[PATCH v2 0/2] add -p: a couple of hunk splitting fixes
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- Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
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- Sep 15, 2025, 15:29 UTC
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Thanks to Justin and Junio for their comments in V1. Sorry for the long delay in re-rolling - I thought I'd sent these ages ago and then discovered that they weren't upstream and realized I had not, in fact, sent them after-all.
Changes since V1:
* Patch 1: The new hunks created by splitting a hunk are now only marked as "undecided" when WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES is enabled.
* Patch 2: Reworded commit message and added a space before a redirection in the test
V1 Cover Letter:
This series fixes a couple of infelicities when splitting hunks that have already been selected or edited which I noticed a while ago when preparing the test for 'pw/add-patch-with-suppress-blank-empty'.
Phillip Wood (2): add -p: mark split hunks as undecided add-patch: update hunk splitability after editing
Documentation/BreakingChanges.adoc | 5 +++++ add-patch.c | 19 +++++++++++++++- t/t3701-add-interactive.sh | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
base-commit: 4975ec3473b4bc61bc8a3df1ef29d0b7e7959e87 Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1863%2Fphillipwood%2Fadd-p-split-hunks-are-undecided-v2 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1863/phillipwood/add-p-split-hunks-are-undecided-v2 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1863
Range-diff vs v1:
1: 43a0592a46 ! 1: 3e2ec7b37f add -p: mark split hunks as undecided
@@ Metadata
## Commit message ##
add -p: mark split hunks as undecided
- When a hunk is split each of the new hunks inherits whether it is
- selected or not from the original hunk. This means that if a selected
- hunk is split all of the new hunks are selected and the user is not asked
- whether or not they want to select the new hunks. This is unfortunate as
- the user is presumably splitting the original hunk because they only
- want to select some sub-set of it. Fix this by marking all the new hunks
- as "undecided" so that we prompt the user to decide whether to select
- them or not.
+ When a hunk is split, each of the new hunks inherits whether it is
+ selected or not from the original hunk. If a selected hunk is split
+ all of the new hunks are marked as "selected" and the user is only
+ prompted with the first of the split hunks. The user is not asked
+ whether or not they wish to select the rest of the new hunks. This
+ means that if they wish to deselect any of the new hunks apart from
+ the first one they have to navigate back to the hunk they want to
+ deselect before they can deselect it. This is unfortunate as the user
+ is presumably splitting the original hunk because they only want to
+ select some sub-set of it.
+
+ Instead mark all the new hunks as "undecided" so that the user is
+ prompted whether they wish to select each one in turn. In the case
+ where the user only wants to change the selection of the first of
+ the split hunks they will now have to do more work re-selecting the
+ remaining split hunks. However, changing the selection of any of the
+ other newly created hunks is now much simpler as the user no-longer has
+ to navigate back to them in order to change their selected state. Due
+ to concerns that users may be relying on the current behaviour [1]
+ this change is guarded by WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES.
+
+ [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqjz9b6xr1.fsf@gitster.g
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
+ ## Documentation/BreakingChanges.adoc ##
+@@ Documentation/BreakingChanges.adoc: A prerequisite for this change is that the ecosystem is ready to support the
+ "reftable" format. Most importantly, alternative implementations of Git like
+ JGit, libgit2 and Gitoxide need to support it.
+
++* The behavior of "git add -p" has been changed so that splitting a
++ hunk that has already been marked as selected or unselected will now
++ prompt the user to select each of the new hunks created by the
++ split instead of them inheriting their state from the original hunk.
++
+ === Removals
+
+ * Support for grafting commits has long been superseded by git-replace(1).
+
## add-patch.c ##
@@ add-patch.c: static int split_hunk(struct add_p_state *s, struct file_diff *file_diff,
* sizeof(*hunk));
hunk = file_diff->hunk + hunk_index;
hunk->splittable_into = 1;
++#ifdef WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES
+ hunk->use = UNDECIDED_HUNK;
++#endif
memset(hunk + 1, 0, (splittable_into - 1) * sizeof(*hunk));
header = &hunk->header;
@@ add-patch.c: next_hunk_line:
hunk++;
hunk->splittable_into = 1;
-- hunk->use = hunk[-1].use;
++#ifdef WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES
+ hunk->use = UNDECIDED_HUNK;
++#else
+ hunk->use = hunk[-1].use;
++#endif
header = &hunk->header;
header->old_count = header->new_count = context_line_count;
## t/t3701-add-interactive.sh ##
-@@ t/t3701-add-interactive.sh: test_expect_success 'hunk splitting works with diff.suppressBlankEmpty' '
- test_cmp expect actual
- '
+@@ t/t3701-add-interactive.sh: do
+ '
+ done
-+test_expect_success 'splitting previous hunk marks split hunks as undecided' '
++test_expect_success WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES 'splitting previous hunk marks split hunks as undecided' '
+ test_write_lines a " " b c d e f g h i j k >file &&
+ git add file &&
+ test_write_lines x " " b y d e f g h i j x >file &&
2: 35ef0ee2b9 ! 2: 3a831b1a2d add-patch: update hunk splitability after editing
@@ Metadata
## Commit message ##
add-patch: update hunk splitability after editing
- When the users edits a hunk if they change deletion lines to context
- lines or vice versa then the number of hunks that the edited hunk can be
- split into may differ from the unedited hunk and so we need to update
- hunk->splittable_into. In practice users are unlikely to hit this bug as
- it is doubtful that a user who has edited a hunk will split it
- afterwards.
+ If, when the user edits a hunk, they change deletion lines into
+ context lines or vice versa, then the number of hunks that the edited
+ hunk can be split into may differ from the unedited hunk. This means
+ that so we should recalculate `hunk->splittable_into` after the hunk
+ has been edited. In practice users are unlikely to hit this bug as it
+ is doubtful that a user who has edited a hunk will split it afterwards.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
@@ add-patch.c: static ssize_t recount_edited_hunk(struct add_p_state *s, struct hu
## t/t3701-add-interactive.sh ##
-@@ t/t3701-add-interactive.sh: test_expect_success 'splitting previous hunk marks split hunks as undecided' '
+@@ t/t3701-add-interactive.sh: test_expect_success WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES 'splitting previous hunk marks split h
test_cmp expect actual
'
@@ t/t3701-add-interactive.sh: test_expect_success 'splitting previous hunk marks s
+ mv "$1.tmp" "$1"
+ EOF
+
-+ test_write_lines a b c d e f g h i j k l m n>file &&
++ test_write_lines a b c d e f g h i j k l m n >file &&
+ git add file &&
+ test_write_lines A b c d E f g h i j k l M n >file &&
+ (
+ test_set_editor "$(pwd)/fake-editor.sh" &&
-+ test_write_lines e K s j y n y q | git add -p file
++ if test_have_prereq WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES
++ then
++ test_write_lines e K s j y n y q
++ else
++ test_write_lines e K s n K n y q
++ fi | git add -p file
+ ) &&
+ git cat-file blob :file >actual &&
+ test_write_lines a b d e f g h i j k l M n >expect &&-- gitgitgadget