From: Chris Torek <chris.torek@xxxxxxxxx>
When git diff is given a symmetric difference A...B, it chooses
some merge base from the two specified commits (as documented).
This fails, however, if there is *no* merge base: instead, you
see the differences between A and B, which is certainly not what
is expected.
Moreover, if additional revisions are specified on the command
line ("git diff A...B C"), the results get a bit weird:
* If there is a symmetric difference merge base, this is used
as the left side of the diff. The last final ref is used as
the right side.
* If there is no merge base, the symmetric status is completely
lost. We will produce a combined diff instead.
Similar weirdness occurs if you use, e.g., "git diff C A...B D".
Likewise, using multiple two-dot ranges, or tossing extra
revision specifiers into the command line with two-dot ranges,
or mixing two and three dot ranges, all produce nonsense.
To avoid all this, add a routine to catch the range cases and
verify that that the arguments make sense. As a side effect,
produce a warning showing *which* merge base is being used when
there are multiple choices; die if there is no merge base.
Signed-off-by: Chris Torek <chris.torek@xxxxxxxxx>
---
builtin/diff.c | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
t/t4068-diff-symmetric.sh | 91 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 202 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
create mode 100755 t/t4068-diff-symmetric.sh
diff --git a/builtin/diff.c b/builtin/diff.c
index 8537b17bd5e..3d33a9231ae 100644
--- a/builtin/diff.c
+++ b/builtin/diff.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
#define USE_THE_INDEX_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS
#include "cache.h"
#include "config.h"
+#include "ewah/ewok.h"
#include "lockfile.h"
#include "color.h"
#include "commit.h"
@@ -254,6 +255,108 @@ static int builtin_diff_files(struct rev_info *revs, int argc, const char **argv
return run_diff_files(revs, options);
}
+struct symdiff {
+ struct bitmap *skip;
+ int warn;
+ const char *base, *left, *right;
+};
+
+/*
+ * Check for symmetric-difference arguments, and if present, arrange
+ * everything we need to know to handle them correctly. As a bonus,
+ * weed out all bogus range-based revision specifications, e.g.,
+ * "git diff A..B C..D" or "git diff A..B C" get rejected.
+ *
+ * For an actual symmetric diff, *symdiff is set this way:
+ *
+ * - its skip is non-NULL and marks *all* rev->pending.objects[i]
+ * indices that the caller should ignore (extra merge bases, of
+ * which there might be many, and A in A...B). Note that the
+ * chosen merge base and right side are NOT marked.
+ * - warn is set if there are multiple merge bases.
+ * - base, left, and right point to the names to use in a
+ * warning about multiple merge bases.
+ *
+ * If there is no symmetric diff argument, sym->skip is NULL and
+ * sym->warn is cleared. The remaining fields are not set.
+ */
+static void symdiff_prepare(struct rev_info *rev, struct symdiff *sym)
+{
+ int i, is_symdiff = 0, basecount = 0, othercount = 0;
+ int lpos = -1, rpos = -1, basepos = -1;
+ struct bitmap *map = NULL;
+
+ /*
+ * Use the whence fields to find merge bases and left and
+ * right parts of symmetric difference, so that we do not
+ * depend on the order that revisions are parsed. If there
+ * are any revs that aren't from these sources, we have a
+ * "git diff C A...B" or "git diff A...B C" case. Or we
+ * could even get "git diff A...B C...E", for instance.
+ *
+ * If we don't have just one merge base, we pick one
+ * at random.
+ *
+ * NB: REV_CMD_LEFT, REV_CMD_RIGHT are also used for A..B,
+ * so we must check for SYMMETRIC_LEFT too. The two arrays
+ * rev->pending.objects and rev->cmdline.rev are parallel.
+ */
+ for (i = 0; i < rev->cmdline.nr; i++) {
+ struct object *obj = rev->pending.objects[i].item;
+ switch (rev->cmdline.rev[i].whence) {
+ case REV_CMD_MERGE_BASE:
+ if (basepos < 0)
+ basepos = i;
+ basecount++;
+ break; /* do mark all bases */
+ case REV_CMD_LEFT:
+ if (lpos > 0)
+ usage(builtin_diff_usage);
+ lpos = i;
+ if (obj->flags & SYMMETRIC_LEFT) {
+ is_symdiff = 1;
+ break; /* do mark A */
+ }
+ continue;
+ case REV_CMD_RIGHT:
+ if (rpos > 0)
+ usage(builtin_diff_usage);
+ rpos = i;
+ continue; /* don't mark B */
+ case REV_CMD_PARENTS_ONLY:
+ case REV_CMD_REF:
+ case REV_CMD_REV:
+ othercount++;
+ continue;
+ }
+ if (map == NULL)
+ map = bitmap_new();
+ bitmap_set(map, i);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Forbid any additional revs for both A...B and A..B.
+ */
+ if (lpos >= 0 && othercount > 0)
+ usage(builtin_diff_usage);
+
+ if (!is_symdiff) {
+ bitmap_free(map);
+ sym->warn = 0;
+ sym->skip = NULL;
+ return;
+ }
+
+ sym->left = rev->pending.objects[lpos].name;
+ sym->right = rev->pending.objects[rpos].name;
+ sym->base = rev->pending.objects[basepos].name;
+ if (basecount == 0)
+ die(_("%s...%s: no merge base"), sym->left, sym->right);
+ bitmap_unset(map, basepos); /* unmark the base we want */
+ sym->warn = basecount > 1;
+ sym->skip = map;
+}
+
int cmd_diff(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
{
int i;
@@ -263,6 +366,7 @@ int cmd_diff(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
struct object_array_entry *blob[2];
int nongit = 0, no_index = 0;
int result = 0;
+ struct symdiff sdiff;
/*
* We could get N tree-ish in the rev.pending_objects list.
@@ -382,6 +486,7 @@ int cmd_diff(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
}
}
+ symdiff_prepare(&rev, &sdiff);
for (i = 0; i < rev.pending.nr; i++) {
struct object_array_entry *entry = &rev.pending.objects[i];
struct object *obj = entry->item;
@@ -396,6 +501,8 @@ int cmd_diff(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
obj = &get_commit_tree(((struct commit *)obj))->object;
if (obj->type == OBJ_TREE) {
+ if (sdiff.skip && bitmap_get(sdiff.skip, i))
+ continue;
obj->flags |= flags;
add_object_array(obj, name, &ent);
} else if (obj->type == OBJ_BLOB) {
@@ -437,21 +544,12 @@ int cmd_diff(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
usage(builtin_diff_usage);
else if (ent.nr == 1)
result = builtin_diff_index(&rev, argc, argv);
- else if (ent.nr == 2)
+ else if (ent.nr == 2) {
+ if (sdiff.warn)
+ warning(_("%s...%s: multiple merge bases, using %s"),
+ sdiff.left, sdiff.right, sdiff.base);
result = builtin_diff_tree(&rev, argc, argv,
&ent.objects[0], &ent.objects[1]);
- else if (ent.objects[0].item->flags & UNINTERESTING) {
- /*
- * diff A...B where there is at least one merge base
- * between A and B. We have ent.objects[0] ==
- * merge-base, ent.objects[ents-2] == A, and
- * ent.objects[ents-1] == B. Show diff between the
- * base and B. Note that we pick one merge base at
- * random if there are more than one.
- */
- result = builtin_diff_tree(&rev, argc, argv,
- &ent.objects[0],
- &ent.objects[ent.nr-1]);
} else
result = builtin_diff_combined(&rev, argc, argv,
ent.objects, ent.nr);
diff --git a/t/t4068-diff-symmetric.sh b/t/t4068-diff-symmetric.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..dd60da0294e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t4068-diff-symmetric.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='behavior of diff with symmetric-diff setups'
+
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+# build these situations:
+# - normal merge with one merge base (b1...b2);
+# - criss-cross merge ie 2 merge bases (b1...master);
+# - disjoint subgraph (orphan branch, b3...master).
+#
+# B---E <-- master
+# / \ /
+# A X
+# \ / \
+# C---D--G <-- br1
+# \ /
+# ---F <-- br2
+#
+# H <-- br3
+#
+# We put files into a few commits so that we can verify the
+# output as well.
+
+test_expect_success setup '
+ git commit --allow-empty -m A &&
+ echo b >b &&
+ git add b &&
+ git commit -m B &&
+ git checkout -b br1 HEAD^ &&
+ echo c >c &&
+ git add c &&
+ git commit -m C &&
+ git tag commit-C &&
+ git merge -m D master &&
+ git tag commit-D &&
+ git checkout master &&
+ git merge -m E commit-C &&
+ git checkout -b br2 commit-C &&
+ echo f >f &&
+ git add f &&
+ git commit -m F &&
+ git checkout br1 &&
+ git merge -m G br2 &&
+ git checkout --orphan br3 &&
+ git commit -m H
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'diff with one merge base' '
+ git diff commit-D...br1 >tmp &&
+ tail -n 1 tmp >actual &&
+ echo +f >expect &&
+ test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+# The output (in tmp) can have +b or +c depending
+# on which merge base (commit B or C) is picked.
+# It should have one of those two, which comes out
+# to seven lines.
+test_expect_success 'diff with two merge bases' '
+ git diff br1...master >tmp 2>err &&
+ test_line_count = 7 tmp &&
+ test_line_count = 1 err
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'diff with no merge bases' '
+ test_must_fail git diff br2...br3 >tmp 2>err &&
+ test_i18ngrep "fatal: br2...br3: no merge base" err
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'diff with too many symmetric differences' '
+ test_must_fail git diff br1...master br2...br3 >tmp 2>err &&
+ test_i18ngrep "usage" err
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'diff with symmetric difference and extraneous arg' '
+ test_must_fail git diff master br1...master >tmp 2>err &&
+ test_i18ngrep "usage" err
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'diff with two ranges' '
+ test_must_fail git diff master br1..master br2..br3 >tmp 2>err &&
+ test_i18ngrep "usage" err
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'diff with ranges and extra arg' '
+ test_must_fail git diff master br1..master commit-D >tmp 2>err &&
+ test_i18ngrep "usage" err
+'
+
+test_done
--
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