Hi Eric, On Mon, 16 Jul 2018, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 7:26 AM Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget > <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This change brings `git range-diff` yet another step closer to > > feature parity with tbdiff: it now shows the oneline, too, and indicates > > with `=` when the commits have identical diffs. > > > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > > --- > > diff --git a/range-diff.c b/range-diff.c > > @@ -251,9 +253,57 @@ static void get_correspondences(struct string_list *a, struct string_list *b, > > +static void output_pair_header(struct strbuf *buf, > > + struct patch_util *a_util, > > + struct patch_util *b_util) > > { > > - return find_unique_abbrev(&util->oid, DEFAULT_ABBREV); > > + static char *dashes; > > + struct object_id *oid = a_util ? &a_util->oid : &b_util->oid; > > + struct commit *commit; > > + > > + if (!dashes) { > > + char *p; > > + > > + dashes = xstrdup(find_unique_abbrev(oid, DEFAULT_ABBREV)); > > It's nice to see that the bulk of the range-diff functionality has > been libified in this re-roll (residing in range-diff.c rather than Can we *please* stop calling it "re-roll"? Thanks. (Or are you really "never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down"?) > builtin/range-diff.c as in earlier versions), so it's somewhat > surprising to see libified code holding onto the 'dashes' buffer like > this in a static variable. An alternative would have been for the > caller to pass in the same buffer to output_pair_header() for re-use, > and then dispose of it at the end of processing. Sure, to be honest, I had completely forgotten about what I did there, and had to read up on it to fix it. > > > + for (p = dashes; *p; p++) > > + *p = '-'; > > + } > > + > > + strbuf_reset(buf); > > ...much like 'buf' is allocated by the caller, passed in and re-used > for each invocation, then released by the caller at the end. Yep, I now pass in another strbuf, `dashes`. Thanks, Dscho