Junio C HamanoThis updates the mode change strings to be a bit more machine friendly. Although this might go against the spirit of readability for human consumption, these mode bits strings are shown only when unusual things (mode change, file creation and deletion) happens, output normalized for machine consumption would be permissible.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> ---
diff.c | 22 ++++++++++++---------- 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
Show changes to diff.c +12 −10
--- a/diff.c +++ b/diff.c @@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ struct diff_tempfile *temp) { int i, next_at; + const char *git_prefix = "# mode: "; const char *diff_cmd = "diff -L'%s%s' -L'%s%s'"; const char *diff_arg = "'%s' '%s'||:"; /* "||:" is to return 0 */ const char *input_name_sq[2]; @@ -123,17 +124,18 @@ diff_arg, input_name_sq[0], input_name_sq[1]); if (!path1[0][0]) - printf("Created: %s (mode:%s)\n", name, temp[1].mode); + printf("%s. %s %s\n", git_prefix, temp[1].mode, name); else if (!path1[1][0]) - printf("Deleted: %s\n", name); - else if (strcmp(temp[0].mode, temp[1].mode)) { - printf("Mode changed: %s (%s->%s)\n", name, - temp[0].mode, temp[1].mode); - /* Be careful. We do not want to diff between - * symlink and a file. - */ - if (strncmp(temp[0].mode, "120", 3) != - strncmp(temp[1].mode, "120", 3)) + printf("%s%s . %s\n", git_prefix, temp[0].mode, name); + else { + if (strcmp(temp[0].mode, temp[1].mode)) + printf("%s%s %s %s\n", git_prefix, + temp[0].mode, temp[1].mode, name); + + if (strncmp(temp[0].mode, temp[1].mode, 3)) + /* we do not run diff between different kind + * of objects. + */ exit(0); } fflush(NULL);