On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 4:03 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When using git-blame lots of lines contain redundant information, for > example in hunks that consist of multiple lines, the metadata (commit > name, author, date) are repeated. A reader may not be interested in those, > so offer an option to color the information that is repeated from the > previous line differently. > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > diff --git a/builtin/blame.c b/builtin/blame.c > @@ -367,6 +370,28 @@ static void emit_porcelain(struct blame_scoreboard *sb, struct blame_entry *ent, > +static inline void colors_unset(const char **use_color, const char **reset_color) > +{ > + *use_color = ""; > + *reset_color = ""; > +} > + > +static inline void colors_set(const char **use_color, const char **reset_color) > +{ > + *use_color = repeated_meta_color; > + *reset_color = GIT_COLOR_RESET; > +} > + > +static void setup_line_color(int opt, int cnt, > + const char **use_color, > + const char **reset_color) > +{ > + colors_unset(use_color, reset_color); > + > + if ((opt & OUTPUT_COLOR_LINE) && cnt > 0) > + colors_set(use_color, reset_color); > +} I'm not convinced that this colors_unset() / colors_set() / setup_line_color() abstraction is buying much. With this abstraction, I found the code more difficult to reason about than if the colors were just set/unset manually in the code which needs the colors. I *could* perhaps imagine setup_line_color() existing as a separate function since it is slightly more complex than the other two, but as it has only a single caller through all patches, even that may not be sufficient to warrant its existence. > @@ -383,6 +408,7 @@ static void emit_other(struct blame_scoreboard *sb, struct blame_entry *ent, int > for (cnt = 0; cnt < ent->num_lines; cnt++) { > char ch; > int length = (opt & OUTPUT_LONG_OBJECT_NAME) ? GIT_SHA1_HEXSZ : abbrev; > + const char *col, *rcol; I can't help but read these as "column" and "[r]column"; the former, especially, is just too ingrained to interpret it any other way. Perhaps call these "color" and "reset" instead? > @@ -607,6 +636,12 @@ static int git_blame_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb) > + if (!strcmp(var, "color.blame.repeatedmeta")) { > + if (color_parse_mem(value, strlen(value), repeated_meta_color)) > + warning(_("ignore invalid color '%s' in color.blame.repeatedMeta"), > + value); Does this need to say "ignore"? If you drop that word, you still have a valid warning message. > + return 0; > + } > @@ -681,6 +716,7 @@ int cmd_blame(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) > OPT_BIT('s', NULL, &output_option, N_("Suppress author name and timestamp (Default: off)"), OUTPUT_NO_AUTHOR), > OPT_BIT('e', "show-email", &output_option, N_("Show author email instead of name (Default: off)"), OUTPUT_SHOW_EMAIL), > OPT_BIT('w', NULL, &xdl_opts, N_("Ignore whitespace differences"), XDF_IGNORE_WHITESPACE), > + OPT_BIT(0, "color-lines", &output_option, N_("color redundant metadata from previous line"), OUTPUT_COLOR_LINE), Not sure what this help message means. Do you mean "color redundant ... _differently_ ..."? Or "_dim_ redundant..."? > diff --git a/t/t8012-blame-colors.sh b/t/t8012-blame-colors.sh > @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ > +#!/bin/sh > + > +test_description='colored git blame' > +. ./test-lib.sh > + > +PROG='git blame -c' > +. "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/annotate-tests.sh > + > +test_expect_success 'colored blame colors continuous lines' ' What are "continuous lines"? Did you mean "contiguous"? > + git blame --abbrev=12 --color-lines hello.c >actual.raw && > + test_decode_color <actual.raw >actual && > + grep "<BOLD;BLACK>(F" actual > F.expect && > + grep "<BOLD;BLACK>(H" actual > H.expect && > + test_line_count = 2 F.expect && > + test_line_count = 3 H.expect > +'