In addition to the points raised by Matthieu and Thomas... On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Yurii Shevtsov <ungetch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > make "git diff --no-index $directory $file" DWIM better. Specify the area affected by the change, followed by a colon, followed by the change summary. Drop the period at the end. So, something like: diff: improve '--no-index <directory> <file>' DWIMing > Changes 'git diff --no-index $directory $file' behaviour. > Now it is transformed to 'git diff --no-index $directory/&file $file' > instead of throwing an error. Write in imperative mood, so "Change" rather than "Changes". By itself, the first sentence isn't saying much; it would read better if you combined the two sentences into one. > Signed-off-by: Yurii Shevtsov <ungetch <at> gmail.com> > --- > diff --git a/diff-no-index.c b/diff-no-index.c > index 265709b..4e71b36 100644 > --- a/diff-no-index.c > +++ b/diff-no-index.c > @@ -97,8 +97,25 @@ static int queue_diff(struct diff_options *o, > if (get_mode(name1, &mode1) || get_mode(name2, &mode2)) > return -1; > > - if (mode1 && mode2 && S_ISDIR(mode1) != S_ISDIR(mode2)) > - return error("file/directory conflict: %s, %s", name1, name2); > + if (mode1 && mode2 && S_ISDIR(mode1) != S_ISDIR(mode2)) { > + struct strbuf dirnfile; Is this name supposed to stand for "dir'n'file", a shorthand for "dir-and-file"? Perhaps a simpler more idiomatic name such as "path" would suffice. Also, you can initialize the strbuf here at point of declaration: struct strbuf path = STRBUF_INIT; > + const char *dir, *file; > + char *filename; > + int ret = 0; > + > + dir = S_ISDIR(mode1) ? name1 : name2; > + file = (dir == name1) ? name2 : name1; > + strbuf_init(&dirnfile, strlen(name1) + strlen(name2) + 2); Unless this is a performance critical loop where you want to avoid multiple re-allocations, it's customary to pass 0 for the second argument. Doing so makes the code a bit easier to read and understand, and avoids questions like this one: Why are you adding 2 to the requested length? I presume that you're taking the "/" and NUL into account, however, strbuf takes NUL into account on its own as part of its contract, so you probably wanted to add only 1. > + strbuf_addstr(&dirnfile, dir); > + if (dirnfile.buf[dirnfile.len - 1] != '/') I don't know how others feel about it, but it makes me a bit uncomfortable to see potential access of array item -1. I suppose, in this case, neither name will be zero-length, however, I'd still feel more comfortable seeing that documented formally, either via assert(): assert(dirnfile.len > 0); if (dirnfile.buf[dirnfile.len - 1] != '/') or: if (dirnfile.len > 0 && dirnfile.buf[dirnfile.len - 1] != '/') > + strbuf_addch(&dirnfile, '/'); > + filename = strrchr(file, '/'); > + strbuf_addstr(&dirnfile, filename ? (filename + 1) : file); > + ret = queue_diff(o, dirnfile.buf, file); > + strbuf_release(&dirnfile); > + > + return ret; > + } > > if (S_ISDIR(mode1) || S_ISDIR(mode2)) { > struct strbuf buffer1 = STRBUF_INIT; > -- > > I hope I understood task correct. I think this patch requires writing > additional tests, so that's what I'm going to do now. > -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html