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Creating diffs

Subject: Creating diffs

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6 messages between Aug 3, 2006 and Aug 3, 2006.

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Rocco Rutte· Aug 3, 2006, 12:29 UTC · lore
Hi,

when creating a diff between two branches, one particular file needs a manually created/modified diff (the file contains just 1 line). As I cannot exclude files from the diff and create the missing one manually, I tried using the opposite approach: include all wanted.

However, when I do:
   $ git diff source:file dest:file
I get:
   --- a/source:file
   +++ b/source:file

But I'd like to drop the branchname. Can I do that without filtering everything through sed(1)?

Also, I think the diffs are reversed:
   $ git diff master:builtin-rm.c appname:builtin-rm.c
   diff --git a/master:builtin-rm.c b/master:builtin-rm.c
   index 735f3db..92d205a 100644
   --- a/master:builtin-rm.c
   +++ b/master:builtin-rm.c
   @@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ int cmd_rm(int argc, const char **argv, 
           const char **pathspec;
           char *seen;
   
   -       git_set_appname("git-rm");
           git_config(git_default_config);
   
           newfd = hold_lock_file_for_update(&lock_file, get_index_file());
since the appname branch contains the change while master doesn't.
Git version is 1.4.2.rc2 but both "bugs" happen with unpatched 1.3, too.
   bye, Rocco
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Jakub Narebski· Aug 3, 2006, 12:39 UTC · re: Rocco Rutte · lore

Re: Creating diffs

Rocco Rutte wrote:
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> However, when I do:
> 
>    $ git diff source:file dest:file
> 
> I get:
> 
>    --- a/source:file
>    +++ b/source:file
> 
> But I'd like to drop the branchname. Can I do that without filtering 
> everything through sed(1)?

If I remember correctly there were two patches which solved it differently: one gave

   --- a/source:file
   +++ b/dest:file
second (and I guess it is better solution)
   --- a/file
   +++ b/file
Unfortunately they seem unapplied...
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
Jakub Narebski· Aug 3, 2006, 14:47 UTC · re: Jakub Narebski · lore

Re: Creating diffs

Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> Rocco Rutte wrote:
> 
>> However, when I do:
>> 
>>    $ git diff source:file dest:file
>> 
>> I get:
>> 
>>    --- a/source:file
>>    +++ b/source:file
>> 
>> But I'd like to drop the branchname. Can I do that without filtering 
>> everything through sed(1)?
> 
> If I remember correctly there were two patches which solved it 
> differently: 
>
> one gave 
> 
>    --- a/source:file
>    +++ b/dest:file
> 
> second (and I guess it is better solution)
> 
>    --- a/file
>    +++ b/file
> 
> Unfortunately they seem unapplied...
The patches are:
  http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0607/24325.html
  http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0607/24326.html
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
Rocco Rutte· Aug 3, 2006, 14:58 UTC · re: Jakub Narebski · lore

Re: Creating diffs

Hi,
* Jakub Narebski [06-08-03 16:47:49 +0200] wrote:
>The patches are:
>  http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0607/24325.html
>  http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0607/24326.html

Hmm, ok, thanks for the pointer. What made me wonder in the first place is that the format differs from the diff-two-branches case because I assumed the algorithm basically is what I want to do (except it just does not exclude files) (i.e. diff-two-trees := get changed files and for each file, dump diff).

And what about the reverted diff contents? I don't know git too well so it take me quite long to provide a patch...

   bye, Rocco
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Junio C Hamano· Aug 3, 2006, 18:45 UTC · re: Jakub Narebski · lore

Re: Creating diffs

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
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> If I remember correctly there were two patches which solved it differently:
> one gave
>
>    --- a/source:file
>    +++ b/dest:file
>
> second (and I guess it is better solution)
>
>    --- a/file
>    +++ b/file
>
> Unfortunately they seem unapplied...

I think I explained why it was not enough in a neighboring thread. You would need to defeat the rename classification done in diff.c::diff_resolve_rename_copy().

The diff reversal is independent. I think it was introduced by mistake when we switched revision.c::add_pending_object() to use object_array from object_list.

Here is a patch to fix the reversal (swapping of indices for blob[].sha1 in builtin-diff.c), show both names (swapping of indices for blob[].name in builtin-diff.c), and not mistake this as an rename (all the rest). The change touches rather delicate parts of the system, so I am reluctant to do the latter two at this late in the game for 1.4.2, but please do test it and give feedback.

---
diff --git a/builtin-diff.c b/builtin-diff.c
index 48d2fd0..cb4216e 100644
--- a/builtin-diff.c
+++ b/builtin-diff.c
@@ -125,9 +125,6 @@ static int builtin_diff_blobs(struct rev
 			      int argc, const char **argv,
 			      struct blobinfo *blob)
 {
-	/* Blobs: the arguments are reversed when setup_revisions()
-	 * picked them up.
-	 */
 	unsigned mode = canon_mode(S_IFREG | 0644);
 
 	if (argc > 1)
@@ -135,8 +132,8 @@ static int builtin_diff_blobs(struct rev
 
 	stuff_change(&revs->diffopt,
 		     mode, mode,
-		     blob[1].sha1, blob[0].sha1,
-		     blob[0].name, blob[0].name);
+		     blob[0].sha1, blob[1].sha1,
+		     blob[0].name, blob[1].name);
 	diffcore_std(&revs->diffopt);
 	diff_flush(&revs->diffopt);
 	return 0;
diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index 607c357..895c137 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -1786,13 +1786,9 @@ struct diff_filepair *diff_queue(struct 
 				 struct diff_filespec *one,
 				 struct diff_filespec *two)
 {
-	struct diff_filepair *dp = xmalloc(sizeof(*dp));
+	struct diff_filepair *dp = xcalloc(1, sizeof(*dp));
 	dp->one = one;
 	dp->two = two;
-	dp->score = 0;
-	dp->status = 0;
-	dp->source_stays = 0;
-	dp->broken_pair = 0;
 	if (queue)
 		diff_q(queue, dp);
 	return dp;
diff --git a/diffcore-rename.c b/diffcore-rename.c
index 1de8d32..0ec488a 100644
--- a/diffcore-rename.c
+++ b/diffcore-rename.c
@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@ static void record_rename_pair(int dst_i
 	fill_filespec(two, dst->sha1, dst->mode);
 
 	dp = diff_queue(NULL, one, two);
+	dp->renamed_pair = 1;
 	if (!strcmp(src->path, dst->path))
 		dp->score = rename_src[src_index].score;
 	else
diff --git a/diffcore.h b/diffcore.h
index 73c7842..2249bc2 100644
--- a/diffcore.h
+++ b/diffcore.h
@@ -53,11 +53,12 @@ struct diff_filepair {
 	char status; /* M C R N D U (see Documentation/diff-format.txt) */
 	unsigned source_stays : 1; /* all of R/C are copies */
 	unsigned broken_pair : 1;
+	unsigned renamed_pair : 1;
 };
 #define DIFF_PAIR_UNMERGED(p) \
 	(!DIFF_FILE_VALID((p)->one) && !DIFF_FILE_VALID((p)->two))
 
-#define DIFF_PAIR_RENAME(p) (strcmp((p)->one->path, (p)->two->path))
+#define DIFF_PAIR_RENAME(p) ((p)->renamed_pair)
 
 #define DIFF_PAIR_BROKEN(p) \
 	( (!DIFF_FILE_VALID((p)->one) != !DIFF_FILE_VALID((p)->two)) && \

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