Add a performance comparison test of grep regex engines given fixed
strings.
The current logic in compile_regexp() ignores the engine parameter and
uses kwset() to search for these, so this test shows no difference
between engines right now:
$ GIT_PERF_REPEAT_COUNT=10 GIT_PERF_LARGE_REPO=~/g/linux ./run p7821-grep-engines-fixed.sh
[...]
Test this tree
------------------------------------------------
7821.1: fixed grep int 0.56(1.67+0.68)
7821.2: basic grep int 0.57(1.70+0.57)
7821.3: extended grep int 0.59(1.76+0.51)
7821.4: perl grep int 1.08(1.71+0.55)
7821.6: fixed grep uncommon 0.23(0.55+0.50)
7821.7: basic grep uncommon 0.24(0.55+0.50)
7821.8: extended grep uncommon 0.26(0.55+0.52)
7821.9: perl grep uncommon 0.24(0.58+0.47)
7821.11: fixed grep æ 0.36(1.30+0.42)
7821.12: basic grep æ 0.36(1.32+0.40)
7821.13: extended grep æ 0.38(1.30+0.42)
7821.14: perl grep æ 0.35(1.24+0.48)
Only when run with -i via GIT_PERF_7821_GREP_OPTS=' -i' do we avoid
avoid going through the same kwset.[ch] codepath, see the "Even when
-F..." comment in grep.c. This only kicks for the non-ASCII case:
$ GIT_PERF_REPEAT_COUNT=10 GIT_PERF_LARGE_REPO=~/g/linux GIT_PERF_7821_GREP_OPTS=' -i' ./run p7821-grep-engines-fixed.sh
[...]
Test this tree
---------------------------------------------------
7821.1: fixed grep -i int 0.62(2.10+0.57)
7821.2: basic grep -i int 0.68(1.90+0.61)
7821.3: extended grep -i int 0.78(1.94+0.57)
7821.4: perl grep -i int 0.98(1.78+0.74)
7821.6: fixed grep -i uncommon 0.24(0.44+0.64)
7821.7: basic grep -i uncommon 0.25(0.56+0.54)
7821.8: extended grep -i uncommon 0.27(0.62+0.45)
7821.9: perl grep -i uncommon 0.24(0.59+0.49)
7821.11: fixed grep -i æ 0.30(0.96+0.39)
7821.12: basic grep -i æ 0.27(0.92+0.44)
7821.13: extended grep -i æ 0.28(0.90+0.46)
7821.14: perl grep -i æ 0.28(0.74+0.49)
I'm planning to change how fixed-string searching happens. This test
gives a baseline for comparing performance before & after any such
change.
See commit ("perf: add a comparison test of grep regex engines",
2017-04-19) for details on the machine the above test run was executed
on.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a very basic performance comparison test comparing the POSIX
basic, extended and perl engines.
In theory the "basic" and "extended" engines should be implemented
using the same underlying code with a slightly different pattern
parser, but some implementations may not do this. Jump through some
slight hoops to test both, which is worthwhile since "basic" is the
default.
Running this on an i7 3.4GHz Linux 4.9.0-2 Debian testing against a
checkout of linux.git & latest upstream PCRE, both PCRE and git
compiled with -O3 using gcc 7.1.1:
$ GIT_PERF_REPEAT_COUNT=10 GIT_PERF_LARGE_REPO=~/g/linux ./run p7820-grep-engines.sh
[...]
Test this tree
---------------------------------------------------------------
7820.1: basic grep 'how.to' 0.34(1.24+0.53)
7820.2: extended grep 'how.to' 0.33(1.23+0.45)
7820.3: perl grep 'how.to' 0.31(1.05+0.56)
7820.5: basic grep '^how to' 0.32(1.24+0.42)
7820.6: extended grep '^how to' 0.33(1.20+0.44)
7820.7: perl grep '^how to' 0.57(2.67+0.42)
7820.9: basic grep '[how] to' 0.51(2.16+0.45)
7820.10: extended grep '[how] to' 0.49(2.20+0.43)
7820.11: perl grep '[how] to' 0.56(2.60+0.43)
7820.13: basic grep '\(e.t[^ ]*\|v.ry\) rare' 0.66(3.25+0.40)
7820.14: extended grep '(e.t[^ ]*|v.ry) rare' 0.65(3.19+0.46)
7820.15: perl grep '(e.t[^ ]*|v.ry) rare' 1.05(5.74+0.34)
7820.17: basic grep 'm\(ú\|u\)lt.b\(æ\|y\)te' 0.34(1.28+0.47)
7820.18: extended grep 'm(ú|u)lt.b(æ|y)te' 0.34(1.38+0.38)
7820.19: perl grep 'm(ú|u)lt.b(æ|y)te' 0.39(1.56+0.44)
Options can also be passed to git-grep via the GIT_PERF_7820_GREP_OPTS
environment variable. There are various modes such as "-v" that have
very different performance profiles, but handling the combinatorial
explosion of testing all those options would make this script much
more complex and harder to maintain. Instead just add the ability to
do one-shot runs with arbitrary options, e.g.:
$ GIT_PERF_REPEAT_COUNT=10 GIT_PERF_LARGE_REPO=~/g/linux GIT_PERF_7820_GREP_OPTS=" -i" ./run p7820-grep-engines.sh
[...]
Test this tree
------------------------------------------------------------------
7820.1: basic grep -i 'how.to' 0.49(1.72+0.38)
7820.2: extended grep -i 'how.to' 0.46(1.64+0.42)
7820.3: perl grep -i 'how.to' 0.44(1.45+0.45)
7820.5: basic grep -i '^how to' 0.47(1.76+0.38)
7820.6: extended grep -i '^how to' 0.47(1.70+0.42)
7820.7: perl grep -i '^how to' 0.65(2.72+0.37)
7820.9: basic grep -i '[how] to' 0.86(3.64+0.42)
7820.10: extended grep -i '[how] to' 0.84(3.62+0.46)
7820.11: perl grep -i '[how] to' 0.73(3.06+0.39)
7820.13: basic grep -i '\(e.t[^ ]*\|v.ry\) rare' 1.63(8.13+0.36)
7820.14: extended grep -i '(e.t[^ ]*|v.ry) rare' 1.64(8.01+0.44)
7820.15: perl grep -i '(e.t[^ ]*|v.ry) rare' 1.44(6.88+0.44)
7820.17: basic grep -i 'm\(ú\|u\)lt.b\(æ\|y\)te' 0.66(2.67+0.44)
7820.18: extended grep -i 'm(ú|u)lt.b(æ|y)te' 0.66(2.67+0.43)
7820.19: perl grep -i 'm(ú|u)lt.b(æ|y)te' 0.59(2.31+0.37)
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If we successfully parse a symref value like
"HEAD:refs/heads/master", we add the result to a string
list. But because the string list is marked
STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP, the string list code will make a copy
of the string and add the copy.
This patch fixes it by adding the entry with
string_list_append_nodup(), which lets the string list take
ownership of our newly allocated string. There are two
alternatives that seem like they would work, but aren't the
right solution.
The first is to initialize the list with the "NODUP"
initializer. That would avoid the copy, but then the string
list would not realize that it owns the strings. When we
eventually call string_list_clear(), it would not free the
strings, causing a leak.
The second option would be to use the normal
string_list_append(), but free the local copy in our
function. We can't do this because the local copy actually
contains _two_ strings; the symref name and its target. We
point to the target pointer via the "util" field, and its
memory must last as long as the string list does.
You may also wonder whether it's safe to ever free the local
copy, since the target points into it. The answer is yes,
because we duplicate it in annotaate_refs_with_symref_info
before clearing the string list.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On Windows, the remote repository name in, e.g., `git fetch foo\bar`
is clearly not a nickname for a configured remote repository. However,
the function valid_remote_nick() does not account for backslashes.
Use is_dir_sep() to check for both slashes and backslashes on Windows.
This was discovered while playing with Duy's patches that warn after
fopen() failures. The functions that read the branches and remotes
files are protected by a valid_remote_nick() check. Without this
change, a Windows style absolute path is incorrectly regarded as
nickname and is concatenated to a prefix and used with fopen(). This
triggers warnings because a colon in a path name is not allowed:
C:\Temp\gittest>git fetch C:\Temp\gittest
warning: unable to access '.git/remotes/C:\Temp\gittest': Invalid argument
warning: unable to access '.git/branches/C:\Temp\gittest': Invalid argument
From C:\Temp\gittest
* branch HEAD -> FETCH_HEAD
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The origin, entry, and scoreboard structures are core to the blame
interface and need to be exposed for blame functionality.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Smith <whydoubt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Create function that populates a blame_entry and prepends it to a list.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Smith <whydoubt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Create function that completes setting up blame_scoreboard structure.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Smith <whydoubt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Create function that initializes blame_scoreboard to default values.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Smith <whydoubt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Either prepare_initial or prepare_final is used to determine which
commit is marked as 'final'. Call the underlying methods directly to
make this more clear.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Smith <whydoubt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The new method's interface is marginally cleaner than blame_sort, and
will avoid the need to expose the compare_blame_final method.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Smith <whydoubt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow the interface user to decide how to handle a progress update.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Smith <whydoubt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When iterating over references, reference priming is used to make sure
that loose references are read into the ref-cache before packed
references, to avoid races. It used to be that the prefix passed to
reference iterators almost always ended in `/`, for example
`refs/heads/`. In that case, the priming code would read all loose
references under `find_containing_dir("refs/heads/")`, which is
"refs/heads/". That's just what we want.
But now that `ref-filter` knows how to pass refname prefixes to
`for_each_fullref_in()`, the prefix might come from user input; for
example,
git for-each-ref refs/heads
Since the argument doesn't include a trailing slash, the reference
iteration code would prime all of the loose references under
`find_containing_dir("refs/heads")`, which is "refs/". Thus we would
unnecessarily read tags, remote-tracking references, etc., when the
user is only interested in branches.
It is a bit awkward to get around this problem. We can't just append a
slash to the argument, because we don't know ab initio whether an
argument like `refs/tags/release` corresponds to a single tag or to a
directory containing tags.
Moreover, until now a `prefix_ref_iterator` was used to make the final
decision about which references fall within the prefix (the
`cache_ref_iterator` only did a rough cut). This is also inefficient,
because the `prefix_ref_iterator` can't know, for example, that while
you are in a subdirectory that is completely within the prefix, you
don't have to do the prefix check.
So:
* Move the responsibility for doing the prefix check directly to
`cache_ref_iterator`. This means that `cache_ref_iterator_begin()`
never has to wrap its return value in a `prefix_ref_iterator`.
* Teach `cache_ref_iterator_begin()` (and `prime_ref_dir()`) to be
stricter about what they iterate over and what directories they
prime.
* Teach `cache_ref_iterator` to keep track of whether the current
`cache_ref_iterator_level` is fully within the prefix. If so, skip
the prefix checks entirely.
The main benefit of these optimizations is for loose references, since
packed references are always read all at once.
Note that after this change, `prefix_ref_iterator` is only ever used
for its trimming feature and not for its "prefix" feature. But I'm not
ripping out the latter yet, because it might be useful for another
patch series that I'm working on.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow the interface user to decide how to handle a failed sanity check,
whether that be to output with the current state or to do nothing.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Smith <whydoubt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The no_whole_file_rename flag is used in parts of blame that are being
moved to libgit, and should be accessible via the scoreboard structure.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Smith <whydoubt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The xdl_opts flags are used in parts of blame that are being moved to
libgit, and should be accessible via the scoreboard structure.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Smith <whydoubt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The show_root flag is used in parts of blame that are being moved to
libgit, and should be accessible via the scoreboard structure.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Smith <whydoubt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The reverse flag is used in parts of blame that are being moved to
libgit, and should be accessible via the scoreboard structure.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Smith <whydoubt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The argument from --contents is used in parts of blame that are being
moved to libgit, and should be accessible via the scoreboard structure.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Smith <whydoubt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Copy and move score thresholds are used in parts of blame that are being
moved to libgit, and should be accessible via the scoreboard structure.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Smith <whydoubt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Statistic counters are used in parts of blame that are being moved to
libgit, and should be accessible via the scoreboard structure.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Smith <whydoubt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Functions that will be publicly exposed should have names that better
reflect what they are a part of.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Smith <whydoubt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Functions that will be publicly exposed should have names that better
reflect what they are a part of.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Smith <whydoubt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Functions that will be publicly exposed should have names that better
reflect what they are a part of.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Smith <whydoubt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Functions related to blame_origin that will be publicly exposed should
have names that better reflect what they are a part of.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Smith <whydoubt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The scoreboard structure is core to the blame interface. Since
scoreboard will become more exposed, rename it to blame_scoreboard to
clarify what it is a part of.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Smith <whydoubt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The origin structure is core to the blame interface. Since origin will
become more exposed, rename it to blame_origin to clarify what it is a
part of.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Smith <whydoubt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
textconv_object is used in places other than blame.c and should be moved
to a more appropriate location. Other textconv related functions are
located in diff.c so that seems as good a place as any.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Smith <whydoubt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With commit 21666f1 ("convert object type handling from a string to a
number", 2007-02-26), there was no longer a need for blame.c to include
blob.h but it was not removed.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Smith <whydoubt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we diff a blob against a working tree file like:
git diff HEAD:Makefile Makefile
we always use the working tree filename for both sides of
the diff. In most cases that's fine, as the two would be the
same anyway, as above. And until recently, we used the
"name" for the blob, not the path, which would have the
messy "HEAD:" on the beginning.
But when they don't match, like:
git diff HEAD:old_path new_path
it makes sense to show both names.
This patch uses the blob's path field if it's available, and
otherwise falls back to using the filename (in preference to
the blob's name, which is likely to be garbage like a raw
sha1).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There's a subtle distinction between "name" and "path" for a
blob that we resolve: the name is what the user told us on
the command line, and the path is what we traversed when
finding the blob within a tree (if we did so).
When we diff blobs directly, we use "name", but "path" is
more likely to be useful to the user (it will find the
correct .gitattributes, and give them a saner diff header).
We still have to fall back to using the name for some cases
(i.e., any blob reference that isn't of the form tree:path).
That's the best we can do in such a case.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The stuff_change() function makes diff_filespecs out of
blobs. The term we generally use for filespecs is "path",
not "name", so let's be consistent here. That will make
things less confusing when the next patch starts caring
about the path/name distinction inside the pending object
array.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When diffing blobs directly, git-diff picks the blobs out of
the rev_info's pending array and copies the relevant bits to
a custom "struct blobinfo". But the pending array entry
already has all of this information (and more, which we'll
use in future patches). Let's just pass the original entry
instead.
In practice, these two blobs are probably adjacent in the
revs->pending array, and we could just pass the whole array.
But the current code is careful to pick each blob out
separately and put it into another array, so we'll continue
to do so and make our own array-of-pointers.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the revision parser sees an argument like tree:path, we
parse it down to the correct blob (or tree), but throw away
the "path" portion. Let's ask get_sha1_with_context() to
record it, and pass it along in the pending array.
This will let programs like git-diff which rely on the
revision-parser show more accurate paths.
Note that the implementation is a little tricky; we have to
make sure we free oc.path in all code paths. For handle_dotdot(),
we can piggy-back on the existing cleanup-wrapper pattern.
The real work happens in handle_dotdot_1(), but the
handle_dotdot() wrapper makes sure that the path is freed no
matter how we exit the function (and for that reason we make
sure that the object_context struct is zero'd, so if we fail
to even get to the get_sha1_with_context() call, we just end
up calling free(NULL)).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "a..b" revision syntax was designed to handle commits,
so it doesn't bother to record any mode we find while
traversing a "tree:path" endpoint. These days "git diff" can
diff blobs using either "a:path..b:path" (with dots) or
"a:path b:path" (without), but the two behave
inconsistently, as the with-dots version fails to notice the
mode.
Let's teach the dot-dot range parser to record modes; it
doesn't cost us anything, and it makes this case work.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-diff command can directly compare two blobs (or a
blob and a file), but we don't test this at all. Let's add
some basic tests that reveal a few problems.
There are basically four interesting inputs:
1. sha1 against sha1 (where diff has no information beyond
the contents)
2. tree:path against tree:path (where it can get
information via get_sha1_with_context)
3. Same as (2), but using the ".." range syntax
4. tree:path against a filename
And beyond generating a sane diff, we care about a few
little bits: which paths they show in the diff header, and
whether they correctly pick up a mode change.
They should all be able to show a mode except for (1),
though note that case (3) is currently broken.
For the headers, we would ideally show the path within the
tree if we have it, making:
git diff a:path b:path
look the same as:
git diff a b -- path
We can't always do that (e.g., in the direct sha1/sha1 diff,
we have no path to show), in which case we should fall back
to the name that resolved to the blob (which is nonsense
from the repository's perspective, but is the best we can
do).
Aside from the fallback case in (1), none of the cases get
this right. Cases (2) and (3) always show the full
tree:path, even though we should be able to know just the
"path" portion.
Case (4) picks up the filename path, but assigns it to
_both_ sides of the diff. So this works for:
git diff tree:path path
but not for:
git diff tree:other_path path
The appropriate tests are marked to expect failure.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a sha1 lookup returns the tree path via "struct
object_context", it just copies it into a fixed-size buffer.
This means the result can be truncated, and it means our
"struct object_context" consumes a lot of stack space.
Instead, let's allocate a string on the heap. Because most
callers don't care about this information, we'll avoid doing
it by default (so they don't all have to start calling
free() on the result). There are basically two options for
the caller to signal to us that it's interested:
1. By setting a pointer to storage in the object_context.
2. By passing a flag in another parameter.
Doing (1) would match the way that sha1_object_info_extended()
works. But it would mean that every caller would have to
initialize the object_context, which they don't currently
have to do.
This patch does (2), and adds a new bit to the function's
flags field. All of the callers that look at the "path"
field are updated to pass the new flag.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The get_sha1_with_context() function zeroes out the
oc->symlink_path strbuf, but doesn't use strbuf_init() to
set up the usual invariants (like pointing to the slopbuf).
We don't actually write to the oc->symlink_path strbuf
unless we call get_tree_entry_follow_symlinks(), and that
function does initialize it. However, readers may still look
at the zero'd strbuf.
In practice this isn't a triggerable bug. The only caller
that looks at it only does so when the mode we found is 0.
This doesn't happen for non-tree-entries (where we return
S_IFINVALID). A broken tree entry could have a mode of 0,
but canon_mode() quietly rewrites that into S_IFGITLINK.
So the "0" mode should only come up when we did indeed find
a symlink.
This is mostly just an accident of how the code happens to
work, though. Let's future-proof ourselves to make sure the
strbuf is properly initialized for all calls (it's only a
few struct member assignments, not a heap allocation).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An early version of the patch to add object_context used the
name object_resolve_context. This was later shortened to
just object_context, but the "orc" variable name stuck in a
few places. Let's use "oc", which is used elsewhere in the
code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The handle_revision_arg function is rather long, and a big
chunk of it is handling the range operators. Let's pull that
out to a separate helper. While we're doing so, we can clean
up a few of the rough edges that made the flow hard to
follow:
- instead of manually restoring *dotdot (that we overwrote
with a NUL), do the real work in a sub-helper, which
makes it clear that the munge/restore lines are a
matched pair
- eliminate a goto which wasn't actually used for control
flow, but only to avoid duplicating a few lines
(instead, those lines are pushed into another helper
function)
- use early returns instead of deep nesting
- consistently name all variables for the left-hand side
of the range as "a" (rather than "this" or "from") and
the right-hand side as "b" (rather than "next", or using
the unadorned "sha1" or "flags" from the main function).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 003c84f6d (specifying ranges: we did not mean to make
".." an empty set, 2011-05-02), we treat the argument ".."
specially. We detect it by noticing that both sides of the
range are empty, and that this is a non-symmetric two-dot
range.
While correct, this makes the code overly complicated. We
can just detect ".." up front before we try to do further
parsing. This avoids having to de-munge the NUL from dotdot,
and lets us eliminate an extra const array (which we needed
only to do direct pointer comparisons).
It also removes the one code path from the range-parsing
conditional that requires us to return -1. That will make it
simpler to pull the dotdot parsing out into its own
function.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The handle_revision_arg() function has a "dotdot" variable
that it uses to find a ".." or "..." in the argument. If we
don't find one, we look for other marks, like "^!". But we
just keep re-using the "dotdot" variable, which is
confusing.
Let's introduce a separate "mark" variable that can be used
for these other marks. They still reuse the same variable,
but at least the name is no longer actively misleading.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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