Sometimes users are given a hash of an object and they want to
identify it further (ex.: Use verify-pack to find the largest blobs,
but what are these? or [1])
One might be tempted to extend git-describe to also work with blobs,
such that `git describe <blob-id>` gives a description as
'<commit-ish>:<path>'. This was implemented at [2]; as seen by the sheer
number of responses (>110), it turns out this is tricky to get right.
The hard part to get right is picking the correct 'commit-ish' as that
could be the commit that (re-)introduced the blob or the blob that
removed the blob; the blob could exist in different branches.
Junio hinted at a different approach of solving this problem, which this
patch implements. Teach the diff machinery another flag for restricting
the information to what is shown. For example:
$ ./git log --oneline --find-object=v2.0.0:Makefile
b2feb64309 Revert the whole "ask curl-config" topic for now
47fbfded53 i18n: only extract comments marked with "TRANSLATORS:"
we observe that the Makefile as shipped with 2.0 was appeared in
v1.9.2-471-g47fbfded53 and in v2.0.0-rc1-5-gb2feb6430b. The
reason why these commits both occur prior to v2.0.0 are evil
merges that are not found using this new mechanism.
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/223678/which-commit-has-this-blob
[2] https://public-inbox.org/git/20171028004419.10139-1-sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/diff-options.txt | 10 ++++++++++
diff.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++-
diff.h | 8 +++++++-
diffcore-pickaxe.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
revision.c | 3 +++
5 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index dd0dba5b1d..f9cf85db05 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -492,6 +492,15 @@ occurrences of that string did not change).
See the 'pickaxe' entry in linkgit:gitdiffcore[7] for more
information.
+--find-object=<object-id>::
+ Look for differences that change the number of occurrences of
+ the specified object. Similar to `-S`, just the argument is different
+ in that it doesn't search for a specific string but for a specific
+ object id.
++
+The object can be a blob or a submodule commit. It implies the `-t` option in
+`git-log` to also find trees.
+
--pickaxe-all::
When `-S` or `-G` finds a change, show all the changes in that
changeset, not just the files that contain the change
@@ -500,6 +509,7 @@ information.
--pickaxe-regex::
Treat the <string> given to `-S` as an extended POSIX regular
expression to match.
+
endif::git-format-patch[]
-O<orderfile>::
diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index 5508745dc8..a872bdcac1 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -4082,6 +4082,7 @@ void diff_setup(struct diff_options *options)
options->interhunkcontext = diff_interhunk_context_default;
options->ws_error_highlight = ws_error_highlight_default;
options->flags.rename_empty = 1;
+ options->objfind = NULL;
/* pathchange left =NULL by default */
options->change = diff_change;
@@ -4487,6 +4488,23 @@ static int parse_ws_error_highlight_opt(struct diff_options *opt, const char *ar
return 1;
}
+static int parse_objfind_opt(struct diff_options *opt, const char *arg)
+{
+ struct object_id oid;
+
+ if (get_oid(arg, &oid))
+ return error("unable to resolve '%s'", arg);
+
+ if (!opt->objfind)
+ opt->objfind = xcalloc(1, sizeof(*opt->objfind));
+
+ opt->pickaxe_opts |= DIFF_PICKAXE_KIND_OBJFIND;
+ opt->flags.recursive = 1;
+ opt->flags.tree_in_recursive = 1;
+ oidset_insert(opt->objfind, &oid);
+ return 1;
+}
+
int diff_opt_parse(struct diff_options *options,
const char **av, int ac, const char *prefix)
{
@@ -4736,7 +4754,8 @@ int diff_opt_parse(struct diff_options *options,
else if ((argcount = short_opt('O', av, &optarg))) {
options->orderfile = prefix_filename(prefix, optarg);
return argcount;
- }
+ } else if (skip_prefix(arg, "--find-object=", &arg))
+ return parse_objfind_opt(options, arg);
else if ((argcount = parse_long_opt("diff-filter", av, &optarg))) {
int offending = parse_diff_filter_opt(optarg, options);
if (offending)
diff --git a/diff.h b/diff.h
index 9ec4f824fe..8a56cac2ad 100644
--- a/diff.h
+++ b/diff.h
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
#include "tree-walk.h"
#include "pathspec.h"
#include "object.h"
+#include "oidset.h"
struct rev_info;
struct diff_options;
@@ -173,6 +174,8 @@ struct diff_options {
enum diff_words_type word_diff;
enum diff_submodule_format submodule_format;
+ struct oidset *objfind;
+
/* this is set by diffcore for DIFF_FORMAT_PATCH */
int found_changes;
@@ -325,8 +328,11 @@ extern void diff_setup_done(struct diff_options *);
#define DIFF_PICKAXE_KIND_S 4 /* traditional plumbing counter */
#define DIFF_PICKAXE_KIND_G 8 /* grep in the patch */
+#define DIFF_PICKAXE_KIND_OBJFIND 16 /* specific object IDs */
-#define DIFF_PICKAXE_KINDS_MASK (DIFF_PICKAXE_KIND_S | DIFF_PICKAXE_KIND_G)
+#define DIFF_PICKAXE_KINDS_MASK (DIFF_PICKAXE_KIND_S | \
+ DIFF_PICKAXE_KIND_G | \
+ DIFF_PICKAXE_KIND_OBJFIND)
#define DIFF_PICKAXE_IGNORE_CASE 32
diff --git a/diffcore-pickaxe.c b/diffcore-pickaxe.c
index 4b5d88ea46..72bb5a9514 100644
--- a/diffcore-pickaxe.c
+++ b/diffcore-pickaxe.c
@@ -124,13 +124,20 @@ static int pickaxe_match(struct diff_filepair *p, struct diff_options *o,
mmfile_t mf1, mf2;
int ret;
- if (!o->pickaxe[0])
- return 0;
-
/* ignore unmerged */
if (!DIFF_FILE_VALID(p->one) && !DIFF_FILE_VALID(p->two))
return 0;
+ if (o->objfind) {
+ return (DIFF_FILE_VALID(p->one) &&
+ oidset_contains(o->objfind, &p->one->oid)) ||
+ (DIFF_FILE_VALID(p->two) &&
+ oidset_contains(o->objfind, &p->two->oid));
+ }
+
+ if (!o->pickaxe[0])
+ return 0;
+
if (o->flags.allow_textconv) {
textconv_one = get_textconv(p->one);
textconv_two = get_textconv(p->two);
@@ -226,20 +233,22 @@ void diffcore_pickaxe(struct diff_options *o)
cflags |= REG_ICASE;
regcomp_or_die(®ex, needle, cflags);
regexp = ®ex;
- } else if (o->pickaxe_opts & DIFF_PICKAXE_IGNORE_CASE &&
- has_non_ascii(needle)) {
- struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
- int cflags = REG_NEWLINE | REG_ICASE;
-
- basic_regex_quote_buf(&sb, needle);
- regcomp_or_die(®ex, sb.buf, cflags);
- strbuf_release(&sb);
- regexp = ®ex;
- } else {
- kws = kwsalloc(o->pickaxe_opts & DIFF_PICKAXE_IGNORE_CASE
- ? tolower_trans_tbl : NULL);
- kwsincr(kws, needle, strlen(needle));
- kwsprep(kws);
+ } else if (opts & DIFF_PICKAXE_KIND_S) {
+ if (o->pickaxe_opts & DIFF_PICKAXE_IGNORE_CASE &&
+ has_non_ascii(needle)) {
+ struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
+ int cflags = REG_NEWLINE | REG_ICASE;
+
+ basic_regex_quote_buf(&sb, needle);
+ regcomp_or_die(®ex, sb.buf, cflags);
+ strbuf_release(&sb);
+ regexp = ®ex;
+ } else {
+ kws = kwsalloc(o->pickaxe_opts & DIFF_PICKAXE_IGNORE_CASE
+ ? tolower_trans_tbl : NULL);
+ kwsincr(kws, needle, strlen(needle));
+ kwsprep(kws);
+ }
}
/* Might want to warn when both S and G are on; I don't care... */
@@ -248,7 +257,7 @@ void diffcore_pickaxe(struct diff_options *o)
if (regexp)
regfree(regexp);
- else
+ if (kws)
kwsfree(kws);
return;
}
diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index 5d11ecaf27..30f65b3bbd 100644
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c
@@ -2412,6 +2412,9 @@ int setup_revisions(int argc, const char **argv, struct rev_info *revs, struct s
revs->diffopt.flags.follow_renames)
revs->diff = 1;
+ if (revs->diffopt.objfind)
+ revs->simplify_history = 0;
+
if (revs->topo_order)
revs->limited = 1;
--
2.15.1.620.gb9897f4670-goog
