[jc: squashed in missing forward decl in userdiff.h found by Ramsay]
Helped-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using the more restrictive oideq() should, in the long run,
give the compiler more opportunities to optimize these
callsites. For now, this conversion should be a complete
noop with respect to the generated code.
The result is also perhaps a little more readable, as it
avoids the "zero is equal" idiom. Since it's so prevalent in
C, I think seasoned programmers tend not to even notice it
anymore, but it can sometimes make for awkward double
negations (e.g., we can drop a few !!oidcmp() instances
here).
This patch was generated almost entirely by the included
coccinelle patch. This mechanical conversion should be
completely safe, because we check explicitly for cases where
oidcmp() is compared to 0, which is what oideq() is doing
under the hood. Note that we don't have to catch "!oidcmp()"
separately; coccinelle's standard isomorphisms make sure the
two are treated equivalently.
I say "almost" because I did hand-edit the coccinelle output
to fix up a few style violations (it mostly keeps the
original formatting, but sometimes unwraps long lines).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This should make these functions easier to find and cache.h less
overwhelming to read.
In particular, this moves:
- read_object_file
- oid_object_info
- write_object_file
As a result, most of the codebase needs to #include object-store.h.
In this patch the #include is only added to files that would fail to
compile otherwise. It would be better to #include wherever
identifiers from the header are used. That can happen later
when we have better tooling for it.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert read_sha1_file to take a pointer to struct object_id and rename
it read_object_file. Do the same for read_sha1_file_extended.
Convert one use in grep.c to use the new function without any other code
change, since the pointer being passed is a void pointer that is already
initialized with a pointer to struct object_id. Update the declaration
and definitions of the modified functions, and apply the following
semantic patch to convert the remaining callers:
@@
expression E1, E2, E3;
@@
- read_sha1_file(E1.hash, E2, E3)
+ read_object_file(&E1, E2, E3)
@@
expression E1, E2, E3;
@@
- read_sha1_file(E1->hash, E2, E3)
+ read_object_file(E1, E2, E3)
@@
expression E1, E2, E3, E4;
@@
- read_sha1_file_extended(E1.hash, E2, E3, E4)
+ read_object_file_extended(&E1, E2, E3, E4)
@@
expression E1, E2, E3, E4;
@@
- read_sha1_file_extended(E1->hash, E2, E3, E4)
+ read_object_file_extended(E1, E2, E3, E4)
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert find_unique_abbrev and find_unique_abbrev_r to each take a
pointer to struct object_id.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rename C++ keyword in order to bring the codebase closer to being able
to be compiled with a C++ compiler.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When calling convert_to_git(), the checksafe parameter defined what
should happen if the EOL conversion (CRLF --> LF --> CRLF) does not
roundtrip cleanly. In addition, it also defined if line endings should
be renormalized (CRLF --> LF) or kept as they are.
checksafe was an safe_crlf enum with these values:
SAFE_CRLF_FALSE: do nothing in case of EOL roundtrip errors
SAFE_CRLF_FAIL: die in case of EOL roundtrip errors
SAFE_CRLF_WARN: print a warning in case of EOL roundtrip errors
SAFE_CRLF_RENORMALIZE: change CRLF to LF
SAFE_CRLF_KEEP_CRLF: keep all line endings as they are
In some cases the integer value 0 was passed as checksafe parameter
instead of the correct enum value SAFE_CRLF_FALSE. That was no problem
because SAFE_CRLF_FALSE is defined as 0.
FALSE/FAIL/WARN are different from RENORMALIZE and KEEP_CRLF. Therefore,
an enum is not ideal. Let's use a integer bit pattern instead and rename
the parameter to conv_flags to make it more generically usable. This
allows us to extend the bit pattern in a subsequent commit.
Reported-By: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Helped-By: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently the check whether to perform pickaxing is done via checking
`diffopt->pickaxe`, which contains the command line argument that we
want to pickaxe for. Soon we'll introduce a new type of pickaxing, that
will not store anything in the `.pickaxe` field, so let's migrate the
check to be dependent on pickaxe_opts.
It is not enough to just replace the check for pickaxe by pickaxe_opts,
because flags might be set, but pickaxing was not requested ('-i').
To cope with that, introduce a mask to check only for the bits indicating
the modes of operation.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the `DIFF_OPT_CLR` macro and instead set the flags directly.
This conversion is done using the following semantic patch:
@@
expression E;
identifier fld;
@@
- DIFF_OPT_CLR(&E, fld)
+ E.flags.fld = 0
@@
type T;
T *ptr;
identifier fld;
@@
- DIFF_OPT_CLR(ptr, fld)
+ ptr->flags.fld = 0
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the `DIFF_OPT_SET` macro and instead set the flags directly.
This conversion is done using the following semantic patch:
@@
expression E;
identifier fld;
@@
- DIFF_OPT_SET(&E, fld)
+ E.flags.fld = 1
@@
type T;
T *ptr;
identifier fld;
@@
- DIFF_OPT_SET(ptr, fld)
+ ptr->flags.fld = 1
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the `DIFF_OPT_TST` macro and instead access the flags directly.
This conversion is done using the following semantic patch:
@@
expression E;
identifier fld;
@@
- DIFF_OPT_TST(&E, fld)
+ E.flags.fld
@@
type T;
T *ptr;
identifier fld;
@@
- DIFF_OPT_TST(ptr, fld)
+ ptr->flags.fld
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert the declaration and definition of resolve_gitlink_ref to use
struct object_id and apply the following semantic patch:
@@
expression E1, E2, E3;
@@
- resolve_gitlink_ref(E1, E2, E3.hash)
+ resolve_gitlink_ref(E1, E2, &E3)
@@
expression E1, E2, E3;
@@
- resolve_gitlink_ref(E1, E2, E3->hash)
+ resolve_gitlink_ref(E1, E2, E3)
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert find_paths_generic and find_paths_multitree to use struct
object_id.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since this structure handles an array of object IDs, rename it to struct
oid_array. Also rename the accessor functions and the initialization
constant.
This commit was produced mechanically by providing non-Documentation
files to the following Perl one-liners:
perl -pi -E 's/struct sha1_array/struct oid_array/g'
perl -pi -E 's/\bsha1_array_/oid_array_/g'
perl -pi -E 's/SHA1_ARRAY_INIT/OID_ARRAY_INIT/g'
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert the callers to pass struct object_id by changing the function
declaration and definition and applying the following semantic patch:
@@
expression E1, E2;
@@
- sha1_array_append(E1, E2.hash)
+ sha1_array_append(E1, &E2)
@@
expression E1, E2;
@@
- sha1_array_append(E1, E2->hash)
+ sha1_array_append(E1, E2)
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make the internal storage for struct sha1_array use an array of struct
object_id internally. Update the users of this struct which inspect its
internals.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since we're modifying this function anyway, it's a good time
to update it to the more modern "struct oid". We can also
drop some of the magic numbers in favor of GIT_SHA1_HEXSZ,
along with some descriptive comments.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The word "align" describes how the function actually differs
from find_unique_abbrev, and will make it less confusing
when we add more diff-specific abbrevation functions that do
not do this alignment.
Since this is a globally available function, let's also move
its descriptive comment to the header file, where we
typically document function interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that this struct's sha1 member is called "oid", update the comment
and the sha1_valid member to be called "oid_valid" instead. The
following Coccinelle semantic patch was used to implement this, followed
by the transformations in object_id.cocci:
@@
struct diff_filespec o;
@@
- o.sha1_valid
+ o.oid_valid
@@
struct diff_filespec *p;
@@
- p->sha1_valid
+ p->oid_valid
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert struct diff_filespec's sha1 member to use a struct object_id
called "oid" instead. The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used
to implement this, followed by the transformations in object_id.cocci:
@@
struct diff_filespec o;
@@
- o.sha1
+ o.oid.hash
@@
struct diff_filespec *p;
@@
- p->sha1
+ p->oid.hash
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The function takes a pointer to a pathspec structure, and releases
the resources held by it, but does not free() the structure itself.
Such a function should be called "clear", not "free".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If our size computation overflows size_t, we may allocate a
much smaller buffer than we expected and overflow it. It's
probably impossible to trigger an overflow in most of these
sites in practice, but it is easy enough convert their
additions and multiplications into overflow-checking
variants. This may be fixing real bugs, and it makes
auditing the code easier.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using FLEX_ARRAY macros reduces the amount of manual
computation size we have to do. It also ensures we don't
overflow size_t, and it makes sure we write the same number
of bytes that we allocated.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We frequently allocate strings as xmalloc(len + 1), where
the extra 1 is for the NUL terminator. This can be done more
simply with xmallocz, which also checks for integer
overflow.
There's no case where switching xmalloc(n+1) to xmallocz(n)
is wrong; the result is the same length, and malloc made no
guarantees about what was in the buffer anyway. But in some
cases, we can stop manually placing NUL at the end of the
allocated buffer. But that's only safe if it's clear that
the contents will always fill the buffer.
In each case where this patch does so, I manually examined
the control flow, and I tried to err on the side of caution.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Each of these cases can be converted to use ALLOC_ARRAY or
REALLOC_ARRAY, which has two advantages:
1. It automatically checks the array-size multiplication
for overflow.
2. It always uses sizeof(*array) for the element-size,
so that it can never go out of sync with the declared
type of the array.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert all instances of get_object_hash to use an appropriate reference
to the hash member of the oid member of struct object. This provides no
functional change, as it is essentially a macro substitution.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Convert most instances where the sha1 member of struct object is
dereferenced to use get_object_hash. Most instances that are passed to
functions that have versions taking struct object_id, such as
get_sha1_hex/get_oid_hex, or instances that can be trivially converted
to use struct object_id instead, are not converted.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
When we call into xdiff to perform a diff, we generally lose
the return code completely. Typically by ignoring the return
of our xdi_diff wrapper, but sometimes we even propagate
that return value up and then ignore it later. This can
lead to us silently producing incorrect diffs (e.g., "git
log" might produce no output at all, not even a diff header,
for a content-level diff).
In practice this does not happen very often, because the
typical reason for xdiff to report failure is that it
malloc() failed (it uses straight malloc, and not our
xmalloc wrapper). But it could also happen when xdiff
triggers one our callbacks, which returns an error (e.g.,
outf() in builtin/rerere.c tries to report a write failure
in this way). And the next patch also plans to add more
failure modes.
Let's notice an error return from xdiff and react
appropriately. In most of the diff.c code, we can simply
die(), which matches the surrounding code (e.g., that is
what we do if we fail to load a file for diffing in the
first place). This is not that elegant, but we are probably
better off dying to let the user know there was a problem,
rather than simply generating bogus output.
We could also just die() directly in xdi_diff, but the
callers typically have a bit more context, and can provide a
better message (and if we do later decide to pass errors up,
we're one step closer to doing so).
There is one interesting case, which is in diff_grep(). Here
if we cannot generate the diff, there is nothing to match,
and we silently return "no hits". This is actually what the
existing code does already, but we make it a little more
explicit.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The latter is a much more descriptive name (and we support
"color.diff.context" now). This also updates the name of any
local variables which were used to store the color.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Also, convert a constant to GIT_SHA1_HEXSZ.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we do a combined diff, we individually diff against
each parent, and then use intersect_paths to do a parallel
walk through the sorted results and come up with a final
list of interesting paths.
The sort order here is that returned by the diffs, which
means it is in git's tree-order which sorts sub-trees as if
their paths have "/" at the end. When we do our parallel
walk, we need to use a comparison function which provides
the same order.
Since 8518ff8 (combine-diff: optimize combine_diff_path sets
intersection, 2014-01-20), we use a simple strcmp to
compare the pathnames, and get this wrong. It's somewhat
hard to trigger because normally a diff does not produce
tree entries at all, and therefore the sort order is the
same as a strcmp. However, if the "-t" option is used with
the diff, then we will produce diff_filepairs for both trees
and files.
We can use base_name_compare to do the comparison, just as
the tree-diff code does. Even though what we have are not
technically base names (they are full paths within the
tree), the end result is the same (we do not care about
interior slashes at all, only about the final character).
However, since we do not have the length of each path
stored, we take a slight shortcut: if neither of the entries
is a sub-tree then the comparison is equivalent to a strcmp.
This lets us skip the extra strlen calls in the common case
without having to reimplement base_name_compare from
scratch.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the user provides an empty format with "--format=", we
end up putting in extra whitespace that the user cannot
prevent. This comes from two places:
1. If the format is missing a terminating newline, we add
one automatically. This makes sense for --format=%h, but
not for a truly empty format.
2. We add an extra newline between the pretty-printed
format and a diff or diffstat. If the format is empty,
there's no point in doing so if there's nothing to
separate.
With this patch, one can get a diff with no other cruft out
of "diff-tree --format= $commit".
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When git show -s is called for merge commit it prints extra newline
after any merge commit. This differs from output for commits with one
parent. Fix it by more thorough checking that diff output is disabled.
The code in question exists since commit 3969cf7db1. The additional
newline is really needed for cases when patch is requested, test
t4013-diff-various.sh contains cases which can demonstrate behavior when
the condition is restricted further.
Tests:
Added merge commit to 'set up a bit of history' case in t7007-show.sh to
cover the fix.
Existing tests are updated to demonstrate the new behaviour. Earlier,
the tests that used "git show -s --pretty=format:%s", even though
"--pretty=format:%s" calls for item separator semantics and does not ask
for the terminating newline after the last item, expected the output to
end with such a newline. They were relying on the buggy behaviour. Use
of "--format=%s", which is equivalent to "--pretty=tformat:%s" that asks
for a terminating newline after each item, is a more realistic way to
use the command.
In the test 'merge log messages' the expected data is changed, because
it was explicitly listing the extra newline. Also the msg.nologff and
msg.nolognoff expected files are replaced by one msg.nolog, because they
were diffing because of the bug, and now there should be no difference.
Signed-off-by: Max Kirillov <max@max630.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As was recently shown in "combine-diff: optimize
combine_diff_path sets intersection", combine-diff runs very slowly. In
that commit we optimized paths sets intersection, but that accounted
only for ~ 25% of the slowness, and as my tracing showed, for linux.git
v3.10..v3.11, for merges a lot of time is spent computing
diff(commit,commit^2) just to only then intersect that huge diff to
almost small set of files from diff(commit,commit^1).
In previous commit, we described the problem in more details, and
reworked the diff tree-walker to be general one - i.e. to work in
multiple parent case too. Now is the time to take advantage of it for
finding paths for combine diff.
The implementation is straightforward - if we know, we can get generated
diff paths directly, and at present that means no diff filtering or
rename/copy detection was requested(*), we can call multiparent tree-walker
directly and get ready paths.
(*) because e.g. at present, all diffcore transformations work on
diff_filepair queues, but in the future, that limitation can be
lifted, if filters would operate directly on combine_diff_paths.
Timings for `git log --raw --no-abbrev --no-renames` without `-c` ("git log")
and with `-c` ("git log -c") and with `-c --merges` ("git log -c --merges")
before and after the patch are as follows:
linux.git v3.10..v3.11
log log -c log -c --merges
before 1.9s 16.4s 15.2s
after 1.9s 2.4s 1.1s
The result stayed the same.
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move code for finding paths for which diff(commit,parent_i) is not-empty
for all parents to separate function - at present we have generic (and
slow) code for this job, which translates 1 n-parent problem to n
1-parent problems and then intersect results, and will be adding another
limited, but faster, paths scanning implementation in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Judging from sample outputs and tests nothing changes in diff -c output,
and this change will help later patches, when we'll be refactoring paths
scanning into its own function with several variants - the
show_log_first logic / code will stay common to all of them.
NOTE: only now we have to take care to explicitly not show anything if
parents array is empty, as in fact there are some clients in Git code,
which calls diff_tree_combined() in such a way.
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Linus once said:
I actually wish more people understood the really core low-level
kind of coding. Not big, complex stuff like the lockless name
lookup, but simply good use of pointers-to-pointers etc. For
example, I've seen too many people who delete a singly-linked
list entry by keeping track of the "prev" entry, and then to
delete the entry, doing something like
if (prev)
prev->next = entry->next;
else
list_head = entry->next;
and whenever I see code like that, I just go "This person
doesn't understand pointers". And it's sadly quite common.
People who understand pointers just use a "pointer to the entry
pointer", and initialize that with the address of the
list_head. And then as they traverse the list, they can remove
the entry without using any conditionals, by just doing a "*pp =
entry->next".
Applying that simplification lets us lose 7 lines from this function
even while adding 2 lines of comment.
I was tempted to squash this into the original commit, but because
the benchmarking described in the commit log is without this
simplification, I decided to keep it a separate follow-up patch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The field was used in order to speed-up name comparison and also to
mark removed paths by setting it to 0.
Because the updated code does significantly less strcmp and also
just removes paths from the list and free right after we know a path
will not be needed, it is not needed anymore.
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When generating combined diff, for each commit, we intersect diff
paths from diff(parent_0,commit) to diff(parent_i,commit) comparing
all paths pairs, i.e. doing it the quadratic way. That is correct,
but could be optimized.
Paths come from trees in sorted (= tree) order, and so does diff_tree()
emits resulting paths in that order too. Now if we look at diffcore
transformations, all of them, except diffcore_order, preserve resulting
path ordering:
- skip_stat_unmatch, grep, pickaxe, filter
-- just skip elements -> order stays preserved
- break -- just breaks diff for a path, adding path
dup after the path -> order stays preserved
- detect rename/copy -- resulting paths are emitted sorted
(verified empirically)
So only diffcore_order changes diff paths ordering.
But diffcore_order meaning affects only presentation - i.e. only how to
show the diff, so we could do all the internal computations without
paths reordering, and order only resultant paths set. This is faster,
since, if we know two paths sets are all ordered, their intersection
could be done in linear time.
This patch does just that.
Timings for `git log --raw --no-abbrev --no-renames` without `-c` ("git log")
and with `-c` ("git log -c") before and after the patch are as follows:
linux.git v3.10..v3.11
log log -c
before 1.9s 20.4s
after 1.9s 16.6s
navy.git (private repo)
log log -c
before 0.83s 15.6s
after 0.83s 2.1s
P.S.
I think linux.git case is sped up not so much as the second one, since
in navy.git, there are more exotic (subtree, etc) merges.
P.P.S.
My tracing showed that the rest of the time (16.6s vs 1.9s) is usually
spent in computing huge diffs from commit to second parent. Will try to
deal with it, if I'll have time.
P.P.P.S.
For combine_diff_path, ->len is not needed anymore - will remove it in
the next noisy cleanup path, to maintain good signal/noise ratio here.
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using pathspec filtering in combination with diff-based log
output, parent simplification happens before the diff is computed.
The diff is therefore against the *simplified* parents.
This works okay, arguably by accident, in the normal case:
simplification reduces to one parent as long as the commit is TREESAME
to it. So the simplified parent of any given commit must have the
same tree contents on the filtered paths as its true (unfiltered)
parent.
However, --full-diff breaks this guarantee, and indeed gives pretty
spectacular results when comparing the output of
git log --graph --stat ...
git log --graph --full-diff --stat ...
(--graph internally kicks in parent simplification, much like
--parents).
To fix it, store a copy of the parent list before simplification (in a
slab) whenever --full-diff is in effect. Then use the stored parents
instead of the simplified ones in the commit display code paths. The
latter do not actually check for --full-diff to avoid duplicated code;
they just grab the original parents if save_parents() has not been
called for this revision walk.
For ordinary commits it should be obvious that this is the right thing
to do.
Merge commits are a bit subtle. Observe that with default
simplification, merge simplification is an all-or-nothing decision:
either the merge is TREESAME to one parent and disappears, or it is
different from all parents and the parent list remains intact.
Redundant parents are not pruned, so the existing code also shows them
as a merge.
So if we do show a merge commit, the parent list just consists of the
rewrite result on each parent. Running, e.g., --cc on this in
--full-diff mode is not very useful: if any commits were skipped, some
hunks will disagree with all sides of the merge (with one side,
because commits were skipped; with the others, because they didn't
have those changes in the first place). This triggers --cc showing
these hunks spuriously.
Therefore I believe that even for merge commits it is better to show
the diffs wrt. the original parents.
Reported-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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