> > > +                             && one->mode == two->mode) {
> > > +                             free_diffstat_file(file);
> > > +                             diffstat->nr--;
> > > +                     }
> > > +             }
> > >       }
> > >
> > >       diff_free_filespec_data(one);
> > > diff --git a/t/t4015-diff-whitespace.sh b/t/t4015-diff-whitespace.sh
> > > index 88d3026894..8bdaa0a693 100755
> > > --- a/t/t4015-diff-whitespace.sh
> > > +++ b/t/t4015-diff-whitespace.sh
> > > @@ -789,7 +789,7 @@ test_expect_success 'checkdiff allows new blank lines' '
> > >       git diff --check
> > >  '
> > >
> > > -test_expect_success 'whitespace-only changes not reported' '
> > > +test_expect_success 'whitespace-only changes not reported (diff)' '
> > >       git reset --hard &&
> > >       echo >x "hello world" &&
> > >       git add x &&
> > > @@ -799,10 +799,44 @@ test_expect_success 'whitespace-only changes not reported' '
> > >       test_must_be_empty actual
> > >  '
> > >
> > > -test_expect_success 'whitespace-only changes reported across renames' '
> > > +test_expect_success 'whitespace-only changes not reported (diffstat)' '
> > > +     # reuse state from previous test
> > > +     git diff --stat -b >actual &&
> > > +     test_must_be_empty actual
> > > +'
> > > +
> > > +test_expect_success 'whitespace changes with modification reported (diffstat)' '
> > > +     git reset --hard &&
> > > +     echo >x "hello  world" &&
> > > +     git update-index --chmod=+x x &&
> > > +     git diff --stat --cached -b >actual &&
> > > +     cat <<-EOF >expect &&
> > > +      x | 0
> > > +      1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > > +     EOF
> > > +     test_cmp expect actual
> > > +'
> > > +
> > > +test_expect_success 'whitespace-only changes reported across renames (diffstat)' '
> > >       git reset --hard &&
> > >       for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do echo "$i$i$i$i$i$i"; done >x &&
> > >       git add x &&
> > > +     git commit -m "base" &&
> > > +     sed -e "5s/^/ /" x >z &&
> > > +     git rm x &&
> > > +     git add z &&
> > > +     git diff -w -M --cached --stat >actual &&
> > > +     cat <<-EOF >expect &&
> > > +      x => z | 0
> > > +      1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > > +     EOF
> > > +     test_cmp expect actual
> > > +'
> > > +
> > > +test_expect_success 'whitespace-only changes reported across renames' '
> > > +     git reset --hard HEAD~1 &&
> > > +     for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do echo "$i$i$i$i$i$i"; done >x &&
> > > +     git add x &&
> > >       hash_x=$(git hash-object x) &&
> > >       before=$(git rev-parse --short "$hash_x") &&
> > >       git commit -m "base" &&
> > >
> > > base-commit: 878e727637ec5815ccb3301eb994a54df95b21b8
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> --
> Matthew Rogers